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Emissions under the EU ETS are likely to increase in 2022 as thermal generation increases, but also as more industrial companies are turning to petroleum-based fuels as an alternative to natural gas, according to bank analysts.

Though they are the most well known, magpies are not the only Australian swoopers

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For the first time in Sean Dooley’s two decades of bird watching, he has been swooped twice this year by a nesting male magpie.

The magpie had met its match, however. Dooley works at Bird Life Australia, an organisation dedicated to conserving native birds and their habitats, and knows how to avoid a swoop without damage to the person or bird.

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Standardised nature-based offsets slumped lower over the past week as the wider marco-economic gloom and the strength of the dollar weighed on the market.

Standardised nature-based offsets slumped lower over the past week as the wider marco-economic gloom and the strength of the dollar weighed on the market.

Low-cost air carrier EasyJet on Monday announced it will soon stop automatically purchasing carbon credits to offset flight emissions as part of its net zero roadmap, and instead focus on a suite of other GHG mitigation strategies in its SBTi-aligned plan.

Low-cost air carrier EasyJet on Monday announced it will soon stop automatically purchasing carbon credits to offset flight emissions as part of its net zero roadmap, and instead focus on a suite of other GHG mitigation strategies in its SBTi-aligned plan.

The newly-appointed UK government aims complete its 'pro-business' net zero review by the end of the year, it said at the launch of the initiative on Monday as the main opposition party laid out a competing vision.

The newly-appointed UK government aims complete its 'pro-business' net zero review by the end of the year, it said at the launch of the initiative on Monday as the main opposition party laid out a competing vision.

The Artemis-I vehicle will be pulled off the launch pad in Florida to protect it from storm forces.

Prominent members of farmers’ union express dismay after comments by Minette Batters

Farmers are threatening to quit the National Farmers’ Union after its leader said she supported the UK government’s apparent move to scrap post-Brexit nature subsidies.

This weekend, the Observer revealed that the government was poised to abandon the “Brexit bonus”, which would have paid farmers and landowners to enhance nature, in what wildlife groups have described as an “all-out attack” on the environment.

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Nature protection rules in proposed investment zones would in effect be suspended

There was little room for doubt about the reaction to the prime minister’s plans to scrap environmental regulations this weekend. “Make no mistake, we are angry. This government has today launched an attack on nature,” tweeted the RSPB, its most forceful political intervention in recent memory.

Liz Truss’s proposals to create investment zones, where green rules on nature protection would in effect be suspended, represented a step too far for some of Britain’s biggest environment charities. “As of today, from Cornwall to Cumbria, Norfolk to Nottingham, wildlife is facing one of the greatest threats it’s faced in decades,” the RSPB went on.

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Key European lawmakers from four major parties have endorsed a provisional stance that would help finance the REPowerEU strategy with €20 billion worth of carbon allowance sales solely sourced from frontloaded member state auctions spread over three years, a parliamentary source told Carbon Pulse.

Stars of film about 500-mile trek to Scotland for Cop26 hit the road again for Bristol premiere

There will be no red carpet, no designer outfits and definitely no limousines. In fact, the stars of the film have shunned any sort of mechanical transport and instead walked 135 miles from London to Bristol for the premiere, and are asking their audience to accompany them by foot on their last leg before the screening.

The film, which is being premiered on the harbourside in Bristol on Tuesday evening, is Of Walking on Thin Ice (Camino to Cop26), which tells the story of a group of climate pilgrims who hiked 500 miles from the south of England to Scotland for last year’s climate conference in Glasgow.

For more details and tickets visit the Encounters film festival website.

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Super Typhoon Noru tore its way out of the northern Philippines on Monday, leaving casualties, floods and power outages. Government work and classes at schools have been suspended in the capital and beyond

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There is a greater interoperability between compliance and voluntary carbon markets emerging as both governments and corporates beef up net zero commitments, but stronger policy signals and targets will be needed if the energy transition is to succeed, a panel of speakers at an oil and gas conference in Singapore claimed today.

EUA prices recovered from a sharply lower open on Monday as traders covered short positions, and extended gains after the strongest auction result in a month, while energy markets were weaker.

Exclusive: major supplier to brands including KFC and Nando’s used offshore companies allowing them to reduce UK tax payments, investigation suggests

The global megacompanies supplying some of Britain’s most popular meat brands, including KFC, Nando’s chicken and Sainsbury’s organic range, appear to have been using offshore companies allowing them to avoiding paying millions of pounds in tax in the UK.

An investigation by the Guardian and Lighthouse Reports has found that two companies – Anglo Beef Processors UK and Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation (owned by Brazilian beef giant JBS) – appear to have reduced their tax bill by structuring their companies and loans in a way that allows them to take advantage of different tax systems, in what one expert has described as “aggressive tax avoidance”.

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A carbon management platform has launched a new product to help financial institutions track their indirect investment emissions in light of a range of disclosure regulations being developed worldwide.

Australia has launched a review of its beef herd carbon offset method after the Emissions Reductions Assurance Committee (ERAC) questioned whether projects still meet additionality criteria.

China's aviation regulator has unveiled an action plan to encourage green development in the sector, though it made no mention of the nation's attitude towards participation in ICAO's CORSIA offsetting programme covering international flights.