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Stakeholders are advocating for California regulator ARB to increase the stringency or the long-term certainty of its WCI-linked cap-and-trade programme in the 2022 Scoping Plan, while power utilities and an oil major raised reliability and legality questions about current scenarios, public comments show.

Many plants are really good at withstanding bushfires, but the combination of drought, heatwaves and pest insects under climate change may push them to the brink. Rachael Helene Nolan, Postdoctoral research fellow, Western Sydney University Andrea Leigh, Associate Professor, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney Mark Ooi, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW Ross Bradstock, Emeritus professor, University of Wollongong Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Tom Fairman, Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne Víctor Resco de Dios, Profesor de Incendios y Cambio Global en PVCF-Agrotecnio, Universitat de Lleida Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

If the world is to adapt to sea level rise with minimal cost, we must address the uncertainty surrounding Antarctica’s melting ice sheet. This requires significant investment in scientific capacity. Chen Zhao, Research associate, University of Tasmania Rupert Gladstone, Adjunct professor, University of Lapland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Prices for exchange-traded, standardised voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) rose more quickly among nature-based products than CORSIA-qualified credits for the second straight week, reasserting a premium in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) that had evaporated earlier this month. A Carbon Pulse subscription is required to read this content. Subscribe today to access our unrivalled news and […]

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Mark Hankinson denies encouraging others to break the law during private webinars which were leaked online.

Spain wants the EU to adopt measures to curb financial speculation in the ETS, outlining a number of proposals to calm the surging energy prices that are rattling the bloc currently.

PM’s warning to world’s richest countries comes amid suggestions US could commit more funds

Boris Johnson has warned the world’s rich countries that “history will judge”, if they fail to act now to tackle the climate crisis, as US climate envoy John Kerry suggested President Biden was poised to commit more funds to the fight.

At the UN general assembly in New York, the prime minister urged other developed countries to increase their contributions, to help meet the target of $100bn (£73bn) in climate financing set more than a decade ago.

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Poland has vowed to continue extracting coal at its Turow mine after being ordered by Europe's top court to pay daily fines of €500,000 to the European Commission over the government's refusal to adhere to an earlier ruling.

Speaking to journalists in New York at the start of a three-day visit to the US, the UK prime minister urged developed countries to come forward with additional funding to help tackle the climate crisis. 'It is the developed world that for over 200 years has put the carbon [dioxide] in the atmosphere, so it really is up to us to help them,' he said.

The comments came as the UK finalised preparations for hosting the Cop26 summit in Glasgow in November

• Meeting Cop26 finance goals ‘going to be tough’, says Boris Johnson

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The UK prime minister says he is "increasingly frustrated" at support offered to poorer countries.

Rising gas prices in a climate emergency is not the time for the rigid application of free-market principles

There is a level of government complacency about energy price shocks. Ministers think the best course of action is to just accept them. Wholesale gas prices are now more than five times their level two years ago, raising the prospect that household bills will rise by 12% next month. Shoppers could also face empty supermarket shelves as it becomes unprofitable to produce the dry ice and carbon dioxide needed to store meat products. If the energy crunch continues, industry warns, a 1970s-style three-day week might have to be introduced.

The government response has been familiar: deny the problem, deflect responsibility for failure and delay taking action. This strategy is a reminder of the importance of perceptions in a crisis. If something feels like a crisis, it is effectively a crisis. That is why perhaps Kwasi Kwarteng, the business secretary, says there is “no question of the lights going out, of people being unable to heat their homes”. But what if people cannot afford the energy costs to heat and light their homes? About 85% of the UK’s domestic heating comes from natural gas. Fuel poverty is a real issue, especially when millions of workers are facing cuts to universal credit and a hike in national insurance. Price caps help poorer people afford necessities of life such as gas – but there’s no sign that ministers think the hardship merits more generous help.

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Sweden-controlled utility Vattenfall has pledged to phase out coal by 2030 as part of a ramping up of its voluntary emissions reduction pledge designed to align with a 1.5C global warming scenario.

From Western Australia to Norway, photographers around the world capture animals and plants in their natural environment – and under threat from human activity

• Deep impact: the underwater photographers bringing the ocean’s silent struggle to life

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Clean energy investors call on energy ministers to reject controversial energy market reforms, including a plan to subsidise coal generators.

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Tech companies poured $65m into lobbying in 2020 – but only 6% of their lobbying activity is targeted at climate policy

The world’s biggest tech companies are coming out with bold commitments to tackle their climate impact but when it comes to using their corporate muscle to advocate for stronger climate policies, their engagement is almost nonexistent, according to a new report.

Apple, Amazon, Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Facebook and Microsoft poured around $65m into lobbying in 2020, but an average of only 6% of their lobbying activity between July 2020 and June 2021 was related to climate policy, according to an analysis from the thinktank InfluenceMap, which tracked companies’ self-reported lobbying on federal legislation.

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Officials looking at emergency funding to help large energy firms rescue customers of rival suppliers who have gone bust

Energy companies willing to rescue the customers of rival suppliers that go bust amid the gas and electricity market crisis could get state-backed loans in a scheme under government consideration.

The Guardian understands that officials are looking at the emergency funding to help the UK’s large suppliers pick up potentially millions of unprofitable customers this winter as record prices threaten to decimate the energy market.

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Carbon clawed back early losses on Monday after natural gas prices jumped on the news that Russia's Gazprom declined to book additional gas capacity through Ukraine in October.