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A number of Canadian organisations have urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government to develop a programme that guarantees revenues from carbon pricing as soon as possible to accelerate the country’s decarbonisation and global competitiveness for investment.

A cap-and-trade programme devised by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration will feature design elements such as auctions and price stability mechanisms, as well as automatically allow UN offsetting methodologies to generate compliance credits under the regime, according to a draft proposal seen by Carbon Pulse.

Amazon nations' leaders have gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém for a rare summit about the future of the world's largest rainforest amid growing concern over the global climate emergency. The environmental summit convened by Brazil’s leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, represents a handbrake turn in Brazilian government policy after four years of Amazon destruction under the country's previous leader, Jair Bolsonaro. In the run-up to the summit, thousands of Indigenous people gathered to protest and demand the government pledge a greater commitment towards protecting the rainforest. Activists have warned Brazil's ultra-right congress could prevent the president from carrying out his ambitious environmental agenda

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Global average temperature exceeded previous record by substantial margin

July has been confirmed as the hottest month on record globally after several heatwaves in parts of Europe, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).

The global average temperature was 16.95C last month, surpassing the previous record set in 2019 by a substantial 0.33C. Temperatures exceeded 40C last week in several countries across Europe including Greece, France, Italy and Spain.

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A Toronto-headquartered voluntary carbon investor will develop its first nature-based removal credits through a reforestation project in India, the company announced Tuesday.

Wild Justice says government initiative to relocate broods away from grouse moors ‘rewards past crimes’ of illegal killing

A £900,000 government scheme to “meddle” with nests of hen harriers is a waste of money and rewards those who kill them, a wildlife campaign group has said.

The claims are contained in a report produced by Wild Justice and released to coincide with the Glorious Twelfth, the official start of the grouse shooting season, on Saturday.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva promises to repair damage done by Bolsonaro and reach zero deforestation by 2030

The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has vowed to haul the Amazon out of centuries of violence, economic “plundering” and environmental devastation and into “a new Amazon dream”, at the start of a major regional summit on the world’s largest rainforest.

Addressing South American leaders gathered in the Brazilian city of Belém, Lula offered a bold blueprint for the future of the Amazon, a 6.7m sq km region that is home to nearly 50 million people spread across eight countries and one territory.

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Three countries from the Global South will be chosen to take part and receive support in developing tools and guidance for integrating Article 6 emission trade approaches into their national climate strategies, according to a funding call issued on Monday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values increased to nearly two-month highs in recent days as sellers disappeared and market participants prepared for the release of updated modelling inputs that will be used to evaluate strengthening the programme in a forthcoming rulemaking.

Experts have expressed uncertainty over the future use of Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) in the voluntary carbon market in the wake of a UN statement suggesting transactions of the Kyoto-era units will only be possible for a few more weeks.

The US national weather service detected at least one tornado as severe storms struck southern Indiana. Video footage taken by Salem's fire department shows gusts of wind and lightning hitting the city, with wind speeds reaching 90mph. Storms across eastern US have caused damage to homes and triggered power cuts. More widespread rain and thunderstorms are expected

• Storms in US north-east leave two dead and lead to thousands of flight cancellations

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Experts say larger-than-normal hole could cause further warming of Southern Ocean and heighten damaging effects of 2022 Tonga volcano eruption

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The hole in the ozone layer has begun to form early this year, prompting warnings that a larger-than-average hole may further warm the Southern Ocean while the level of Antarctic sea ice is at a record low.

Satellite data from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts suggests the hole has already begun to form over Antarctica.

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Reef experts say an El Niño climate pattern could take hold this summer, raising the risk of another mass bleaching event further

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A recovery in the number of corals growing on the Great Barrier Reef over recent years has paused, with government scientists blaming bleaching, disease and attacks by starfish.

Results from the latest annual surveys of more than 100 individual reefs show a small drop in coral cover over the northern and central parts of the reef over the past year.

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Victim, 50, in critical condition as eight shark attacks have been recorded off the waters of New York in the past year

A 50-year-old woman was bit by a shark on Monday evening off New York’s Rockaway beach and is in critical condition after only the latest in a series of attacks.

The attack – or “encounter”, as authorities prefer to call it – was reported at about 5.49pm, according to the New York police department.

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The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon monument – home to several Native tribes – will be protected from uranium mining

Joe Biden will designate a “nearly 1m acres” expanse around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument, protecting the region from future uranium mining.

The designation, which Biden is expected to announce on Tuesday comes after years-long lobbying by tribal leaders and local environmentalists to block mining projects that they say would damage the Colorado River watershed and important cultural sites.

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Retirement of carbon credits from voluntary standards will hit a record high this year if past trends hold, according to forecast from an advisory group that also noted that the surplus of available credits will continue to build.

Three major corporations have partnered to reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation in India, aiming to cover around 25,000 hectares of land from this year.

European carbon prices gravitated back towards a key technical and psychological level on Tuesday morning, after having dipped below that marker in late trading on Monday, underlining the market's relative lack of liquidity and direction while traders awaited publication of updated position data.