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Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault launched consultations to develop a Clean Electricity Standard (CES) on Tuesday, reiterating the goal to achieve a net zero electricity grid by 2035 and noting the potential to use carbon offsets within policy design.

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A tremendous build-out of clean energy and massive shift to low-carbon technologies underpin California’s climate pathways, including over 100 million tonnes of Direct Air Capture (DAC), according to initial modelling results released Tuesday as part of the 2022 Scoping Plan that provides a roadmap for future policy development.

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A carbon price at €100/tonne would incentivise a switch from fossil-based to renewable hydrogen in the EU, although priority must be on rolling out the technology to decarbonise industries that need green molecules the most, such as aviation, shipping, heavy industry, a conference heard on Tuesday.

California regulator ARB this week calculated a lower level for the WCI carbon market allowance glut than an advisory committee, as the agency reiterated it will await the results of the 2022 Scoping Plan update to explore changes to the programme.

Germany-based RWE, the EU’s top corporate emitter, faces large risks in the event of an escalation of the war in Ukraine and believes that German industry would be hit very hard by cuts in Russian energy imports, the firm said in its full-year results on Tuesday.

EU finance ministers on Tuesday forged a unified position on a proposed Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), defusing fears that bloc's Fit for 55 climate package might be delayed or watered down due to the European energy crisis or Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The New York State Senate on Monday approved a budget resolution that includes language to implement a low-carbon fuel standard (LCFS), though some environmental groups are still sternly opposed to the market-based programme.

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As floods follow fires, we need to hold our leaders’ feet to the flames – or, for that matter, to the water

Environmentalists once saw abstraction as the biggest obstacle to climate action. How, they wondered, could one focus the public on the distant future?

Today, we confront the opposite problem, with the very immediacy of the crisis generating a strange paralysis.

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Rewilding programme marks the ‘most significant step’ in ensuring the critically endangered species’ survival

Five mountain bongos have been released into a sanctuary in Kenya, a milestone in the fight for the animals’ survival with fewer than 100 left in the wild

Considered critically endangered, the chestnut-coloured mountain bongo is one of the largest forest antelopes and native to the equatorial forests of Mount Kenya, Eburu, Mau and Aberdares. IUCN predicts their numbers will probably continue to decline without direct action. A recent wildlife census in Kenya counted just 96 mountain bongos in the wild.

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The new style of electricity pylon is designed to reduce the impact on the local environment.

Exclusive: Survey in constituencies with fracking potential show MPs against it or wary of commenting

• Tory MPs in north and south fear political impact

The prospect of fracking in England has been dealt another blow as only a handful of MPs for constituencies with exploration licences support the measure in their area, the Guardian can reveal.

When asked if they would support fracking in their constituencies, only five of the 138 MPs said they would. Forty one said they would be against it, while the rest did not reply, or declined to comment.

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Analysis: Many potential sites are either in ‘red wall’ areas or former safe constituencies in the south

• Survey shows only five of 138 MPs in affected seats voice support

Look at the map of onshore exploration licences in the UK, and you could be forgiven for thinking it was an illustration of target seats for opposition parties in the next general election.

Ministers privately acknowledge that “rethinking” fracking would be politically very difficult. Those areas most ripe for the controversial oil and gas extraction method are marginals in the “red wall” of constituencies in the north that historically have tended to be Labour, many of which were won by the Tories in 2019. Many of the others are former safe Conservative seats in the south where the Liberal Democrats are limbering up to pick off disillusioned former Tory voters.

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EU lawmakers on a key parliamentary committee on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to support a European Commission proposal to strengthen the supply-curbing MSR.

Carbon snapped a series of five daily gains in early trading on Tuesday as demand shrank and the daily auction cleared at a sharp discount, while energy markets rallied as natural gas flows on the Yamal pipeline declined.

Thermal power generation in China rose 4.3% year-on-year in the first two months of 2022 as the economy performed better than expected over the period, official data showed Tuesday.

Trust creates refuge for white-clawed crayfish in old cattle drinking hole on Wallington estate near Morpeth

An “ark” refuge is being created by the National Trust to help save one of the UK’s most endangered native species from extinction.

The white-clawed crayfish is the UK’s only indigenous crayfish but the population has been almost wiped out because of the introduction of a bigger American species in the 1970s.

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