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Anyone flouting the rules could be fined due to the damage some lotions can cause to coral.

The top holder of California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credits reduced its share of the bank once again during the six-month period ending in Q1 2021, continuing a persistent trend over the past several years, recent data showed. 

An increasing number of Eastern EU nations are accelerating their plans to shut down coal-fired power plants, amid rising costs of burning the fuel and financial support to recover from the coronavirus crisis.

Organization: European Climate Foundation Position: Senior Associate, Clean Energy Duty Station: Flexible Deadline for Application: 16 August 2021

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) is slated to make a decision as early as this week on whether Dominion Energy can recover $167.8 million from ratepayers for RGGI-related compliance costs, an agency spokesperson told Carbon Pulse.

Researchers say relying on technologies alone will not be enough to avoid a climate emergency, and question the viability indefinite economic growth.

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Quebec’s environment ministry released a draft forestry protocol for private lands on Wednesday that allows for aggregation of several sites, enables early action projects to earn compliance-grade credits, and omits California’s 100-year permanence requirement.

Exciting opportunity to play a meaningful role in the development, establishment and implementation of the new UK Emissions Trading Scheme (UK ETS).

Numbers of people exposed to flooding globally have risen by almost a quarter in two decades.

Populations in flood-prone regions is increasing, with 57 countries especially susceptible

From Germany to New York City, this summer has demonstrated the destructive force of floods. Now, a new study shows that many more people will live in flood-prone areas in the coming decade and reveals the population in areas likely to flood is increasing at a greater rate than other places.

The study, which was published in the journal Nature today, used daily satellite observations of floods during 913 large flood events between 2000 and 2018.

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Utility Uniper is to close one of the four units at its Ratcliffe UK coal power plant at the end of September 2022, the company said on Wednesday, two years ahead of the site's full shutdown.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator has terminated a contract with a project meant to deliver 2.4 MtCO2e worth of carbon cuts to the government’s Emissions Reduction Fund, pushing the delivery failure of the fund back up towards 10%.

The Labour leader says there is a "chasm between soundbites and action" on climate-friendly employment.

EUAs rose to their highest in three weeks early on Wednesday, testing key technical resistance levels after a strong auction result, as energy markets erased the previous day's losses.

It is not good to be too pessimistic on the climate crisis. That said, it sure does seem like we’re screwed

If you have cultivated an Edgar Allen Poe-like appreciation for the macabre, there is a certain sort of amusement to be had in watching the developed world deal with the insistent onslaught of climate change. Like many horror stories, this one features a main character full of futile determination to maintain a sense of normalcy even as the ominous signs of doom become ever more impossible to ignore. We can chuckle knowing that the monster is going to come for our designated protectors. We stop chuckling knowing that it’s coming for all of us next.

Related: Wildfire fighters advance against biggest US blaze amid dire warnings

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New Zealand’s beef and lamb lobby on Wednesday called on the government to place a limit on the amount of carbon allowances from forestry can be used in the emissions trading scheme, as a report showed almost 100,000 hectares of farm land had been converted to forests since 2017.

Angus Taylor's second attempt at introducing controversial ARENA regulations narrowly survives an attempt by the Australian Greens to cancel them out.

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A leading carbon analyst has raised his forecast for EUA prices over the three years to 2024 by an average of 40%, amid a “high chance” that the EU will enact its ambitious EU ETS reform package.

A Welsh minister is to set out plans to tackle a housing shortage and the problem of climate change.

RepuTex’s ACCU spot price assessment grew 4% to $22/t over the fortnight, a new record high, behind increasing corporate and investor activity.

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