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As major emitters took major steps to enhancing climate action, Scott Morrison figured out a stunning new way to fake emissions reductions.

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Several Mexican government agencies are reviewing a draft forestry protocol for use under the country’s proposed emissions trading scheme, an official said Thursday, while protocols for livestock, agriculture, and road transportation are in earlier stages of development within the environment ministry.

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Climate activist asked to speak at hearing as part of push by Democrats to include fossil fuel subsidy elimination in bill

Subsidies given to fossil fuel companies are a “disgrace” and must be immediately ended, Greta Thunberg, the Swedish climate activist, has told a US congressional committee.

A sweeping $2tn infrastructure plan put forward by Joe Biden has proposed the rolling back of support and tax breaks for oil, gas and coal producers to help lower planet-heating emissions and pay for new investments. Eliminating such subsidies would bring in $35bn to the US government over a decade, according to the Biden administration.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose on the secondary market amid increased speculative demand and continued bullish floor price outlooks, while RGGI Allowances (RGA) sunk amid relatively thin volume.

The US Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry unanimously approved a bipartisan bill on Thursday designed to create a framework within which farmers, ranchers, and private forest owners can receive payments for generating carbon credits through implementing climate-smart practices.

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Greta Thunberg appeared virtually before a House subcommittee Thursday to call on US officials to do more, saying it’s ‘not too late’ to make real changes in the fight against climate change. ‘The simple fact and uncomfortable fact is that if we are to live up to our promises and commitments in the Paris agreement, we have to end fossil fuel subsidies, stop new exploration and extraction, completely divest from fossil fuels and keep the carbon in the ground,’ the climate activist said. Her comments came during the environment subcommittee remote hearing on ‘The role of fossil fuel subsidies in preventing action on the climate crisis’ and also Earth Day

• Greta Thunberg in climate call to young people: ‘No limits to what we can accomplish’ – live

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The government is under pressure to do more to tackle global heating but critics say the PM has instead employed ‘Trumpian misrepresentation’

• Morrison refuses to budge on target as Biden pledges to halve US emissions
• US vows to cut its emissions by at least 50% by 2030

As Australia came under international pressure to lift its climate commitments ahead of a virtual summit hosted by the US president the prime minister, Scott Morrison, and his emissions reduction minister, Angus Taylor, have made a series of claims to defend the government’s position.

Do they stack up? Adam Morton looks at the evidence.

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The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) should be linked to the bloc’s ETS and only gradually reduce the share of free allocation of allowances while avoiding double protection for EU industries, according to a report from a Brussels-based think-tank released Thursday.

Government urged to bring in successor, but learn lessons from ‘botched implementation’

Applications for a grant to cut carbon emissions from houses surged in the month before the £1.5bn scheme was shut down by the government.

The green homes grant which was announced by Boris Johnson as a key measure to cut UK carbon emissions was scrapped six months after its launch.

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Prime minister calls on countries to come to Cop26 ‘armed with ambitious targets and plans’

With just over six months to go until vital UN climate talks, Boris Johnson has urged world leaders at a virtual White House summit to step up with plans for cutting greenhouse gas emissions this decade.

“It’s vital for all of us to show that this is not all about some expensive politically correct green act of ‘bunny hugging’ or however you want to put it,” the prime minister told the possibly slightly puzzled leaders. “Nothing wrong with ‘bunny hugging’ but you know what I’m driving at.”

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Speaking at a virtual summit, Boris Johnson urges world leaders to "build back greener".

The US, UK, and Norway launched a coalition on Thursday with to raise $1 billion in private capital for jurisdictions that reduce deforestation emissions under the Architecture for REDD+ Transaction's (ART) programme. 

From rented jeans to pineapple leather and buttons made from ‘vegetable ivory’, these 10 brands are at the vanguard of ethical innovation

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EUAs climbed another 3% on Thursday morning to top €47 for the first time ever, as speculators and last-minute compliance buyers continued to chase prices into new territory and observers saw room for further upside.

An environmental products trader is leaving oil major Shell to join commodities trading house Mercuria and its reopened London carbon desk, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Joe Biden’s target is strongest contribution yet towards meeting 2015 Paris climate agreement, say scientists

The US goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, compared with 2005 levels, will take the world closer to the reductions scientists say are necessary to hold global heating within scientifically advised limits, analysis has shown.

The target, announced on Thursday before a virtual summit of more than 40 world leaders hosted by the US president, Joe Biden, would result in emissions reductions of between 1.5 and 2.4 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent a year by 2030, compared with the US’s current expected emissions, according to Climate Action Tracker.

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A federal court dismissed a US Department of Justice (DOJ) appeal on Wednesday that challenged the constitutionality of the California-Quebec WCI cap-and-trade programme linkage, according to court documents.