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EU carbon prices jumped for a second straight day, adding nearly 5% at one point on Tuesday as buyers capitalised on broader market optimism and attempted to squeeze some eleventh-hour EUA gains out of a supply-starved August and ahead of a steep rise in auction volumes.

California’s legislature may opt not to disburse hundreds of millions of dollars of carbon auction revenue this year due to doubts over upcoming WCI-linked sales, regulatory sources told Carbon Pulse.

Eight West African countries took part last week in the first of a series of consultations to establish a subregional carbon pricing instrument, the coordinator of the West African Alliance said Tuesday.

Project includes inscriptions dating back hundreds of years spotted by members of the public

Some are fading records of passionate woodland trysts, while others tell vividly of the fear of the supernatural that some still feel in the forest: they are the more than 100 pieces of graffiti carved into trees in the New Forest in the south of England that have been spotted by members of the public and collected by the national park authority.

There are, not surprisingly, plenty of lovers’ initials but also “witch marks”, etched into bark to try to ward off people suspected of evil intent and examples of the “king’s mark”, which was used to identify trees chosen to be chopped down to make warships.

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Nigeria is now rid of wild polio having had more than half of global cases less than 10 years ago.

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Campaigner says decision at odds with Paris agreement to achieve net zero by 2050

An environmental campaigner is mounting a legal challenge to the government’s decision to exclude waste incinerators from its post-Brexit carbon emissions trading scheme designed to bring the UK to net zero emissions by 2050.

Georgia Elliott-Smith, a sustainability consultant who is fighting the expansion of the Edmonton incinerator, is seeking a judicial review of the omission of what legal papers say are “staggering” levels of CO2 emissions from waste incinerators.

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South Korea can begin earning Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) from GHG cuts from residential buildings after the UN approved its new standardised baseline system for measuring emissions, the government said Tuesday.

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Slaughterhouse figures from a three-year period highlight poor conditions in Britain’s poultry sector, say campaigners

More than 61 million chickens were rejected because of diseases and defects at slaughterhouses in England and Wales over a three-year period, according to figures analysed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian.

Broilers, chickens raised for meat, were the worst affected with almost 59 million defects recorded. More than 39 million broilers arrived and were rejected at slaughter due to disease – approximately 35,000 every day.

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A sycamore laced with the shoes of jubilant students, a haunted oak bound in chains and a Hackney plane facing the chop are among the 10 contenders to become England’s tree of the year. The Woodland Trust’s annual competition throws the spotlight on the country’s best-loved trees to drive interest in their value and protection

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Public invited to choose online from list including haunted oak and sycamore full of shoes

A haunted oak, a sycamore laced with the shoes of celebrating students and a Hackney plane tree threatened with destruction are among the contenders for England’s tree of the year.

The Woodland Trust’s annual competition to celebrate individual trees and our relationship with them also includes contests in Wales and Scotland, where nominees include a photogenic fern-leaved beech in Port Talbot that has starred in Doctor Who, Songs of Praise and Sex Education, Britain’s oldest Indian bean tree and a hawthorn planted by Mary, Queen of Scots.

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Investment in gas will not herald Australia's economic recovery. It's likely to hinder it. Samantha Hepburn, Director of the Centre for Energy and Natural Resources Law, Deakin Law School, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

CEC warns against repeat of a Tony Abbott-style renewable energy witch hunt as federal Coalition announces a review of Australia’s rooftop solar industry.

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Australian researchers have called for a 'Coal Elimination Treaty', arguing governments must be actively planning for a coal phase-out.

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Critics say government’s proposals for prohibitions and fines are seriously flawed

The government has announced plans to introduce a new law to clamp down on illegal deforestation and protect rainforests by cleaning up the UK’s supply chains.

The proposals, published on Tuesday, suggest the introduction of legislation to prohibit larger businesses operating in the UK from using products grown on land that was deforested illegally.

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Today the Clean Energy Council announced the winners of the Annual Awards, and Allume Energy has won the Innovation Award.

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Power Ledger aims to create a Renewable Energy Certificate marketplace in Thailand and the broader Southeast Asian region.

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Vestas signs up to supply turbines for massive Shetland Islands Viking wind farm – the UK’s largest and most productive onshore wind project, to date.

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First Solar says its 141MW Luz del Norte solar PV plant in Chile will be world’s first utility-scale PV facility licensed to deliver ancillary grid services on a commercial basis.

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