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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) may have eyed a quick resolution of its constitutional challenges to the California-Quebec ETS linkage to enable President Donald Trump's administration to appeal to a more conservative court, lawyers involved in the case told Carbon Pulse.

California issued more than 157,000 new offsets over the past week, with nearly 70,000 of those credits tagged as having direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBS), according to data published by regulator ARB on Wednesday.

A new assessment found substantial warming is much more solidly assured than we thought. Steven Sherwood, ARC Laureate Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Eelco Rohling, Professor of Ocean and Climate Change, Australian National University Katherine Marvel, Associate Research Scientist, NASA Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

European carbon prices rebounded after hitting a fresh three-week low on Wednesday, with traders noting solid demand for allowances around current levels despite selling and supply-side pressure.

The Australian home has a big problem: it's draughty, poorly insulated and costs a fortune to heat and cool. Most older homes have an abysmal energy efficiency rating – and we are paying the price. So what can be done to fix the problem? A lot, actually. And the government could play a role in retrofitting Australia's existing housing stock with its coronavirus stimulus spending. Here's how. 

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Australia’s leaky homes are leaving millions of us vulnerable to extreme weather. In the first of a series of features on the Green Recovery, we look at how coronavirus stimulus could fix the problem

Tony O’Connell used to build whatever was put in front of him.

The 53-year-old from Wonthaggi, a coastal town in Gippsland, Victoria, has been in construction for 34 years. “What was on the plan was what was on the plan,” he says. “I wouldn’t question it.”

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Worldwide study finds Australia among nations with highest shark numbers, but 34 out of 58 nations have half what was expected

Destructive and unsustainable fishing has caused a crash in shark numbers across many of the world’s coral reefs, upsetting the ecological balance of the critical marine ecosystems, a major study has found.

A network of remote underwater cameras across 58 countries found sharks were “functionally extinct” at almost one in five of the 371 reefs studied over four years.

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Great American Outdoors Act would allocate $9.5bn annually for five years for previously neglected park maintenance

The US Congress is poised to approve a sweeping, long-awaited bill to continuously fund national, state and local parks – a major boon to conservation and one of the few pieces of significant legislation the government has been able to agree on in a divisive election year.

The Great American Outdoors Act, which the House is expected to pass on Wednesday afternoon, allocates $9.5bn annually for the next five years for previously neglected park repairs. And it sets up $900m a year to acquire land for conservation and continue maintenance.

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Renewable electricity overtook fossil fuels in the first half of 2020 to account for the largest share of generation among the EU's 27 member states as coal-fired production shrank by a third, a report released on Wednesday found.

Humans settled in the Americas much earlier than previously thought, according to new finds from Mexico.

Bats' codes of life contain genetic clues to their "exceptional immunity", which protects them from viruses.

Quebec will postpone the distribution of the remaining industrial carbon allocations for the 2019 compliance year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, but the province will still transfer the allowances well before emitters need them for ETS compliance, according to a notice published Wednesday.

A government with Keith Pitt as resources minister, Angus Taylor as minister determining the fate of the energy system, and a rump of hard line Queensland MPs is going to give short shrift to the experts.

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Scientists predict rise of between 2.6C and 3.9C compared with earlier forecasts of 1.5C to 4.5C

Doomsayers and hopemongers alike may need to revise their climate predictions after a study that almost rules out the most optimistic forecasts for global heating while downplaying the likelihood of worst-case scenarios.

The international team of scientists involved in the research say they have narrowed the range of probable climate outcomes, which reduces the uncertainty that has long plagued public debate about this field.

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The European Commission will present a proposal to revise the EU ETS Directive in order to fund the bloc's coronavirus recovery package using EUA auction revenues from an expanded carbon market, a senior official confirmed on Wednesday.

The League of Conservation Voters is looking for a climate strategy director, with the location of the job flexible.

Katta O'Donnell is accusing Canberra of failing to disclose risks from climate change to its bonds.

Climate Focus is looking for a trainee to support its team with projects for their international clients, ranging from developing carbon offsetting strategies, designing mitigation projects (mainly in the forestry sector) as well as climate policies related to carbon markets, climate finance and carbon pricing under the framework of the Paris Agreement.

Experts think the site, estimated to be 1,500 years old, was dedicated to the god of the underworld.

No one had tested positive via nasal swabs, but researchers’ investigation tells a different story

Yosemite national park officials suspect that hundreds of visitors this summer may have had Covid-19 thanks to an unorthodox approach – testing sewage.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported last week that the county health department has been collecting untreated wastewater flowing from the idyllic Yosemite Valley for testing. Prior to this effort, according to the Chronicle, no one had tested positive for the virus through nasal swab testing at the park’s health clinic. Scientists at a lab called Biobot Analytics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have examined the sewage water to determine if there are traces of genetic material from Sars-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, in the human feces. From the traces in a given sample, they can estimate how many people passing through Yosemite might be infected with Covid-19 at that time.

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