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Prices for CORSIA-eligible voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) again advanced slightly this week, with one assessment hitting a new peak as some sellers are seen holding back in expectation that governments will eventually step in with regulation.

EUAs hit their highest in six weeks on Monday as details of draft carbon market reforms emerged, though prices retreated as energy prices stalled and as some traders fretted about this week's higher auction supply.

The remaining populations are threatened by a lack of genetic diversity, which makes them less likely to bounce back from new pressures such as climate change. Emily Roycroft, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Pacific Northwest utility companies may see fewer reasons to export renewable power into California over the coming decade, after Washington and Oregon legislatures advanced climate policies that incentivize that use of clean energy.

The UK will hand out 4.36 million free carbon allowances to aviation this year under the country’s new emissions trading scheme, the government announced late Monday.

As links between climate change and extreme weather events increase, experts predict more lawsuits.

The EU's upcoming carbon market reform proposal will seek to place further conditions on free allowance allocation to energy-intensive industries, according to sources familiar with a draft document.

Experts says scientific advances are making it easier to attribute the damages of climate breakdown to companies’ activities

Businesses could soon be facing a fresh wave of legal action holding them to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, owing to advances in climate science, experts have warned.

More than 1,500 legal actions have already been brought against fossil fuel companies whose emissions over decades have played a major role in building up carbon in the atmosphere.

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Despite a week-long rally that has added more than 6% to EUA prices, carbon needs to rise even higher in order to restore natural gas’ advantage over coal in EU power generation, updated data show.

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France was the only EU country that continued to allow ‘barbaric’ practice

France’s highest administrative appeals court has ruled that the hunting of songbirds with glue traps is illegal, saying an exemption that had permitted the practice was in breach of European legislation.

For generations, hunters mainly in the south of France have caught songbirds by coating branches of trees with glue, often using the singing of other caged birds to lure birds to land. Birds are caught for sport or food.

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Trading in China’s national emissions trading scheme will not start this month as planned, the carbon exchange in Shanghai confirmed on Monday, though it remains unclear when trading can begin or what has caused the latest setback for the market.

Small-scale fishers say mostly EU fleet is devastating catches with method that nets entire shoals of fish

The UK has been accused of allowing a fleet of mainly EU “fly-shooting” fishing boats “unfettered access” to the Channel, without a proper assessment of the impact on fish populations, the seabed or the livelihoods of small-scale fishers.

Organisations representing small-scale fishers on both sides of the Channel have warned that the fleet is having a “devastating” effect on their catches. They are calling for a review of the vessels’ UK licences until an impact assessment has been carried out.

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• Man, 35, bitten on leg by shark estimated at 6ft to 8ft
• Great whites on rebound in west coast ecosystem

A surfer was severely injured in an attack by a great white shark off California on Saturday, one month after researchers found that numbers of the predator were growing in the region.

Related: Tiger sharks are not scared of hurricanes, US researchers say

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Costs of producing solar are falling well below coal, which might be one reason why fossil fuel incumbents are trying to cash in while they can.

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VEPC report skewers one of the key arguments used in case for solar export tax: that rooftop PV is a play-thing for the well-to-do.

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Government warns Russia is building more coal export infrastructure, increasing supply to Asia as demand threatens to take a sharp downwards dive.

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