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Through working with recognised carbon certification organisations, as well as investing in the development of new and more effective protocols, we can accelerate the move towards climate-positive agriculture and champion farmers as key participants in the climate change solution, argues Mike Frank of agrochemical firm UPL. 

A carbon credit rating agency on Friday put nine projects 'on watch' for a potential change in its grading, identifying several ACR-certified US activities and Cambodian REDD projects.

The Environmental Protection Agency wants to include two common ‘forever chemicals’ in Superfund law

The Biden administration on Friday announced a new proposal that could force polluters of two common PFAS compounds to pay billions of dollars for the toxic substances’ cleanup.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to designate PFOA and PFOS as hazardous substances under the Superfund law, the statute that guides cleanup at the nation’s most contaminated sites.

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The best of this week’s wildlife pictures, including bathing elephants, a slow loris and newborn panda twins

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A project financed by Finland's environment and land use ministries is drawing up guidelines for those accessing carbon offsetting services and will aim to publish a final set of rules in January 2023.

But the Liberal Democrats call the plans a "cruel joke" pointing to higher bills for consumers.

A veteran project developer has teamed up with a blockchain marketplace to underline the ongoing inroads of decentralised finance and digitalisation in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) that threatens to undermine traditional intermediaries.

Lib Dems say investment will end up on customers’ bills and public will be paying for executives’ bonuses

The UK government’s strategy to tackle sewage discharges is a “cruel joke”, critics have said, after ministers laid out plans to stop the pollution.

George Eustice, the environment secretary, announced that water companies would have to invest £56bn over 25 years into a long-term programme to tackle storm sewage discharges by 2050.

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Analysts told Carbon Pulse that higher coal burn will keep support for EUA prices despite a rising number of industrial shutdowns across Europe due to fresh record highs across power and gas markets that will dent demand for emissions allowances.

A New York-based logistics real estate firm on Thursday announced a nearly $5 million investment into a nascent forest carbon offset programme for small landowners, a move expected to generate hundreds of thousands of VERs.

Peter Purves says innovation to cut waste is a disaster for amateur arts and crafts

Peter Purves has decried the invention of tubeless toilet rolls as a “complete catastrophe” as it deprives the public of a key component of amateur arts and crafts.

Loo paper brand Cushelle has become the first company to remove the cardboard inner tube from its packaging in an attempt to reduce waste.

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A journey down the waterway in an area of outstanding natural beauty highlights troubles facing UK rivers

The thick mist hangs low over the high moor where the river rises from a boggy wilderness. It rushes over granite slabs and waterfalls down rocks, pooling alongside small oaks amid the coconut tang of yellow gorse, before picking up pace once more, fed, at last, by a few days of rain.

Twenty-three miles downstream its brackish flow swooshes at pace into a steep-sided estuary where paddleboarders ride the tidal motion and surfers run into the swell of Bigbury Bay.

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European carbon traded sideways for a third day on Friday as market participants complained of a lack of direction, even as energy prices continued to race to new records as Europe faced the prospect of energy shortfalls this winter.

Primary supply in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has continued to thin this month amid ongoing backlogs at key registries, helping lift offset prices from the bear market earlier in the summer.

The Malaysian state of Sarawak’s forthcoming framework for generating offsets from forest carbon activities must learn from international examples as well as comply with standards that are set globally, the region’s premier, Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg, said on Friday.

‘Really lousy’ garden wins contest on island of Gotland that aims to promote water conservation

Residents of Sweden’s largest island have been competing to determine which of them has the ugliest lawn.

The competition is an effort by the municipality of Gotland to promote water conservation. After the island, located in the middle of the Baltic Sea, received a record-breaking number of visitors and residents last summer, its politicians realised that it needed to make drastic changes to save its water supplies. Gotland’s population doubles during the summer months and this places a heavy demand on water reserves and limited groundwater supplies.

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Exclusive: Experts warn drought could be start of three-year cycle with dire impacts on wildlife and environment

River-flow rates in England have been lower this summer than at any time in the past 21 years, data has shown, and could be much worse next year, with dire impacts on wildlife and the natural environment, conservation experts have warned.

Analysis since 2002 of England’s groundwater, reservoir levels and river flows – three key indicators for the severity of drought, and for river health – shows that July this year was the worst in that period.

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Weekly trading volume in China’s national emissions market fell below 100,000 units over the past week, as the lack of policy direction continues to mute trading activity.

Australia will introduce a biodiversity crediting scheme which will operate in parallel with the nation’s carbon offset market, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Friday, as minting of new Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) came off from recent lofty levels.

Australian power and gas company Origin Energy has set a new target to reach net zero Scope 1-3 emissions by 2050, as well as raised its short and medium term emissions targets for 2023 and 2030, as it released its first climate change transition action plan (CTAP) on Friday.