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*PREMIUM LISTING - Given significant developments in the global environmental and social context, governments and private-sector actors are increasingly engaging in a variety of activities that provide opportunities for Verra's standards. This includes a growing focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which Verra's programs are well placed to support, and which motivates Verra's interest in hiring for this role.

*PREMIUM LISTING - Given significant developments in the global environmental and social context, governments and private-sector actors are increasingly engaging in a variety of activities that provide opportunities for Verra's standards. This includes a growing focus on reducing plastic waste, which Verra's programs are well placed to support, and which motivates Verra's interest in hiring for this role.

Canadian software development company TraceSafe on Tuesday announced it purchased individuals-focused carbon credit platform Offsety.

The Brazilian Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) has two obvious options for reducing sky-high Decarbonisation Credit (CBIO) values under its RenovaBio programme, either raise the price of gasoline during an election year or weaken the biofuel market’s CO2 mitigation goals, according to a World Bank economist.

The EU awarded €1.8 billion to 17 large carbon-cutting projects across Europe on Tuesday, the second large-scale activities selected to receive cash from the ETS-derived Innovation Fund.

Interestingly, we also found a major period of ice loss in Antarctica was followed by a period of gain, starting some 5,000 years ago. Richard Selwyn Jones, Research Fellow, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An idea to fund the REPowerEU strategy by selling MSR-held carbon units looks set for a troubled path into law, with MEPs from across the political spectrum on Tuesday rallying against the 'short-sighted' measure they feel undermines the bloc’s carbon market and progress towards emissions targets.

Two startups have teamed up to offer web3 companies the technology to offset their carbon footprint by buying tokenised voluntary carbon market (VCM) credits, while another venture has announced its entry into the space by the end of the year with a “private” blockchain-based carbon marketplace.

Carbon credits have weathered the turmoil in financial markets since Russia invaded Ukraine better than leading asset classes, and the market remains underpinned by robust fundamental demand despite its voluntary nature and a growing surplus of offsets, a webinar heard Tuesday.

EU lawmakers are likely to push for a tougher 2030 renewables target than member states at an interim vote this week, though Brussels' REPowerEU plan to quickly ditch Russian fossil fuels is set to complicate work on finalising legislation.

Colombian air carrier Avianca on Monday announced has purchased carbon credits for nearly 98% of its operational emissions during the first half of 2022, and will buy a larger number of offsets over the final six months of the year.

Our federal government pays some people to protect native forests, while state governments pay others to cut them down

The climate crisis often gets blamed on market failure, but government failure plays a pretty big role as well. Not only do Australian governments spend more than $11.6bn a year subsidising fossil fuels, at the same time the federal government spends billions paying some landholders to grow more trees, state governments perversely continue to subsidise the logging of native forests. I’m not sure that’s what people mean by the circular economy.

While successive governments have spent billions subsidising research into carbon capture and storage (CCS), the really inconvenient truth is the most effective CCS technology is the humble tree. It’s low cost, low risk and ready to roll. Trees quite literally suck carbon dioxide out of the air and store it safely in their trunks and their roots. And as if that’s not a cool invention, trees throw in water filtration and native species habitat “services” for free. If Elon Musk had invented the tree, he’d be a trillionaire by now.

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A lack of recent rainfall forces part of the Leeds-Liverpool canal to shut while 5 million face a hosepipe ban

Boat owners on the UK’s longest canal will not be able to move their boats next week, due to a water shortage, while 5 million people have been warned they may be soon facing a hosepipe ban.

Stretches of the Leeds-Liverpool canal will be closed during periods next week after a lack of rainfall has led to low levels in some Yorkshire and Lancashire reservoirs, leaving canal locks unable to be filled.

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A datacentre is cooling its servers while providing nearby residents with heating.

A "stellar nursery" and a "cosmic dance" are among James Webb's first batch of colour images.

The solar-powered Airbus Zephyr S unmanned aircraft beat the record it set in 2018, data suggests.

British utility Drax has submitted plans to build the world’s largest carbon capture facility at its wood-burning power station, aiming to make good on its ambition to generate 8 Mt of carbon removals a year at the site by 2030.

The WHO declared it a probable human carcinogen in 2015 and 70-80 UK councils have turned to chemical-free options

Yellow grass and unnaturally bare soil around public trees and paths is increasingly a vision of the past, as indiscriminate use of the controversial weedkiller glyphosate is phased out by councils. But changing the way the public realm looks is not without controversy, with some complaining so-called weeds make urban spaces unsightly.

Heavily used in farming, glyphosate’s non-agricultural use extends to parks and green spaces, pavements and playgrounds, hospitals and shopping centres. Since the WHO declared it a “probable human carcinogen” in 2015, after research found “strong” evidence for its toxicity, 70 to 80 UK councils have turned to chemical-free options or simply letting plants grow, from Bath & North East Somerset council, to Highland council in Scotland.

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We are extremely active in the voluntary carbon markets (VCM) serving SMEs, major corporates and financial institutions and are now looking to enhance our project origination capabilities. We are therefore looking for a suitably experienced team member to be at the forefront of that development.

EU carbon headed higher in light trading on Tuesday morning as the market extended the recent channel between €82.50-€85.50 for a sixth day, while energy prices were lifted by reports that French nuclear plants may have to trim operating rates as temperatures were forecast to soar across most of western Europe next week.