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Compliance entities raised their California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net length back towards a 13-month high this week, while speculators modestly retreated on their positions following last week’s surge, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.

A trio of past California Carbon Offset (CCO) livestock projects in the Land of 10,000 Lakes are seeking to switch over to the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) instead, according to data published by state regulator ARB on Friday.

Photographer Callie Chee captures the weird and wonderful landscapes that spring to life in the dark

(Please do not pick or eat any mushrooms found growing wild)

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A Chicago-based firm on Friday launched its new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that will follow an index composed of carbon allowances, fossil gas, and metals.

Models indicate that there could be between 25 and 30 extreme events a year by mid-century

Millions across the US south-west are bracing for a weekend of sweltering heat as forecasts threaten record-setting high temperatures that will top 100F in several states.

Heat advisories and excessive heat warnings have been issued across portions of roughly half a dozen states and daily records could be broken in more than 75 cities.

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Some 85 vulnerable countries are urging the voluntary carbon market to apply principles from the Paris Agreement's Article 6 emissions trading rulebook, including shaving off a share of credit issuance proceeds to help them cope with a warmer climate.

Labour says leaked white paper suggesting more fish farming and venison ‘borders on preposterous’

• Analysis: Strategy shows no stomach for bold action

Boris Johnson’s new food strategy for England contains virtually no new measures to tackle the soaring cost of food, childhood hunger, obesity or the climate emergency, a leaked version of the white paper shows.

The strategy, seen by the Guardian and due to be published on Monday, was supposed to be a groundbreaking response to recommendations from the restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, who wrote two government-commissioned reports on obesity and the environment.

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While interest in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) continues to surge, some of the underlying mechanics need a revamp to keep pace, according to some experts highlighting how harnessing technology can improve both carbon project verification and overall impacts.

Containerships can cut CO2 emissions by an average of 14% if they optimise speed to arrive ‘just in time’ at ports, according to a report published this week ahead of the shipping sector’s widely-expected entry into the EU ETS and as global-level negotiations struggle to curb the sector's climate impact. 

Nearly half of future Scope 2 emission reductions reported by companies will not be real if they continue to use Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to meet their Science Backed Targets (SBTs) for cutting greenhouse gas pollution, a report has claimed.

Engineered greenhouse gas removals should be integrated into the UK ETS in the mid- to long-term, multiple experts told a conference on Friday, urging linkage of the system to the EU carbon market while pointing to CfDs as a more appropriate immediate approach for scaling the technology.

Renewable heating incentive was set up to help business, public sector and non-profit organisations

A minister, MPs and several aristocratic landowners have received thousands in public funds from a government subsidy intended to stimulate the green transition.

The renewable heating incentive was set up in 2014 to help businesses, public sector and non-profit organisations meet the cost of installing renewable heat systems by paying them a tariff for each unit of heat produced from renewable sources. A parallel system was set up for homes.

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EUAs edged higher in light trading on Friday morning as traders awaited news on the European Parliament's efforts to adopt a position on the Fit for 55 ETS reform package, while energy prices slipped in moderate trade.

World Resources Institute (WRI) intends to award short-term contract to advise on establishing new carbon market mechanisms in Fiji.