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Activists Trick the Market – Buy Emissions Rights

German environmental activists have managed to speed up the climate transition by buying and throwing away EU emissions rights aimed at industry, reports DN.

German organizations offer private individuals to buy these, which are then torn up. This means that there will be fewer left for industry, which leads to total emissions decreasing faster than the EU has decided.

“If it becomes common knowledge that a certain amount (of emissions rights) is being cancelled, then of course they will take this into account the next time they negotiate in the EU,” says Mattias Goldmann, founder of the 2030 Secretariat, which works to ensure that Sweden reaches the EU’s climate goals, to DN.

In theory, the German organizations have reduced Europe’s emissions by 200,000 tons of carbon dioxide. Which is more than the entire Kalmar municipality’s carbon dioxide emissions for an entire year.

Protests in Serbia
Riot police deployed during protests in Serbia

On Wednesday, riot police were deployed in the city of Novi Sad, in northern Serbia, after anti-government protesters and supporters of the ruling party clashed and threw flares at each other, AFP reports.

Protests were taking place in several parts of the country on Wednesday evening, for the second day in a row. Among them were outside the former president's headquarters in the city of Vrbas and outside the parliament in the capital Belgrade.

The unrest is part of the wave of protests that was triggered after a railway station collapsed in Novi Sad last November, which cost 16 lives. This raised allegations of corruption against President Vucic and his government.

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The police in Washington are now allowed to cooperate with ICE

The police in Washington DC are expanding their cooperation with federal authorities, such as the immigration agency ICE, American media reports. After the decision of the police chief Pamela Smith, patrols are now allowed to contact ICE if they encounter undocumented people, for example during traffic stops.

The decision means that the police depart from a previous policy. According to the new rules, even people who are not suspected of a crime can be reported to ICE, which can lead to arrests and deportations, writes NBC News.

Smith's decision comes just a few days after Trump took control of the capital police and called in the National Guard to curb crime, despite statistics showing that the number of violent crimes is decreasing.