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A clean cooking summit due to be held in Paris next week, organised by the International Energy Agency, will place a significant focus on voluntary carbon markets as governments and private sector stakeholders seek to address current gaps in climate finance flows to Africa.

European carbon prices dropped steeply on Tuesday morning amid robust selling as traders took profit after EUAs failed to breach the psychologically important €75.00 level for a third time, while energy markets also drifted as forecasts called for higher temperatures later this week.

An Ecosystem Condition (EC) Protocol for standardising the measurement of ecosystem conditions across corporate reporting and biodiversity markets, with a similar format to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, aims to launch a draft version this year.

Collective grid capacity across 25 EU member states needs to more than double by 2035 in order to meet the Paris Agreement goal to keep global warming below 1.5C, according to research published on Tuesday.

Charity asks people to charm worms to the surface and count their numbers to contribute to worm map of UK

Dancing for worms may seem an odd pursuit, but an environment charity is calling for people across the UK to charm the creatures from the depths in order to count them.

The Soil Association is trying to get a nationwide picture of worm abundance, to track their decline and see where they need the most help.

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Nature restoration practices across Latin America lack effective tools to quantify their outcomes due to prohibitive monitoring costs, which hamper the long-term success of the projects, a study has revealed.

G20 countries are advancing their efforts to scale 'bioeconomy' as a means to promote sustainable models that foster biodiversity conservation, though actions must be taken to enhance convergence and comparability between different national approaches, a study has said.

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and human rights expert.

David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024, told the Guardian that states failing to take meaningful climate action and regulating polluting industries could soon face a slew of lawsuits.

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Kazakhstan has become the latest country to join the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge (GCPC) – an initiative aiming to cover 60% of the world’s emissions with carbon pricing by 2030 – the Central Asian nation announced Tuesday.

Government agencies in South Korea will start a discussion around a carbon finance product that allows companies to repay loans with carbon credits, according to local media reports.

ICAO, the UN agency that operates CORSIA, has confirmed the eight voluntary carbon standards that submitted material updates to crediting programmes as they seek eligibility for the current phase of the UN's international aviation offsetting scheme.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has joined the chorus of voices calling for reforms to New Zealand’s emissions trading scheme alongside addressing emissions in the agriculture sector, it said in an annual survey.

Most policy changes needed to unlock the full potential of consumer energy can be done with the sweep of a pen – and at minimal cost to the budget bottom line.

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At the launch of Fortescue's first US hydrogen project, Forrest criticises plans to limit access to tax credits to renewables-only "green" fuel production.

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Scientists have returned 18 red handfish to Tasmanian waters months after they were removed to protect them from record high sea temperatures. Marine ecologist Dr Jemina Stuart-Smith said removing the fish had been a difficult decision but was the ‘right approach’ despite the risks. Three of the fish died in captivity. Dr Andrew Trotter, who leads the red handfish conservation project at the University of Tasmania’s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, said the three deaths were disappointing but highlighted the need to better understand disease in the critically endangered species. There are fewer than 100 red handfish estimated to be left in the wild in two patches of rocky reef south-east of Hobart

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Global funds giant signs "first of its kind" deal to deliver 10.5 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity over four years to help power Microsoft's global operations.

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UK-based renewables giant to take over management of Australia's first wind, solar and battery park, and two other wind farms.

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AGL announces a major uplift in forecast profits, driven by its coal-dominated generation and also some battery storage.

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A clever approach to restoring Australia’s native oyster and mussel reefs in Queensland’s Moreton Bay is catching on, giving community groups a way to get involved in their local patch. Dominic McAfee, Postdoctoral researcher, marine ecology, University of Adelaide Craig Copeland, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of Newcastle Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

First crewed space flight of Boeing's Starliner was postponed shortly before lift-off due to glitch.