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The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia.

A Senate bill eyeing more stringent oversight over the purchase and sale of carbon offsets received no public testimony during its third Senate committee hearing on Monday, and now awaits a vote by committee members on whether it will advance to the Senate floor.

California diesel sales in January rose to their highest volumes for that month since 2008, while gasoline sales and emissions decreased year-on-year from 2023, according to state data released Monday.

Representatives of CO2 pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) testified before the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday as the company once again attempts to secure a permit for pipeline construction in the state.

Compliance entities continue to support RGGI allowance prices even as transaction volumes in the secondary market declined through the week, with participants reporting lower snow levels likely impacting imported hydro power.

Federal Labor's $1 billion Solar Sunshot program could be put to work as early as August with a tender for PV module manufacturing projects.

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday the allocation of $11 million to four CO2 transport projects across multiple states, as the agency continues to enable large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives.

California regulator ARB will discuss potential changes to market rules surrounding corporate disclosures and holding limits in their public rulemaking cap-and-trade workshop scheduled Tuesday, according to a slidedeck posted Monday, which resulted in futures prices in the secondary market selling off.

We compiled maps of bushfires and prescribed burns in southern Australia from 1980 to 2021 to see how fire activity is changing habitat for 129 threatened species such as mountain pygmy possums. William Geary, Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation, The University of Melbourne Dale Nimmo, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Julianna Santos, Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation Science, The University of Melbourne Kristina J Macdonald, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Pollution on land inevitably ends up in the sea. Policy makers must stop working in silos and instead consider the indirect consequences human impacts on land have for marine environments. Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher, Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Conrad Pilditch, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Waikato Simon Francis Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term.

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Wealthy donor countries are too set on “exotic” carbon projects on the African continent like clean cooking and do not pay enough for more “pragmatic” solutions, according to a Sierra Leonian climate envoy speaking Thursday at the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington DC.

Optimism is creeping back into the voluntary market, although prices and liquidity were steady last week, and some standardized prices slipped lower from already very weak levels.

Most of the private companies worldwide are unprepared to respect their country's climate goals and the Paris Agreement to keep the global increase in temperature below 1.5C compared to 1990 levels, according to a report released on Monday.

The extension of the UK ETS to include emissions from waste risks imposing significant new costs on cash-strapped local council authorities and pushing more rubbish to landfills, unless the government passes supporting policies within the next two years, experts said on Monday.

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) registry Isometric launched on Monday, with the first batch of credits issued to members of the Frontier buyers' club.

The UK government will soon begin a public consultation on how best to include maritime emissions in the scope of the UK ETS, a senior official said on Monday, without indicating when the government would respond to recently completed consultations on other potential changes to the country’s stand-alone carbon market.

Africa's voluntary carbon market needs technology transfer from the Global North to keep up with increasingly demanding carbon credit methodologies and to demonstrate integrity, a Ghanaian advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told Carbon Pulse Thursday on the sidelines of the IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC.

Record output of renewable energy pushed prices down across the main grid in the first quarter, with the exception of the most coal dependent state grid.

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