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India-based carbon removal developer Circonomy has teamed up with a horticulture solutions provider to ramp up biochar carbon credits in the country.

Sir David Attenborough praises the "beauty" created by the BBC in its natural history shows.

The Clean Energy Regulator’s (CER) carbon, renewable energy, and nature unit registry that is currently in development is set to be finalised in November, according to its acting chair.

GridBeyond launches Process Optimizer to provide new opportunities for manufacturers to gain revenue and support the net zero transition.

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Australian thermal energy storage developer secures new investment from New York-based asset management firm The Lind Partners.

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Another spring day in Australia, another renewable energy record – this time, a new all-time high for the maximum contribution of rooftop solar to the mix of electricity in NSW.

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Climate summit host positioning itself as peacemaker but is accused of ethnic cleansing and imprisoning opponents

The host country of this year’s UN climate summit, Azerbaijan, has been accused of hypocrisy in calling for a global truce to coincide with the conference taking place.

Azerbaijan holds the presidency of the Cop29 summit, which will take place in its capital, Baku, from 11 November for two weeks. Heads of government from around the world are expected and more than 180 countries are likely to be represented.

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Azerbaijan is putting climate finance at the centre of its agenda for the COP29 summit in Baku, with a series of initiatives and outcomes aimed at drumming up more public and private money including from fossil fuel-producing countries and companies, it announced on Tuesday.

A koala has been spotted browsing the aisles of an IGA grocery store in regional Australia. Koalas are frequent visitors to the Victorian town of Meeniyan, population 840, but it's the first time one has entered the local supermarket. After 20 minutes exploring, the marsupial was carefully removed from the store with the help of a wildlife carer

• Hands off the koala: why cuddling Australia's iconic marsupial could soon be a thing of the past

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Head of sports charity hails partnership that allows local people to use London independent school’s football pitch

Children in the UK urgently need more easy-to-access green space, according to the head of a sports charity calling on private schools to open up their grounds.

Kieran Connolly foundeed Sports Fun 4 All, which offers free football sessions to children in south London, and now works with a local private school that opens up one of its football pitches for his teams.

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Snowy Hydro is seeking approval to run the Hunter Power Project entirely on diesel fuel in 2025, in a move that will send the hybrid gas plant's year-one emissions soaring by up to 80%.

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Studying carnivore ‘kill rates’ – typically the number of prey killed over time – can help us better understand the role of apex predators in ecosystems across the globe. Luke Emerson, PhD Candidate in ecology, Deakin University Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator (CER) said it will provide an update regarding the volume of carbon credits that have been released during the latest exit arrangement window.

Sir David Attenborough praises the "beauty" created by the BBC in its natural history shows.

The Brazilian state of Acre unveiled two technical working groups on Thursday to help align its jurisdictional REDD (J-REDD) framework with the ART TREES standard, one of only two voluntary crediting programmes approved for the UN CORSIA aviation offsetting scheme.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices plummeted nearly 15% over the past week as strong compliance demand through the summer begins to dry up heading into 'shoulder' season.

A large online e-commerce website has launched a platform to facilitate the sale of voluntary carbon credits, it announced Tuesday.

Ten companies met their scope 1 and 2 emissions reductions goals ahead of schedule, supported by a US Department of Energy (DOE) programme, the agency said Monday.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy will on Tuesday kickstart a global clean power coalition aimed at accelerating the clean energy transition, helping developing countries leapfrog fossil fuels, and turning the UK into a clean energy superpower.

A New Mexico coal-fired power plant has received $6.5 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of carbon capture and storage (CCS) on-site, the agency announced Monday, even though the region has recently struggled with CCS viability.