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The CO2 contained in construction materials – such as cement, bricks, and tiles – will be considered as “permanently chemically bound” for centuries and qualify as non-emitted under the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), according to new rules adopted over the summer.

Wind and solar investment improved in first half, but battery storage was again the breakout star.

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Turkish businesses are "not ready" to comply with the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to a carbon startup founder who warned some companies could go bankrupt if they don't plan ahead.

The German government said Monday that it will not need to order hard-coal plant closures from 2027 related to the tender process, with enough capacity already set to be taken offline due to market-driven forces, or already-implemented ban orders, in line with a legislated phaseout timeline.

EU carbon allowance prices were modestly weaker at midday on Monday as selling activity continued, while the EU began auctioning slightly more allowances each day after the amended schedule for the remainder of the year took effect and European energy markets corrected lower after sharp rises at the end of last week.

Scientists in Australia have developed a biodiversity monitoring method tailored to small landholders seeking to access the voluntary biodiversity credit market.

China has listed the first batch of voluntary carbon projects under the national offset programme for public consultation, moving one step closer to the issuance of new credits.

The Australian government on Monday launched a one-month consultation on some of the technicalities of its Nature Repair Market (NRM) scheme, including rules around project registration, biodiversity certificates, and the register.

Mandatory reports should be published on how taxpayer’s money is spent on environmental stewardship, says campaigner

Landowners in England have been paid more than £9bn of taxpayer’s money in the past 30 years for environmental benefits, despite the decline in nature that has taken place during that time, data reveals.

Nature campaigner and author Guy Shrubsole, who unearthed the data for his new book The Lie of The Land, said large landowners should be forced to publish regular reports showing how they are stewarding their land for nature and carbon.

The Lie of the Land is published on 12 September by HarperCollins.

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An Australian biodiversity credit provider has partnered with a carbon credit supplier for what they describe as a new environmental impact offering which combines traditional nature-based credits with one square metre of 20-year biodiversity protection.

Eight Japanese companies have partnered with the government of Hamamatsu City to generate Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)-certified credits using the Improved Forest Management (IFM) methodology, according to a press release.

A major gas supplier in Japan has agreed to invest up to $25 million in an international climate fund that seeks to create a pipeline of nature-based carbon credits.

Scientists are trying to establish whether global heating caused the deaths of the rare river dolphins last year, before temperatures start to rise again

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Set near photographer Benjamin Youd’s home in Sussex, River Story looks at the changing seasons and humans’ relationship with water

• River Story is exhibiting at ONCA Gallery in Brighton, 5 to 14 September

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The most powerful battery in Australia, and biggest single power unit ever to be connected to the country's main grid, has completed the first stage of its connection and commissioning process.

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The share of coal power falls below 50 per cent average for whole week, for the first time in what industry observers are hailing as a "turning point."

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The upcoming New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) auction is unlikely to clear, or if it does, only partially, as participants had mixed views on how this would affect market sentiment.

As Australia’s south-east states reel from intense winds, many of us wonder if the trees near us are safe. Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The new government must use its landslide majority to mend the damage to jobs and fish populations caused by neglect

It is a lonely and unglamorous job, being His Majesty’s official opposition, as Labour knows only too well. There were moments when, out of the spotlight, the party’s spokespeople in parliament heroically defended the public interest on some of the most important issues of the day. One example was during the post-Brexit Fisheries Act, where Labour made a formidable case that history has proved right. The question now is whether Labour will use its landslide majority to fix the extraordinary neglect of our marine environment that it previously lacked the votes for.

Back in 2020, when the fisheries bill was making its way through parliament, Labour’s fisheries spokesperson, Luke Pollard, made the case that the prime objective of the bill should be sustainability: there should be a duty on ministers to take the advice of scientists when allocating fishing opportunities so as to avoid overfishing. He also argued that as the right to fish was a public asset, which ministers conceded during the course of the bill, preference should be given to the part of the fleet which had the highest levels of employment and the lowest environmental impact: the smaller boats, whose activities are limited naturally by the weather.

Charles Clover is the co-founder of the Blue Marine Foundation

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Zero Emissions Noosa is the only non-industry group in Queensland to receive a federal grant for a community battery.
Co-convenor Vivien Griffin discusses why they are so important.

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