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Ukraine will need an estimated $20 billion of investments to advance its renewable energy sector under a plan to increase its share in the country's energy mix to 27% by 2030, according to a government announcement this week.

WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s party

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If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.

That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.

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Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Voluntary carbon standard Verra will implement a new fee for projects under its consolidated VM0048 REDD methodology, it announced Wednesday.

Poland is starting a nearly €5 billion program funded by the European Union's recovery funds, to offer loans to developers of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, the state assets ministry and national development bank BGK announced on Tuesday. 

Major banks are far off track in meeting their climate targets and pledges are often less ambitious than they seem at face value, according to analysis published Wednesday.

A government report, obtained by a reporter from Australia's national broadcaster, found the Northern Territory government believes the gas industry will drive up its emissions by 100% even under a conservative scenario.

The European Commission has approved a Dutch plan to provide €700 million of state aid to compensate farmers for voluntarily closing their livestock farming sites to help cut nitrogen emissions, it announced on Wednesday.

Cambridge researchers are leveraging the capabilities of drones, lasers, and AI to try to transform the speed and accuracy of assessing biodiversity and carbon in forests.

Carbon ratings agency BeZero Carbon has this Tuesday issued its highest-ever rating for the first publicly evaluated direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS) project. 

Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs

The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds.

Should Trump retake the White House and pass the energy and environmental policies in the controversial Project 2025 document, the US’s planet-heating emissions will “significantly increase” by 2.7bn tonnes above the current trajectory by 2030, an amount comparable to the entire annual emissions of India, according to the report.

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India should include the power sector in its planned emissions trading scheme to make it more effective, as exempting it would leave 40% of national greenhouse gas emissions unregulated, according to a report released this week.

The Japanese government is considering establishing a biodiversity offsetting scheme similar to the biodiversity net gain (BNG) law in England to compensate for habitat degradation driven by flood control, chief researchers at the infrastructure ministry have told Carbon Pulse.

European carbon prices were moderately firmer on Wednesday morning after a re-emergence in buying interest after Tuesday's decline, shrugging off a weaker natural gas market as weekly position data showed investment funds had cut their bearish bets to the lowest in two months.

A group of 77 former world leaders and Nobel laureates is calling out governments for dropping any mention of fossil fuels and a just transition from the 'Pact for the Future' in negotiation ahead of an upcoming UN summit in New York.

A Russian gold mining company has been issued almost 2.2 million voluntary credits by the country’s national carbon registry for emissions reductions linked to cleaner energy usage.

South Korea’s latest monthly CO2 permit auction was undersubscribed even with the annual compliance deadline rapidly approaching, with analysts expecting the permit price to remain at relatively low levels due to a lasting oversupply in the market.

Exclusive: In 2024, 19 national temperature records have been set as weather extremes grow more frequent, climate historian says

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A record 19 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more frequent and climate breakdown intensifies.

An additional 130 monthly national temperature records have also been broken, along with tens of thousands of local highs registered at monitoring stations from the Arctic to the South Pacific, according to Maximiliano Herrera, who keeps an archive of extreme events.

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A group of academics have launched a community-focused standard for high-integrity carbon and biodiversity credits to address the growing demand for reliable markets, the team leader has told Carbon Pulse.