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The 1GW-plus project being developed by Alinta Energy and Parkwind – and intended to help power Portland aluninium smelter – has applied for a feasibility licence.

The post Alinta seeks licence to progress huge offshore wind plans in tiny Southern Ocean zone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A California-based biotech firm that utilises captured CO2 for protein production announced this week it has raised $18 million in Series A financing.

A large Canadian bank unveiled plans on Thursday to install heat pumps through its retail branch network across the country, which it estimates would reduce emissions by 70% from these locations.

State agencies need to improve their planning practices if New York is to reach its statutory clean energy goals, according to an audit released Wednesday by the state comptroller that provides a series of recommendations to do so.

Flagship carbon markets legislation may soon be joined by a bill to weigh in on digital assets, with experts interviewed Thursday expecting liftoff for a market in Bahamian credits owned and managed by the state.

A Vancouver-based global methanol producer and a Calgary-headquartered carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) project developer have announced a partnership to study reducing as much as 400 tonnes of CO2 per day from industrial production.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced Thursday that it would fund C$89.1 million ($65 mln) across ten nature-based emissions reductions projects, which also aim to conserve biodiversity.

The digital twin software can calculate how billions of rays of light – including light reflected off the ground – will affect solar panel output.

The post ARENA lobs $2m at hyper-accurate solar yield software appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Koalas in trouble, land clearing at speed – nature in New South Wales is not well. Now the government is proposing significant changes to its ineffective biodiversity laws. Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland Carolyn Hogg, Deputy Director, Sydney Environment Institute; Co-Lead Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

With buyers securing expensive, large-scale advance purchase agreements for engineered and nature-based carbon removals (CDR), carbon insurers are thinking beyond non-delivery policies and cash payouts to begin guaranteeing credit durability.

The UN body mandated to determine rules governing the Paris Agreement's carbon crediting mechanism has inched closer to providing a basis text for discussion at COP29, in one of the last opportunities to finalise recommendations ahead of the summit in November.

Some 65 companies are lining up to buy the first sovereign Article 6 carbon credits endorsed by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations (CfRN), which should be ready for sale in September or October, the organisation told Carbon Pulse Thursday.

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the snow-white birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

With their long, spoon-shaped beaks, it is perhaps little surprise that the RSPB has nicknamed the offspring of a spoonbill a “teaspoon”.

It has been a bumper year for the snow-white wading birds, which have been found nesting and breeding in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17th century.

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The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.

The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.

Verra will pause the review of new voluntary carbon methodology proposals until the first quarter of 2025 as it implements changes to its review process.

Union says members being ‘kept up at night’ over failure to commit to continue payments at current rate

Farmers are facing a “cliff edge” as the Labour government refuses to commit to maintaining the agriculture budget for England, the president of the National Farmers’ Union has said.

The issue is one of the first pressures Labour is facing over its tight fiscal rules, along with a rebellion on the party’s refusal to remove the two-child benefit cap.

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Industry, political groups and environmental NGOs largely welcomed Ursula Von der Leyen's re-appointment as European Commission President on Thursday, citing "continuity" and "stability" in Green Deal policies as reasons for optimism.

Organisers working to ensure safe environment for attenders in October after guerrillas’ warning of disruption

Colombian authorities have insisted it will be safe to attend a UN biodiversity summit in Cali later this year, after a dissident rebel group threatened to disrupt the event.

This week Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said the UN nature summit Cop16 would “fail”, in a post on X addressed to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow the biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X for all the latest news and features.

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A US-based NGO active in carbon markets has teamed up with an investor to scale funding into nature-based carbon removal projects linked to farming land, they announced Thursday.