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A supplier of equipment and measurement of GHG leaks announced Monday funding for a tree planting programme as part of its 2030 emissions reductions goals.

Wildebeest herds churning dust. Sturgeon seeking spawning grounds. Shorebirds flying from Siberia. These iconic animal migrations could soon be a memory. Richard Fuller, Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland Daniel Dunn, A/Prof of Marine Conservation Science & Director of the Centre for Biodiversity and Conservation Science (CBCS), The University of Queensland Lily Bentley, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

By allowing a case against local greenhouse gas emitters to go ahead, the Supreme Court of New Zealand has opened the door to a new front in climate law – one that takes tikanga Māori into account. Vernon Rive, Associate professor, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Germany should introduce a climate bonus payment to return state revenues from carbon pricing to citizens as compensation for rising costs, according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

A Vancouver-headquartered nature-based carbon offset project developer announced Monday an agreement with a global project developer for a joint mangrove restoration project in a Mexican state with the potential to generate over 10 million credits.

Standardised voluntary carbon market prices continued on a sideways trajectory last week as participants mulled the work being done by the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM), while also awaiting clarity on which units will be eligible for the current CORSIA phase.

Scientists say global heating is driving ice loss and warmer water, as ice cover falls short of 50-year average of 18%

The average ice cover over the five Great Lakes was just 6% last month, placing it among the least icy Januarys since records began 50 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).

The Great Lakes – Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie and Ontario – are located at or near the US-Canada border, and are connected by a network of smaller lakes and rivers that span a combined surface area of 95,000 sq miles, making it the largest freshwater system in the world.

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Investor-State Dispute Settlements are legal, huge and often hush-hush – and fossil fuel firms and others are using them to hold the planet to ransom

• How a US mining firm sued Mexico for billions – for trying to protect its own seabed

What do you get if you cross the planet’s richest 1%, a global legal system adapted to their investment whims, and the chance to squeeze billions from governments? The answer is “Investor-State Dispute Settlements”, or ISDS, alternatively dubbed “litigation terrorism” by Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel prize-winning economist. ISDS is a corporate tribunal system, where a panel of unelected lawyers decides whether a company is owed compensation if the actions of national governments leave its assets “stranded”.

In hearings, which are often held behind closed doors, ISDS documents, claims, awards, settlements – even the content of cases – need not be made public, regardless of any public-interest considerations.

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Injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere could significantly curb sea level rise induced by global warming, according to researchers behind a new geoengineering study - who also question the reliability of carbon capture and storage (CCS).

The consultation and planning around the energy rollout has been lacking – so let’s knock the edges off and get investment that works for our communities

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I recently discovered the chest freezer in our shearer’s huts had blown up in a lightning strike. The power had been out for two weeks. It felt like a CSI plot: I’m the woman with the torch, pushing the creaky shed door open to find a cloud of blow flies hovering around a bad smell.

The little bastards had found a tiny breach in the freezer seal. I did my best rendition of Brad Pitt in Se7en – What’s in the box? When I opened the lid, even the maggots had gone to fly heaven. The vestiges of splendid homegrown lamb were a grey mush at the bottom of the freezer.

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EU carbon prices extended their losses for a fourth consecutive session on Monday, dropping to yet another 23-month low and breaching a key technical level as selling pressure sliced through buying interest before finding some support.

Optimism for the role of Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) in the EU’s future energy system abounds, but, with the nuclear technology still far from ready for the market, some warn that it may prove to be a "dangerous distraction".

A carbon project developer has teamed up with a Brazilian fertiliser company to scale enhanced rock weathering (ERW) removals, the firms said Monday.

An Australian startup on Monday said it is able to make near-zero emissions steel from lower grade iron ore.

The huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas will doom climate targets, experts say, but stemming them would rapidly reduce global heating

• ‘It’s impossible to breathe’ – life by Delhi’s towering landfills

There have been more than 1,000 huge leaks of the potent greenhouse gas methane from landfill waste dumps since 2019, the Guardian can reveal.

Analysis of global satellite data from around the world shows the populous nations of south Asia are a hotspot for these super-emitter events, as well as Argentina and Spain, developed countries where proper waste management should prevent leaks.

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The US Department of Interior has announced a $157-million spending package on ecosystem restoration projects in a bid to support nationwide efforts to drive funding towards degraded lands and waters and advance climate resilience.

One of the world's largest shipping container companies has become the first in the industry to have its emissions reduction targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) for a 1.5C-aligned pathway.

Indonesia goes to the polls Wednesday to decide its new president after two-term President Joko Widodo steps down, with former Suharto ally Prabowo Subianto the front runner.

Nearly half of the species listed under the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) are showing population declines while more than one in five are threatened with extinction, a landmark UN report revealed Monday.

A UK-based blockchain marketplace for carbon removals trading has launched an investment accelerator for new projects, it said Monday.