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Planning approval given for the Central-West Orana renewable energy zone, the first in Australia to achieve this step.

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The World Bank will award $700 million in loans for Egypt to support a greener growth trajectory, including the establishment of a voluntary carbon market (VCM) regulatory framework, according to a release Monday.

European energy firms dominated the list of top emitters under the EU ETS last year, with Polish utility PGE leading the charge, according to a report released Wednesday.

A group of Republicans in the US House and Senate filed an amicus brief in a federal appeals court siding with litigation against the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) contested climate regulation.

A European direct air capture startup founded by a former Tesla engineer has raised €6 million in a seed funding round.

The New Zealand government has appointed an independent review panel on the country’s methane science and targets, alongside its terms of reference, it announced Thursday.

Public ownership is back in vogue, after the Coalition promised publicly owned nuclear plants in a decade. The problem is, the public service has been hollowed out. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

California regulator the ARB issued its lowest number of offsets since the winter holidays in its most recent two-week issuance period, with the year-to-date pace now lagging behind 2023 numbers, agency data released Wednesday showed.

Credit retirements under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) programme may reach 10 million tonnes this year, matching offsets and Alberta Emissions Performance Credits (EPCs) generation, a research firm said Wednesday.

The world's biggest solar panel makers now produce vastly more useful energy than Big Oil.

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Canada’s C$15 billion ($10.9 bln) public investment vehicle has signed a carbon contract for difference (CCfD) with a municipal energy company at an initial strike price per tonne of CO2 for a 10-year term.

The Swiss industry agency arranging many Article 6 deals on the country’s behalf is aiming to support three kinds of mitigation projects in Chile, Carbon Pulse heard on the sidelines of a summit in Colombia on Tuesday.

Climate litigation is on the rise, according to analysis published Thursday, with filed cases focused increasingly on corporate greenwashing rather than governments, and a growing share involving the use of voluntary carbon credits.

A huge number of national and state-level jurisdictional REDD (J-REDD) carbon credits are set to burst onto the market, with buyers willing to pay a hefty premium above the private avoided deforestation sector, finds a new report.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that $8.5 million had been awarded to winners of the first round of the Natural Carbon Solutions Innovation Challenge, and that $13 mln was available for projects in the second round.

Robotaxi service recovering from gruesome collision with pedestrian that triggered suspension of California license

General Motors on Tuesday named a veteran technology executive with roots in the video game industry to steer its troubled robotaxi service Cruise as it tries to recover from a gruesome collision that triggered the suspension of its California license and the removal of all its robotaxis from the state’s roads.

Marc Whitten, one of the key engineers behind the Xbox video game console, will take over as Cruise’s chief executive nearly nine months after one of the service’s robotaxis dragged a jaywalking pedestrian – who had just been struck by a vehicle driven by a human – across a darkened street in San Francisco before coming to a stop.

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Increasing coral bleaching will be worst for the most biodiverse reefs along the equator, impacting the livelihoods and nutrition of the people who depend on them. Camille Mellin, Senior Lecturer and ARC Future Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Adelaide Damien Fordham, Associate Professor of Global Change Ecology, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Our purpose-built “frog saunas” allow amphibians to warm up in winter and bake off chytrid infections. You can even DIY and build a frog sauna for your own backyard with our step-by-step guide. Anthony Waddle, Schmidt Science Fellow in Conservation Biology, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Project developer C-Quest Capital (CQC) on Wednesday revealed it has uncovered wrongdoing by its founder and former CEO Ken Newcombe that resulted in the over-issuance of millions of voluntary carbon credits, and has subsequently reported the matter to US authorities and has fired a number of senior executives and staff at the Washington DC-based firm.

Days of flooding have submerged homes and farmland across South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota

At least two people have died as a result of devastating floods in the US midwest. Flood warnings remain in place across South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa and Minnesota as more rainfall and storms are expected to hit the region this week.

More than 3 million people have been affected by days of flooding that washed away homes and submerged vast swaths of farmland. On Sunday, a railroad bridge connecting Iowa and South Dakota collapsed from flooding.

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