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French renewables and battery developer says it has raised more than $1.1bn in new debt finance for its Australian assets, including the four-hour battery being built in Western Australia.

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BC’s ministry of finance anticipates reduced revenues from the provincial carbon tax but will allocate more funding to quarterly rebates for eligible residents, according to government documents published Thursday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices held near their record highs on thin volume over the past week, as participants anticipated more movement ahead of the Q1 auction next month.

French energy giant EDF splans to build a pumped hydro project in the New England region of NSW after buying the asset from Walcha Energy.

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Italian oil giant’s plans to produce thousands of tonnes of biofuel crops in Africa is falling short, an NGO’s study reveals.

California electricity sector CO2 emissions continued to dip to record lows in January, even as natural gas maintained its historically high share of the state's energy supply, data published Friday showed.

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A trade deal between Brussels and four members of the South American Mercosur economic group would compromise UN agreements and EU law, according to a legal analysis issued Monday.

Egypt has defined the legal status of voluntary carbon credits to be traded in the North African country ahead of moves to harmonise a standard set of principles internationally.

Tuesday's vote by the full European Parliament's house on a bill to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and sea areas by 2030 is expected to be a 'rubber-stamping' exercise, although farmers' discontent with EU green policies, red tape, and lack of funding has been tearing Brussels apart.

US-based agtech firm Indigo Ag has completed its third carbon crop, more than doubling its post-buffer pool offset supply, it said Monday, while also announcing a new partnership that is expected to expand its network of credit buyers.

A huge number of African REDD voluntary carbon credits were retired by an oil and gas major last week, but spot activity was thin and trading generally lacklustre as prices kept steady.

An international consultancy has become the first voluntary carbon credit buyer to make a claim for the highest grade available under the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity (VCMI) initiative's code of best practice.

The world's largest food conglomerate Nestle has published its 2023 sustainability report pledging to reach and maintain 100% deforestation-free primary supply chains by 2025.

Belgian capital blocked by 900 tractors amid protests throughout bloc demanding policy changes

Farmers have clashed violently with police in the European quarter of Brussels, spraying officers with liquid manure and setting fire to mounds of tyres, while the EU’s agriculture ministers met to discuss the crisis in their sector.

As farmers also protested in Madrid and on the Polish-German border, at least 900 tractors jammed streets in the centre of the Belgian capital, police said, with protesters throwing bottles and eggs and setting off fireworks while riot police fired water cannon.

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Space agency Jaxa said the craft re-established communication after the equivalent of two Earth weeks without Sun.

The financial sector must step up and participate in the process of reforming subsidies that are harmful to nature, Colombia's environment minister has said, as the government prepares to host UN biodiversity talks later this year.

Some carbon pricing policies are better suited than others for the different countries in Latin America, according to experts, as the region branches out from purely voluntary models.

Fears for penguin colonies after the discovery of the highly contagious H5N1 virus in two dead skuas

Bird flu has reached mainland of Antarctica for the first time, officials have confirmed.

The H5N1 virus was found on Friday in two dead scavenging birds called skuas near Primavera Base, the Argentinian scientific research station on the Antarctic peninsula.

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Bathing water status means government is obliged to test water quality throughout summer

Twenty seven new bathing sites are being considered for England, but campaigners have said that swimming remains dangerous in many areas because of the pathogens caused by sewage dumping.

If all of these sites are granted, it will be the largest ever number of bathing sites in rivers, lakes and coastal areas approved in one year. Activists campaign for bathing water status because it means the government is obliged to test the quality of the water throughout the summer months.

Church Cliff beach, Lyme Regis, Dorset

Coastguards beach, River Erme, Devon

Coniston boating centre, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Coniston Brown Howe, Coniston Water, Cumbria

Littlehaven beach, Tyne and Wear

Manningtree beach, Essex

Monk Coniston, Coniston Water, Cumbria

River Avon at Fordingbridge, Hampshire

River Cam at Sheep’s Green, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

River Dart estuary at Dittisham, Devon

River Dart estuary at Steamer Quay, Totnes, Devon

River Dart estuary at Stoke Gabriel, Devon

River Dart estuary at Warfleet, Dartmouth, Devon

River Frome at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset

River Nidd at the Lido leisure park in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

River Ribble at Edisford Bridge, Lancashire

River Severn at Ironbridge, Shropshire

River Severn at Shrewsbury, Shropshire

River Stour at Sudbury, Suffolk

River Teme at Ludlow, Shropshire

River Tone in French Weir Park, Taunton, Somerset

Wallingford beach, River Thames, Berkshire

Derwent Water, Crow Park, Keswick, Cumbria

River Wharfe at Wetherby Riverside, West Yorkshire

Goring beach, Worthing, West Sussex

Worthing Beach House, Worthing, West Sussex

Rottingdean beach, Rottingdean, East Sussex

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