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The Swedish Energy Agency (SEA) and the Rwandan Ministry of Environment signed an MoU on Thursday for a cooperative partnership under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Vermont officials held a public webinar Thursday detailing their legislatively-mandated study on the potential of a state cap-and-invest programme to drive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reductions.

The share of EU ETS-regulated installations and aircraft operators that are in non-compliance with the scheme has dropped below 3% for the first time in four years, after the annual permit surrender deadline was extended by five months.

Japan's regional energy transition initiative featuring the promotion of nascent technologies could in turn deepen developing countries' reliance on coal or liquefied natural gas (LNG), according to a report released Friday.

A project in Melbourne’s Royal Park has proved city parks and streets can be used as sites for nature repair that help endangered ecosystems and species to survive. Katherine Horsfall, PhD Candidate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A national laboratory of the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Wednesday that it has awarded over $71 million to 16 regional direct air capture (DAC) hub projects across the US.

Changing the narrative, such as dropping ‘offsetting’ language, will be crucial to navigating a successful transition away from years of scandal for the voluntary carbon market, but this will be contingent on the sector coming together and controlling the narrative, experts told a conference this week.

Peru supports voluntary carbon market (VCM) growth and will work with the private sector to boost domestic supply and demand, according to two newly-appointed officials heading up public agencies.

Analysts from a consultancy have slashed their forecast for UK Allowance prices in 2025 by 9% and their 2026 outlook by 13% after the British market regulator sought views on a plan to delay the start of the market's second compliance phase by one year to align any changes in supply with the start of the country's carbon border tariff.

Washington’s Department of Ecology (ECY) detailed preliminary proposals for revisions to its Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) protocol under its cap-and-trade programme, incorporating changes to increase stringency based on the best available science.

An international carbon standard based in Colombia has applied to the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) for programme eligibility under its Core Carbon Principle (CCP) system.

Determining “high integrity” in nature-based credits remains a major challenge even with ongoing reforms to carbon standards, experts told an industry conference on Wednesday.

The UK government is poised to confirm around £22 billion of funding over 25 years for two carbon capture and hydrogen clusters on Friday, after years of promises, according to a news report.

Europe will likely need to import more liquefied natural gas next year, tightening global gas fundamentals, if Russian gas supplies through Ukraine are stopped entirely, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned.

Hepworth in West Sussex replaces boiler with prototype generating 130C steam that could cut fuel costs by 40%

An independent brewery in West Sussex is poised to become the first in Britain to make its beer using an ultra-high-temperature heat pump in place of an oil boiler.

Hepworth Brewery expects to cut the emissions from wort boiling – an essential step in beer-making to extract flavour – by using a heat pump that can produce steam at a temperature of up to 130C.

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The Indonesian government’s decision to reopen sea sand export is likely to plunge the Southeast Asian nation into a blue carbon crisis, and harm its marine biodiversity, a report released this week has warned.

A US environmental commodities platform provider announced Thursday the acquisition of a revenue management company’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) services.

Hundreds of arachnophiles flock to La Junta to watch the creatures emerge in droves and look for love on the plains

Love is in the air on the Colorado plains – the kind that makes your heart beat a bit faster, quickens your step and makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up.

It’s tarantula mating season, when male spiders scurry out of their burrows in search of a mate, and hundreds of arachnophiles flock to the small farming town of La Junta to watch them emerge in droves.

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Importing Brazilian iron briquettes made with green hydrogen could reduce carbon emissions by 80% and help the EU’s industry meet its climate target for 2030 while avoiding a social bloodbath, according to the European steel industry association.

Article 6 is meant to create a UN carbon crediting and trading system, but it can also support adaptation and the overarching New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) financing target at COP29, experts have told Carbon Pulse.