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A British forest carbon fund has received a grant of over £87,000 from the Scottish government's Peatland ACTION fund, aiming to prevent peatland from drying out and generating CO2 emissions, with the project set to generate credits under the country's Peatland Carbon Code.

Researchers at University of Exeter warn many of the hunted species are important crop pollinators

Invasive Asian hornets are eating hundreds of different species of insects in Europe, including many which are important pollinators, researchers have warned.

The findings, from tests of the guts of more than 1,500 larvae, raise new concerns over the “extra threat” the hornet poses to native insects already under pressure from farming, changes in land use and chemical pollution.

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Smaller developers have struggled more with biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements than larger companies, an executive representing the government’s nature adviser has said.

A London-headquartered provider of consulting and capital markets technology services on Tuesday launched a new environmental markets infrastructure platform designed to support governments in issuing, trading, and managing sovereign environmental assets.

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.

Experiments on mice could see hairy, genetically modified elephants living in the Arctic, a US company claims.

Charges under the UK Emissions Trading Scheme allocated to the energy from waste (EfW) sector should fully reflect the composition of the waste stream in question, in order to drive the intended carbon reduction in EfW feedstock and increase recycling rates, according to an industry body.

European carbon plunged to a new year-to-date low on Tuesday morning amid a wider sell-off in most markets after the US went ahead with plans to impose import tariffs on selected countries and the prospects of a peace deal in Ukraine appeared to recede.

The UK's ETS Authority recommends allowing market participants to bank their emission allowances between the current first phase of the scheme and the second phase beginning in 2031, officials confirmed on a recent webinar. 

US giant Google has launched its first accelerator for startups using technology to protect, manage, and restore biodiversity, amid continuous growth of the global nature tech market.

Governments in East Asia are accelerating the construction work for their emissions trading schemes, though participants are eager to see more policy clarity, experts told a conference Tuesday.

Malaysia on Tuesday unveiled a carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) bill in its house of representatives, establishing a regulatory framework to generate revenue from the technology.

The iceberg appears to be stuck and may start breaking up near the island of South Georgia.

Southeast Asian market associations are striving to ensure regional carbon market developments can align and harmonise with each other in order to build scale and ease of access, as governments are rapidly constructing infrastructure to meet their own domestic requirements.

The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows

Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests.

The cost of a dozen large eggs hit almost $5 in January – a record high in the US and more than two and a half times the average price three years ago before the avian flu outbreak. This signifies a 157% inflation rate for eggs – a previously go-to affordable protein source for many American families.

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Negotiations on the first-ever global treaty to tackle plastic pollution will resume in August in Switzerland after countries were unable to reach an agreement during talks in South Korea last December.

India will launch its voluntary carbon offset trading mechanism within six months as part of its Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), a senior government official told the Carbon Forward Asia conference in Singapore on Tuesday.

Transition carbon credits, generated from the retirement of coal-fired power plants, should be priced at a minimum of $30 per tonne of CO2e - well above Article 6 credits - to be viable, a conference heard Tuesday.

Labor's offshore wind plans are under fire from all corners of the conservative political and media landscape, as Peter Dutton succeeds in sowing FUD.

The post Offshore wind sector feeling the Dutton effect, even from the shadows of opposition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

It's common to see a group of blokes working away on a rooftop solar installation, but an all-women team? Not likely. 

The post First women-only rooftop solar project powers up in Victoria, sets higher bar for industry appeared first on RenewEconomy.