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Chilean ministries are discussing policies that could further increase and diversify carbon retirements against a national CO2 tax on the heels of unexpectedly large offset volumes, and contemplating a role for voluntary credits in ETS designs, according to a top official.

One of the biggest solar farms in Queensland state has started to power up after being built seven months ahead of schedule.

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Right now, Australia is headed in the wrong direction. It is time for us to turn around and confront climate change and what it means. 

The post Our uncommon future: How disunity, fear and sabotage threaten Australia’s climate future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Two experts describe how climate misinformation has infiltrated the election campaign – and how Australians can protect themselves as they head to the polls. Alfie Chadwick, PhD Candidate, Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub, Monash University Libby Lester, Professor (Research) and Director, Monash Climate Change Communication Hub, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Low-carbon hydrogen should be directed towards hard-to-abate industries like steel, glass, and chemicals production, as well as heavy-duty vehicles and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), but avoided in any sector that can be electrified such as personal transport and most home heating, said experts on a webinar about next steps for the UK’s hydrogen industry.

Voluntary carbon market (VCM) standard Verra released Tuesday a new module for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) under its carbon capture and storage (CCS) methodology.

Transitioning to a net zero or negative energy system can be 14-20% more expensive without biomass for energy production, and may simply be unattainable if Europe aims to achieve negative emissions in the long run, according to Swedish and German researchers.

A British company director has been banned for 11 years after hundreds of investors lost more than £8.5 million in two failed schemes linked to "green" teak plantations in Brazil.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has developed 11 indicators that financial institutions can use to assess the nature progress of their portfolio companies.

The holiday break took its toll on the voluntary carbon credits with liquidity and prices sliding last week, but the UK government gave a fillip to the market after throwing its weight behind integrity initiatives and the use of both reductions and removal credits to mitigate Scope 3 emission claims.

A carbon removal portfolio manager and marketplace will open a new request for proposals (RFP) to acquire large-scale volumes of credits next month on behalf of its corporate clients.

Blocking sunlight could temporarily slow the climate crisis but the technologies remain highly controversial

UK scientists are to launch outdoor geoengineering experiments as part of a £50m government-funded programme.

The experiments will be small-scale and rigorously assessed, according to Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the UK government agency backing the plan, and will provide “critical” data needed to assess the potential of the technology. The programme, along with another £11m project, will make the UK one of the biggest funders of geoengineering research in the world.

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Nature-based solutions (NbS), often aimed at tackling the climate crisis, are damaging biodiversity through greenwashing actions that require a radical rethink, Friends of the Earth International said Tuesday.

A Milan-based climate tech firm has offered up a small batch of ocean-based carbon removal credits at $680 per tonne via a blockchain marketplace.

EU carbon analysts struggle to see a political avenue for delaying the introduction of the new ETS2 emissions trading system, despite rising fears across several EU member states about the impact of the consumer-facing pricing mechanism.

A US-based dairy products manufacturer announced a deal Tuesday to purchase a batch of first-of-its-kind methane avoidance credits from an upstart project developer dedicated to diverting food waste from landfills.

A Copenhagen-based agtech firm announced Tuesday it has launched a transparency initiative aimed at boosting confidence in the voluntary soil carbon credit market.

While foreign countries may accept international credits to achieve their climate targets under the Paris Agreement, the EU is unlikely to consider allowing carbon removal (CDR) units for compliance under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) until the mid-2030s, according to an expert consultant.

As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct

Inflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less.

That’s one reason for concern over Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will disproportionately affect the poor. When the 90-day pause on the tariffs expires, it is reasonable to expect prices to rise, and by a lot.

Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. Nicolò Fraccaroli is a visiting scholar at Brown University.

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White-faced darters transported to South Solway Mosses as hotter summers dry out its bog pool breeding sites

With its chalk-white face and bright flame-coloured markings, the white-faced darter dragonfly is a distinctive sight as it flutters around England’s peat bogs.

The rare dragonfly, which breeds in mossy pools, is at threat of local extinction, but now conservationists are trying to end its population crash by introducing it into a remote corner of Cumbria.

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