Feed aggregator

Airport’s chief executive to formally spell out expansion plans in speech at British Steel plant in Scunthorpe

Heathrow will submit third runway proposals to the government this summer, pledging to use UK steel and boost growth, the airport has confirmed.

Its chief executive, Thomas Woldbye, will formally spell out plans for a third runway to follow a multibillion-pound upgrade of the London airport’s existing terminals and facilities, in a speech at the British Steel plant in Scunthorpe on Wednesday.

Continue reading...

Backer of massive proposed green hydrogen hubs in W.A. - with nearly 100 GW of planned capacity - says newly passed production tax credit will be a "game changer."

The post “Game changer:” Biggest green hydrogen projects hail passage of tax credit scheme appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The chair of UN aviation agency ICAO's technical body has said that new Paris Agreement units will be assessed for the CORSIA scheme once the mechanism is ready.

The NT government has given billions of litres of water from the Roper River to irrigators. When will Australia start managing our rivers for the future? Quentin Grafton, Australian Laureate Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Anne Poelina, Professor and Chair Indigenous Knowledges & Senior Research Fellow Nulungu Institute of Research University of Notre Dame & Chair Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council, University of Notre Dame Australia Sarah Milne, Associate Professor, Head of Resources, Environment and Development Department, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Guatemala’s finance ministry has proposed allocating nearly 10% of a national budget increase toward the country’s carbon crediting programme.

The newly discovered fish has stripes on its face like the Studio Ghibli warrior princess.

The former head of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) who led the agency's efforts to oversee voluntary carbon market (VCM) derivatives left the agency last week, and has been replaced by an acting chair.

A Belgian-headquartered multilateral chemicals firm on Tuesday announced it has partnered with green group the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to meet nature targets aligned with the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Experts remain optimistic that European policymakers will not lose faith in the new EU Emissions Trading System for road and heating fuels (ETS2), despite growing headwinds driven by concerns about the public costs it could inflict, they said at a conference in Essen on Tuesday.  

Traders deliberated the impact of President Donald Trump’s first few weeks of unravelling US environmental policy on subnational carbon markets, as outsized option positions underpin participants’ hedging against negative outcomes, while longer-term policy shifts are yet to emerge after LA wildfires delayed California’s ETS rulemaking.

A public database of approximately 1,000 early-stage nature technology companies was launched on Tuesday by Paris-based organisations Motherbase and CDC Biodiversite.

A Brazilian carbon developer is planning to explore biodiversity credit opportunities in the Amazon and Atlantic forests, amid increasing corporate interest in nature-related claims, the company project director told Carbon Pulse.

Shipping companies are grappling to find the best way to comply with the EU's new fuel intensity regulation, as the sector's exposure to carbon policies more than doubles this year, and biofuels emerge as the most popular option.

A London-headquartered travel company has clinched a deal to acquire a batch of biodiversity credits generated through a nature restoration project in Portugal.

A European financial exchange operator has entered into an agreement with a specialised CDR marketplace and infrastructure provider that will develop a multi-year durable carbon portfolio, the companies announced on Tuesday.

The UK's solar power purchase agreement (PPA) market has thrived in recent years due to a rare alignment of market prices and seasonal conditions, but this 'lucky streak' is unlikely to continue, according to new analysis released on Tuesday.

European carbon traded largely sideways on Tuesday morning, after forecasts for milder weather triggered early weakness across the energy complex that was recovered by midday.

A high-level initiative led by governments and financial institutions should be established to expand insetting beyond just carbon, as deep transformation across supply chains is unlikely to happen unless businesses address their impacts on nature, a member of the International Platform for Insetting (IPI) has told Carbon Pulse.

The UK government has kicked off a second consultation on its guidance for future nuclear energy policy, seeking views on how to expand the policy's scope to enable small and advanced modular reactor technologies, it announced on Tuesday. 

The EU has an obligation to submit a 2035 climate target to the UN “well before” the COP30 climate summit in November, said a senior European Parliament member from the ruling European People's Party (EPP) – putting pressure on Brussels to deliver “as soon as possible”.