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Solar, wind and battery added to remote mine power facility, nearly eliminating diesel and delivering a big reduction in gas use.

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Finland is poised to become virtually coal-free years ahead of schedule, as utility Helen shut down its 177 MW Salmisaari coal plant in Helsinki on Tuesday, marking a landmark moment in the country’s clean energy transition.

Dutton tries to flatter potential nuke hosts - and then tries to scare everyone else.

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A collection of Canadian non-profits dedicated to safe food and forest management are calling on the federal government to cancel the use of a common forest pesticide.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Monday announced a new linkage rulemaking to update the state’s cap-and-trade programme, replacing an earlier attempt to align ongoing developments and address a wider range of topics.

A coalition of environmental groups filed a complaint on Monday against New York's environment ministry for alleged sudden and inexplicable delays in releasing regulations set by its climate law over five years ago.

Origin chooses not to tap taxpayer funds for first year of the extension of Australia's biggest coal generator, suggesting it is making enough money on market.

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Most of Australia’s plants rely on a hidden underground network of fungi for water and minerals. They could be in trouble – but we don’t have the data to know Adam Frew, Lecturer in Mycorrhizal Ecology, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Both major parties agree Australia must reach net-zero emissions. That’s why winding back the safeguard mechanism would be reckless policy. Felicity Deane, Professor of Trade Law, Taxation and Climate Change, Queensland University of Technology Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Brazil's national development bank and a state-owned oil giant launched an initiative Monday to support forest restoration in the Amazon via carbon credits, aiming to capture approximately 15 million tonnes of CO2.

A Colorado-based waste management company on Monday announced its launch of a division focused on in-house biochar production for credit generation.

The European Commission is exploring ways to soften the enforcement of its 2040 emissions target, as Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra seeks to placate concerns from industry and EU governments wary of stringent climate policies, news site Politico reported on Monday.

Germany raised over €5.5 billion from EU carbon allowance auctions for stationary installations and aviation last year, its ETS authority said in an annual report published Monday, amid robust primary demand.

Economy-wide carbon pricing, including carbon border adjustment mechanisms, presents the most efficient and economical way of reaching net zero, according to analysis recorded by the UK’s House of Lords upper parliamentary chamber.

You can forget the advice on disguises, secret codes and spreading propaganda by dropping leaflets in train carriages. But there is something for us all here about the need for action

The SOE Syllabus was a series of lectures given to prospective secret agents in Britain during the second world war. These “lessons in ungentlemanly warfare” were released from the top secret bit of the Public Record Office (now known as the National Archive) and published as a historical curio in 2001, when my esteemed colleague John Crace picked out the sillier bits in one of his Digested Read reviews. There was a whole lecture about how to craft a disguise, in which people with sticky-out ears were advised to use glue to pin them back.

But now, 24 years later, I have picked up the book with a graver purpose – just on the off-chance that if we end up having to resist a fascist state, the past might have something to offer. They won’t know everything, these ungentlemanly gentlemen, being as they didn’t have the internet. But they can’t have known nothing.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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The CORSIA Phase 1 carbon market remains stuck in a "wait-and-see" stance, with existing standardised contracts failing to move over the past week despite fresh, strong demand projections, and new CBL spot products announced for an April launch.

An Italian non-profit is seeking feedback on a framework for voluntary biodiversity credits, aiming to establish criteria for companies implementing nature restoration projects.

Switching from metallurgical coal-fired steel furnaces to using hot briquetted iron (HBI) made from green hydrogen could make huge cuts in steel sector emissions in Asia, but in order for nations to meet climate commitments they must halt the build of any new blast furnace-basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF), researchers have said.

India's securities regulator will allow listed companies to utilise green credits as part of its sustainability reporting requirements, even as the green crediting scheme has been taken to the Supreme Court over claims of harm to natural ecosystems.

Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. We’re running out of time to stop it

The world is running out of time to halt deforestation and forest degradation. Yet instead of stepping up, the United States is dismantling forest protections and undermining global progress – highlighting the dangers of global forest policy that fails to hold the wealthiest, most powerful countries accountable.

Unsustainable logging is one of the global north’s best-kept secrets. Each year, millions of acres of old-growth and primary forests across North America, Europe, and Australia are clearcut under the guise of “sustainable forest management”. International policy, by design, looks the other way, focusing attention instead on deforestation in the tropics. This double standard allows the world’s wealthiest nations to evade accountability for industrial logging’s catastrophic consequences.

Jennifer Skene is director of global northern forests policy for the Natural Resources Defense Council

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