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A cross-stakeholder carbon capture body has launched for public consultation its first four carbon accounting methodologies that have been developed under Verra's voluntary carbon VCS programme, spanning carbon capture and storage, direct air capture, saline solutions, and CO2 transport.

Conservationists suspect white-tailed sea eagles have been eating avian flu-infected prey.

New bins, scanners and miles of conveyor belts should help reduce waste, Cambridge University says.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values lurched higher in recent days to match levels before the EPA’s publication of final multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) quotas, as market participants pointed to increased refiner buying and a tighter surplus bank.

A US-based soil carbon project developer has put forth an idea for a new removal credit that combines immediately available nature-based tonnes with engineered technologies that will sequester CO2 at a later point.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) convened on Thursday a new task force to address environmental fraud and misconduct in carbon credit markets, as well as a team overseeing issues related to cybersecurity and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI).

Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections. Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Brett Murphy, Professor, Charles Darwin University John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The VCMI's new code for corporate buying will accept carbon credits currently trading below $1 based on an "understanding" of improved quality, while the cross-stakeholder body will soon develop special provisions for specific buyers.

Any financial reconstruction of Thames is simple. Shareholders and bondholders are on the hook

What did Sarah Bentley, the now ex-chief executive of Thames Water, mean when she warned repeatedly in her final months in the job that England’s largest water and wastewater company had been “hollowed out over decades”?

A benign(ish) interpretation is that she was merely reprising what everybody has known for years: that Thames was rinsed by its former owners, most notably the Australian financial outfit Macquarie, which was the dominant shareholder from 2006 to 2017. That was the period in which the company’s borrowings were increased towards today’s towering level of £14bn and the regulator Ofwat was reduced, more or less, to appealing for Macquarie to get out and make way for more far-sighted owners.

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Spain submitted a draft version of its revised national climate and energy plan (NECP) on Thursday a day ahead of the deadline, setting a good example as it prepares to assume the six-month EU presidency while others member states were expected to run late with their plans. 

How debris recovered from the sea bed near the Titanic could help investigators learn what happened.

Talks of introducing “indicative checkpoints” instead of legally binding 2030 and 2040 emissions targets at this week’s International Maritime Organisation (IMO)’s closed-door working meeting would put a 2050 zero emission target for the shipping sector at risk, NGOs have warned.

There is huge variation between corporates in terms of their exposure to carbon pricing both within and between sectors out to 2030, with not one industry equally impacted by the risk of rising prices, an analytics and financial products firm said on Thursday.

A US venture capital firm has extended its partnership with a carbon market startup, agreeing to buy 1,000 tonnes of emissions removals credits in the process.

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European carbon prices ignored weakness in other markets on Thursday morning, erasing much of the previous afternoon's loss, while energy prices declined for a second day despite forecasts for weaker renewables generation.

Heat pump costs, poor insulation and lack of workers hinder scheme but industry remains positive.

Exclusive: Other summer hotspots such as Devon and Cornwall also likely to face problems, leaked minutes show

Cumbria and the Lake District are likely to be plunged into drought, minutes from the government’s National Drought Group reveal, with reservoir levels in the regions having dropped significantly.

Other popular summer holiday destinations including Devon and Cornwall are also likely to be hit by water supply problems, the group heard, and holidaymakers may be be told to curb their use.

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Lesions found on 99% of southern resident orcas studied on Pacific north-west coast

Scientists studying an endangered population of orcas resident off the Pacific north-west coast of Canada and the US have recorded a “strong increase” in skin lesions on the animals’ bodies, which they believe is due to the decreasing ability of their immune systems to deal with disease.

The lesions appear on the whales as grey patches or targets, or black pin points. Some resemble tattooed skin. Their presence on the animals’ graphically black and white bodies is “increasing dramatically”, according to Dr Joseph K Gaydos of the SeaDoc Society at the school of veterinary medicine at the University of California, lead author of the scientific paper.

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