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Credits from a well-known REDD project traded at $11 in the first auction on Wednesday to help set a broker's new index price for the avoided deforestation sector, far higher than equivalent prices for standardised nature-based futures on CME.

Farmers who have taken regenerative approach hail birds as indication of ecosystem health

Almost as soon as Johnny Haimes took up regenerative farming – replacing arable fields with herb-rich pasture so cattle could graze outside all year round – a distinctive white bird appeared on his pasture.

Numbers of cattle egrets are booming in Britain, boosted by wildlife-friendly farming where cows are grazed on gentle rotations designed to improve soil quality and boost invertebrate populations.

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Low-cost carrier EasyJet expects its European flight demand to return to pre-pandemic levels as early as the second half of 2023, it said in quarterly results published Wednesday that featured strong passenger and booking numbers for Q4 2022 that may have offered some marginal support to carbon credit prices.

European carbon recovered to post a small increase at midday after earlier extending the previous day's drop to the lowest in a week, as gas and power prices continued to decline.

Increase in reports of the Asian koel and its loud mating call south of its usual territory may be attributable to climate change, scientists say

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Climate change may be one reason why the so-called devil bird – known for its incessant late-night mating call – has become more common in Melbourne’s outer suburbs, according to researchers.

The koel, a migratory bird, usually arrives in Australia from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia to breed from late September to early October, when the male will sing his advertising call day and night to attract a female.

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Calls for mandatory measures to reduce underwater noise as melting ice opens up shipping routes, threatening wildlife

For centuries, narwhals and ringed seals have provided food for Inuit communities on the ice floes of Mittimatalik, or Pond Inlet, on northern Canada’s Baffin Island. But now, the Inuit – who have hunted, trapped and fished in the region since long before the Hudson Bay Company opened its first Arctic trading camp here in 1921 – say they no longer find the narwhals where they should be. They say shipping noise is to blame.

Researchers have likened the passing of a single ice-breaker, increasingly present in the Arctic, to an underwater rock concert. Ship noise can be caused by everything from propellers to hull form to onboard machinery. It can disrupt activities that marine mammals need to survive, by shrinking their communication space, causing stress and displacing them from important habitats.

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The UK branch of Dutch-headquartered Triodos has loaned £3.75 million to a rewilding charity in the UK for its first of many planned landholding acquisitions meant for nature reserves across the country.

Oil and gas major Shell has delivered a GHG neutral LNG cargo to Taiwan’s national oil company CPC, the first delivery aligned with the industry’s recently established framework for the monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) of GHG emissions associated with such shipments.

The world is "recklessly" ignoring the full impact of wildfires that contribute to one-fifth of current global CO2 emissions, according to a report published Wednesday by an environmental technology firm.

Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance add their voices to Richard Curtis’s Make My Money Matter campaign

Famous names including Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Mark Rylance have joined activists and businesses in calling on the UK’s big five banks to stop financing new oil, gas and coal expansion.

Make My Money Matter, a campaign set up by Richard Curtis, the screenwriter, director and Comic Relief co-founder, has written to the chief executives of HSBC, Barclays, Santander, NatWest and Lloyds to urge these banks to “stop financing fossil fuel expansion”.

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Nearly 100 coal-fired power plants will begin participating in Indonesia’s newly-introduced carbon trading scheme, marking the first of three phases for the sector to cut its emissions to help meet the country’s NDC targets, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has announced.

Coal and gas are in a long structural terminal decline, renewables are booming and pushing expensive, unreliable, polluting fossil fuels out of the market.

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And now I’m supposed to use an induction stove like some sort of animal?! It isn’t fair!!

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Queensland says $75 million facility represents a "Eureka" moment for the shift to critical minerals to support renewables and battery storage.

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RES has begun dipping its toes into the battery market, and has added another storage project to the growing pipeline in the Hunter Valley.

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The Energy Security Board's board favoured solution to grid access is widely opposed. Energy ministers must tell it to move on and focus on something useful.

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Woodside nearly doubles fourth quarter revenues as fossil fuel majors continue to cash in on soaring oil and gas prices.

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Researchers believe gestures used by chimps and bonobos were a "starting point" for our language.

Germany lifts maximum support rates for ground-mounted solar system tenders by 25 per cent to help meet new solar targets.

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