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The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Monday announced $1.1 billion in conditional federal grants to help prevent early closure of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant, the last-remaining nuclear reactor in California and a major source of zero-carbon electricity under the state’s carbon market.

EDF is seeking a Director, Voluntary Carbon Markets and Accountability, to identify strategic opportunities for advancing the use of high-integrity voluntary carbon markets to achieve near-term climate action; to manage related advocacy efforts; and to collaborate across EDF mission areas.

ACT reaps benefit of locking in prices for its net 100 per cent renewable supply, receiving bonus payment of $32 million in last quarter as prices surge in rest of country.

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Climate-related finance demands are very likely to grow in the coming weeks and months, as nations meet in high-stakes nature negotiations in Montreal, and discussions escalate elsewhere on broader global-financial-system reform pursuant to the climate crisis.

Bioarchitecture draws on design principles from nature to construct buildings that work in ways that help tackle climate change and reverse environmental damage. Aysu Kuru, Lecturer in Architecture and Construction, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU should made a swift exit from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) rather than the “reflection period” Brussels has advocated, a leading EU Parliamentarian on the issue urged on Monday just ahead of a crunch meeting of Charter member countries.

It can be hard to grasp the changes climate change is bringing. To see it in your own life, look at the shifting seasons. Edward Doddridge, Research Associate in Physical Oceanography, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The rise in open interest in the N-GEO future and a slight uptick in the spot N-GEO proved the bright spots for a voluntary carbon market that remained stuck in the doldrums last week amid a lack of year-end mitigation demand.

Move comes after lawyers and MPs raised concerns about charitable status of Global Warming Policy Foundation

The Charity Commission has confirmed that it is reviewing a complaint about the Global Warming Policy Foundation after lawyers and MPs formally raised concerns about its charitable status.

GWPF exists to question policy around the climate crisis, and was set up by former Conservative chancellor Nigel Lawson, who has said that climate change is not a threat, but “happening very gently at a fraction of a degree per decade, which is something we can perfectly well live with”.

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The EU ETS reforms should replace free allocation with border measures more quickly and better take into account resource saving to boost the market's effectiveness, a recycling industry group has urged as the latest round of legislator negotiations looms.

Compliance offsets in Washington state’s cap-and-invest programme that kicks off in January will garner robust demand and competitive prices, but officials must incorporate lessons-learned and other changes to the California-modelled carbon market design in order to attract project developers from the voluntary market, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Just Stop Oil campaigners were held on remand after charges relating to M25 protests

More than 30 climate activists were behind bars in UK prisons while diplomats from around the world negotiated at the Cop27 UN climate talks in Egypt.

Most of the activists, all supporters of the Just Stop Oil campaign, were held on remand after being charged with causing a public nuisance, or conspiracy to cause a public nuisance, in relation to disruptive protests on the M25 motorway.

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EUAs got off to a robust start to the week on Monday, with prices climbing as much as 3.2% in the morning as demand appeared to be returning to screens, while energy prices were boosted by forecasts for cooler weather across northern Europe.

Efforts to achieve CO2 emissions and clean energy targets have made China the world leader in deploying renewable energy and nuclear power, but have not yet been sufficient to peak the country's CO2 emissions from fossil energy consumption, a report published on Monday found.

Exclusive: Most important antibiotics for human health still used in supply chains of major US food companies, risking spread of superbugs

Suppliers of beef to McDonald’s, Taco Bell and Walmart are sourcing meat from US farms that use antibiotics linked to the spread of dangerous superbugs, an investigation has found.

Unpublished US government records obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian show farms producing beef for meat packing firms Cargill, JBS, and Green Bay are risking public health by still using antibiotics classed as the “highest priority critically important” to human health (HP-CIAs).

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Taiwan should allocate more resources to explore the potential of blue carbon, an emerging field that could absorb roughly one-third of the additional offsets from carbon sinks pledged by the government, an NGO report has found.

On a beach in Senegal with so much rubbish that much of the sand is covered, one man is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics

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A global developer of carbon credit projects has entered into a strategic partnership with a Melbourne-based firm to roll out offset projects in the Australian agribusiness sector.

Nasa's Orion capsule sets itself up to sweep past the Moon before entering into a larger orbit.

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