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In Dec. 2020, WWF published a 'Blueprint for Corporate Action on Climate and Nature', setting out a vision for how companies should follow the mitigation hierarchy to address the climate emergency, informed by science and the Paris policy environment. Here are Gold Standard's key takeaways for the voluntary carbon market.

China’s environment ministry on Wednesday released a guidance document on climate change and air pollution, which in time could have a significant impact on the status of the national emissions trading scheme.

Project using large beasts to help restore woodland offers unprecedented job opportunity

Can you handle a beast as heavy as a small car, that can hurdle high fences from a standing start, and is a peaceful bulldozer for biodiversity?

If you’re not intimidated by the weightiest wild land mammal in Europe, you could become Britain’s first ever bison ranger.

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EUAs slid below €34 early on Wednesday for the first time in four sessions, continuing the retreat from Tuesday's record high amid a major pullback in gas prices and signs of a technical reversal in carbon, as data showed the influx of participants into the market continued.

A new clean air law could see burning house coal banned in Wales, and stricter rules on using wood fires.

A third of the allowances on offer at 2021’s first South Korean carbon auction were left unsold on Wednesday as the market continues to be gripped by bearish sentiment.

Scientists say temperatures likely to be increasing faster than at any time in past 2,000 years

• Analysis: why are ocean warming records being broken year after year?

The world’s oceans reached their hottest level in recorded history in 2020, supercharging the extreme weather impacts of the climate emergency, scientists have reported.

More than 90% of the heat trapped by carbon emissions is absorbed by the oceans, making their warmth an undeniable signal of the accelerating crisis. The researchers found the five hottest years in the oceans had occurred since 2015, and that the rate of heating since 1986 was eight times higher than that from 1960-85.

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Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) prices in the secondary market are likely to tick up this year as pressure continues to mount on the government to tighten climate policy settings, analysts said Wednesday.

When Taal volcano, a popular tourist site in Batangas, erupted a year ago 5,000 people fled the island. It’s still considered dangerous. The government bans former residents from returning but some still live there in tents

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One of these compact little waders has been hanging around my patch for a year, but it’s not easy to spot

Some rare birds stay put for just a few hours; others stick around for months, or even years. But that doesn’t always make them easy to see.

Since a Kentish plover was first found in Somerset on Boxing Day 2019, it has been seen occasionally on Stert Island, opposite my coastal patch. It disappeared for the summer, then returned in October to spend the winter with a flock of ringed plovers. But at a distance, it can be very hard to pick out.

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Australian researchers, in a world first study, find predicted future levels of CO2 concentrations could harm the development of young lungs.

The post Increased CO2 levels could be risk to young lungs, Australian scientists find appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Humanity is destroying Earth’s ability to support complex life. But coming to grips with the magnitude of the problem is hard, even for experts. Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University Daniel T. Blumstein, Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles Paul Ehrlich, President, Center for Conservation Biology, Bing Professor of Population Studies, Stanford University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

If you assume climate change is playing a significant role in the Energy Security Board’s deliberations over the optimum design of the future market, you would be wrong.

The post Climate Change? Nothing to see here, says ESB appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Carbon storage at Chevron's massive Gorgon LNG plant hampered by sand contamination which may result in increased greenhouse gas emissions.

The post Sand clogs up Australia’s only operating carbon capture project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

BHP to partner with Toyota Australia on trial of new light electric vehicle (LEV) at its Nickel West operations in Western Australia.

The post BHP and Toyota to partner on light electric vehicle trial appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Exclusive: applications to explore Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre basin submitted by energy company last July but previously unreported

The energy company Origin wants to search for fossil fuels across 225,000 hectares of the Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre basin in Queensland’s channel country – part of one of the world’s biggest free-flowing river systems.

The company is waiting to hear if the Queensland government will grant the applications for 10 petroleum leases, which were submitted in July last year but have not been previously reported.

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Australia's carbon prices fell throughout 2020, but 2021 could be a turning point for international climate policy, Reputex analysis suggest.

The post Australia’s carbon prices dip, but traders expect more pressure to strengthen emissions targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An ambitious approach to managing thermal plant exits could deliver reliability ensuring emissions are reduced within a reasonable timeframe.

The post Energy Security Board reforms need to be ambitious to secure a low emissions future appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A male White's seahorse has been filmed giving birth to dozens of babies ... yes, a father giving birth. Seahorse females deposit their eggs into a pouch in the front of the males, where the eggs are fertilised.

More than 100 seahorse babies have been born in a Sydney aquarium as part of a captive breeding program to help save the endangered White's seahorse. The breeding program is a collaboration between Sea Life Sydney Aquarium, Fisheries NSW and the University of Technology Sydney

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