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ICAO has requested that voluntary carbon projects account for the supply risk if a host country revokes its authorisation for credit use in CORSIA as a condition for approving standards for the current 2024-26 phase of the international aviation offsetting scheme, after no new issuing bodies were given the green light at a key meeting last week.

The European Commission is looking at regulatory and financial incentives to support carbon removal technologies, a senior EU official has confirmed, insisting though that removals should be used as “a complement, not a substitute” to emission reductions.

The Beijing municipal government has released revised management rules for carbon trading under its local emissions scheme, adding more legal clout to back the operations of the pilot market.

Two carbon capture tech companies have signed an agreement to collaborate on developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects for the US and Canadiam pulp and paper industries, they announced Monday.

Turkey’s 8th National Antarctic Science Expedition is seeking answers to questions about the future of the world with 22 different projects on the continent. Anadolu Agency’s photojournalist Sebnem Coskun is documenting the expedition’s scientific research, climate change impacts and life in the region to share the findings with the world.
The expedition involves uncovering concealed data within the ice, gathered from years of research on crucial topics like sea ice and glacier dynamics.

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An international charity organisation is partnering with an Australian project developer and advisory to develop nature-based carbon projects in the Asia Pacific, with a focus on benefitting children, it announced.

To achieve net zero, we need an exit plan for everyone where no home is left behind on spiralling price rises and the unplanned decline of the fossil energy system. Here's what we propose.

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Alice Springs' complex isolated grid could provide roadmap on how to manage system and regulatory change as well as technology in the transition to renewables.

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Squadron Energy to set up a fund to allow members of the local community to invest in two wind farms in central New South Wales.

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Less than a year after the Rye Park wind farm began generation from its enormous turbines, the last of 198 blades has arrived at the NSW site.

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Malaysian infrastructure giant turns its focus to renewables, with plans to build up to 2GW of wind and solar projects within five years.

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Activist shareholder group Market Forces has called on retirement fund AustralianSuper to put heat on Woodside Energy’s development plans at its April annual general meeting to be held in Perth.

The closure of Australia’s coal-fired power stations will be challenging. The car industry experience provides lessons on how to protect workers and families. Vigya Sharma, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Julia Loginova, Research fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

While sentiment and confidence in Australia has improved thanks to significant climate policy progress, investors are waiting on the government to provide clear timelines on phasing out fossil fuels, a survey has found.

Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.

Two long duration battery technologies will be tested on remote microgrids in trial of how alternatives to lithium can be used to integrate solar in off-grid communities.

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The vast majority of investors do not see nuclear power as a good investment, with less than one in 10 exploring this technology, new survey finds.

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Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements

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The Albanese government has kept a lid on dissent over changes to the approval process for offshore gas projects, but a late internal push has seen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, regain a power to prevent consultation rules being watered down.

While the resources minister, Madeleine King, had labelled claims she was taking over environmental approvals a “conspiracy theory”, widespread opposition from the Greens, the crossbench, First Nations activists and environmental groups spurred an informal Labor pro-climate group into action.

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African Verreaux’s eagle owl to make final flyover during Easter holidays before move to Yorkshire Dales

Any night owl who has spent 30 years of working all day would be dreaming of retirement.

Such is the case for Ernie, an owl with a “big personality”, who will be quitting after delighting guests at Warwick Castle for three decades.

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Keir Starmer will need to make it affordable to be an artist, because the value of art is beyond financial metrics

Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated catering cyborgs from a Russian science fiction novel, sleeping in pods, dreaming of electric sheep. But today that system seems benign compared with the housing poverty of Sunak island.

In Aspen, the famous comedians were domiciled in luxury hotels. I was in a cheap motel on the edge of town, where I breakfasted daily with a quartet of equally undervalued underground comic book writers, regarded as witless savants nonetheless capable of providing content by the predatory industry vampires. Daniel Clowes told me the contents of his Oscar ceremony goody bag – the film of his Ghost World comic was nominated – were worth more than everything he had earned as a writer to that point.

Stewart Lee’s Basic Lee is at Cambridge Arts theatre 15-16 April

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