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The European Commission should extend the scope of its emissions monitoring tool on flights to also cover non-CO2 gases, according to a letter sent by airlines and NGOs on Monday to the Belgian presidency of the Council and the responsible Commission units.

Existing human-induced regeneration (HIR) carbon projects that get folded into Australia’s integrated farm land management (IFLM) method could see their credit issuance halved due to more stringent requirements, analysis has warned.

The EU’s carbon market diplomacy taskforce was formally launched on April 1 by the European Commission’s climate directorate and a new head has been appointed, an EU official confirmed.

A French-based environmental company has started piloting a biodiversity credit methodology for nature conservation and restoration projects in Mexico, with the first results expected by the end of October, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A newly-launched project aims at accelerating and scaling nature-positive efforts by businesses, financial institutions, and European governments.

Exclusive: Mukhtar Babayev says clear accounting crucial to build trust as developing world seeks trillions in support

Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for trillions of dollars of climate finance, the president of global climate negotiations has said.

Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan, who will lead the Cop29 UN climate summit in November, urged governments in developing countries to draw up reports showing their progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and their spending on the climate crisis.

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Germany has launched a search for contractors to assist the government of Kosovo in preparing for the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) and to establish a regional ETS in the Balkans.

Global investment in clean technology manufacturing surged to $200 billion last year, a 70% increase from 2022, with solar manufacturing capacity already aligned with the deployment levels required in 2030 to achieve net zero emissions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said in a report released Monday.

A Japanese startup has launched a rating service for projects in the country's national offset programme in a bid to bring much-needed transparency to the domestic carbon market.

The New Zealand government is mulling whether to include the emissions from international flights and shipping to its emissions target, and is seeking public feedback and submissions in a first for the nation.

Japan has given the green light to the registration of 32 projects under the J-Credit scheme, which could generate nearly 1.7 million carbon credits over their lifetimes, as the country continues its efforts to boost domestic offset issuances.

A European developer of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) projects has inked a contract with a technology company worth 3.3 million tonnes, in the largest announced durable removals deal in terms of volume to date.

Japan and Brazil have pledged to work together to fight climate change, with plans covering the protection of the Amazon rainforest and the development of sustainable fuel.

One of Southeast Asia’s few planned mandatory carbon credit markets is ramping up its work after the prime minister signed a new directive at the end of last week.

Amory Lovins says energy efficiency is a continuous spectrum that keeps rapidly evolving, and better design is twice as efficient as the gains from just dropping fossil fuels.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: How to make energy efficiency great again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists from three research stations on the Great Barrier Reef have shared sobering accounts of the damage inflicted by the latest marine heatwave.

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More Australian superannuation funds are excluding so-called "climate wreckers" from their portfolios.

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Most of us just take it for granted. But bark is one of the most complex parts of a tree and has many different jobs to do. Gregory Moore, Senior Research Associate, School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The contested Humelink transmission line was originally designed to connect Snowy 2.0. But its bigger purpose may be to connect the huge south-west renewable zone.

The post Humelink needs two lines, not one, now that south west renewable zone is its raison d’être appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian hydrogen company has signed a binding agreement to build a commercial scale production facility in Canada, as the spread between spot generic and human-induced regeneration (HIR) credits returns.