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UN scientists will reveal a new methodology for carbon capture and removal technologies and to help inform national climate plans, the chair of the IPCC told an international summit.

An overheated property market, education taxes and more expensive healthcare – successive governments have left a bitter legacy for millennials

When asking “Who screwed the millennials?” should we just apply Occam’s razor and answer “John Howard”? His government certainly shoulders a lot of blame but so do those who have done nothing to help since he was voted out.

The earliest millennials will be 70 in 2050, meaning almost all will be working when the world is forecast to reach temperatures more than 2C above pre-industry averages unless we do something.

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European carbon allowance prices jumped sharply on Monday morning in close alignment with strong gains in natural gas markets, as the front-December EUA contract reached its highest in two months and breached long-standing technical resistance levels.

Incentives for sustainable forest management and recycling are urgently needed to mitigate the biodiversity impact of paper production, as forest ecosystems have come under increasing pressure due to logging and the industry's extensive use of chemicals, a study has said.

A major agricultural lender in Japan has teamed up with two domestic partners to promote the commercialisation of cow feed additives using red seaweed, aiming to reduce methane emissions from cow burps and restoring marine ecosystems.

A multinational energy and commodity trading company has financed a voluntary carbon project pipeline worth 75 million issuances by 2030, it confirmed in a sustainability report.

Europe’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will hit 75% of Malaysian exports to the region but less than 10% of total exports for 2021-23, according to local news citing figures from the government released Monday.

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.