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Companies in the European Union will be banned from misleadingly marketing their goods as "carbon neutral", under a law endorsed by EU parliamentarians on Wednesday. 

EU carbon steadied at slightly lower levels on Wednesday morning as traders absorbed the weekly Commitment of Traders report and sought directional signals from a market that appears to have found a temporary floor, while energy prices continued to decline despite more reports of vessels being diverted away from the quickest route to Europe.

Growth in China’s thermal power generation in 2023 outpaced the growth of total power output amid continued coal expansion and a shaky economic recovery in the world's biggest emitting nation, government data showed Wednesday.

Carnegie Clean Energy has deployed a demonstration of its wave powered barge concept in waters offshore from the company's WA headquarters.

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A Derbyshire man who was caught on camera stealing peregrine falcon eggs has been jailed for 18 weeks. The footage was taken in April 2023 from a hidden camera put in place at a quarry near Bolsover by an investigations team at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Eggs from wild peregrine falcons can sell for tens of thousands of pounds overseas. Christopher Wheeldon, from Darley Dale, was seen abseiling down a cliff and stealing three eggs. He admitted to disturbing the nest and was sentenced in January

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My dad was completely flooded in on his boat, with just a ukulele and three potatoes to tide him over. A bad situation, certainly – but still a better bet, perhaps, than those of us living in bricks and mortar

My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, he is not a pirate – just a man with an expensive divorce and a public sector job, living in one of the most unaffordable cities in the UK.

This month, his mooring in Oxford was hit by the kind of flood described as “once in 100 years”. Except the same thing happened 10 years ago. And three years before that. All along the same stretch of water.

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A UK-based voluntary carbon credit marketplace announced another partnership with a ratings agency on Wednesday.

A Malaysia-based carbon offset developer has launched an avoided deforestation methodology for project developers to create high-quality carbon credits through the protection of forests.

A large voluntary carbon market project developer and advisory firm has found that the vast majority of surveyed companies still do not have a net zero emissions target in place, with 'greenhushing' seen as an increasing trend, in a report published this week.

A Dutch carbon project developer has updated its credit pipeline outlook, marking a 58% year-on-year rise with delivery volume reaching 1.8 million tonnes in 2030, it said in an update.

Drought in Hwange national park was the cause of most of the deaths, and wildlife experts fear the climate crisis could make such events look normal

At least 160 elephants have died as drought conditions hit Zimbabwe, and with hot, dry weather likely to continue, conservationists fear there could be more deaths to come.

The elephants died between August and December last year in the 14,651 sq km Hwange national park, which is home to endangered elephants, buffalo, lions, cheetahs, giraffes and other species. At least six other elephants have recently been discovered dead outside the park in suspected poaching incidents.

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A state-owned water supplier in South Korea has teamed up with a California-based company for a pilot project developing direct air capture (DAC) installations, which the companies claimed to be the world’s first-of-its-kind facility for water recovery and carbon removal using a seawater desalination plant.

Global food and drink conglomerate Nestle has planted 350,000 trees at an estate in southeastern Victoria that will earn Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), as part of a broader worldwide reforestation effort.

The Philippines has concluded a technical working group with the World Bank in preparations for the introduction of carbon pricing instruments, though the timeline for policy progress still remains unclear.

New system should help preserve art collection at Dorset country mansion by providing a steady, gentle heat

Over the years Kingston Lacy, which was built to resemble a Venetian palace that has materialised in the English countryside, has been kept warm and dry with open fires and coal and oil boilers.

Now a “pioneering” ground source heat pump has been installed to protect the spectacular Dorset country mansion and its collection of paintings by masters such as Velázquez, Titian and Rubens.

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Exclusive: Documents released after Freedom of Information Act requests show repeated requests for plans

Plans from the UK water industry to “urgently” tackle the sewage pollution crisis have been delayed by four months, with no publication date in sight, the Guardian can reveal.

Government ministers last year demanded water executives send them a “plan for urgent change” to tackle outflows which spill untreated human waste into rivers and seas.

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Amsterdam-headquartered STX is expanding its presence in the Asia Pacific from the Singapore headquarters it established in 2021, seeing a strong pipeline of growth with a focus on renewable energy.

Wind Prospect's proposed wind farm in Western Australia promises to be its largest – and is less likely to have to work around bird breeding seasons.

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Even a small rise in sea level can have big impacts on coastal properties, so we must do all we can to limit the changes while taking them into account in coastal land-use planning. Thomas Mortlock, Adjunct Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Barossa gas project is terrible news for the climate and Tiwi Islanders. It goes ahead against record warming and calls for more ambitious emissions targets.

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