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EU co-legislators reached a provisional deal on Thursday on a bill to enhance the transparency of the bloc's rapidly decarbonising energy market and met for a second time to talk about a related bill for shielding citizens from higher energy prices.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday granted nearly $4.3 million to the Virginia Department of Energy to assess the site feasibility and commercial viability of a CO2 storage hub project in a local county.

A Montreal-based carbon removals developer has announced a Series A funding round of C$75 million ($54.5 mln) to advance its goal of a billion tonne-scale project in Canada.

The EU will extend for 10 years authorisation for the use of glyphosate, the European Commission said on Thursday, exercising its default power after member states failed to agree.

The UN body responsible for guiding which projects may be credited under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement has unanimously agreed to its methodology recommendations after two years of intense discussion, just in time to forward its guidance document to country negotiators at COP28.

A Washington-based company reducing the carbon intensity of feed, fibers, fuel, and fertiliser by converting recycled CO2 has received $5 million in seed funding from four investors, it announced on Thursday.

A company working in precision agriculture helped avoid the loss of 1,216 species worldwide throughout 2022, US-headquartered asset manager Federated Hermes has suggested.

NGOs have said they have “serious concerns” with a text being considered for adoption by member states on the bloc's new legislation aiming to define how to certify carbon removals, they said in a letter published on Thursday.

Some 143 fossil fuel and chemical industry "lobbyists" have registered to attend the global plastic treaty negotiations in Kenya, according to a non-profit concerned that the delegates will exert an undue influence upon the proceedings and force lower ambition.

Ukraine’s deputy energy minister said on Thursday that the country’s electricity grid may need additional inputs from the EU this winter to prevent blackouts, adding that the embattled nation's power sector is shaping up in the hope of EU accession.

Nine women used hammers and chisels to shatter building’s windows in April 2021 as part of Extinction Rebellion protest

Nine climate protesters have been cleared by a jury of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to the windows at the headquarters of HSBC bank in London.

The women, who were all taking action as members of Extinction Rebellion, sang and chanted as they shattered the custom-made glass windows with hammers and chisels at about 7am on 22 April 2021.

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The European Commission will soon present a communication on how to improve energy grids in Europe that will also cover how important CCS technology has become, the executive's Green Deal boss Maros Sefcovic said on Thursday.

Two large corporate carbon credit buyers expressed a broadly positive outlook for the development of jurisdictional REDD+ in spite of "a difficult year" for the forestry sector, in a webinar on Thursday, urging patience from the market.

Companies are counting on an under-the-radar tweak to EU ETS rules to kickstart projects to store carbon permanently in buildings, with the incentive to shave carbon costs enough to get going without needing to rely on fledgling efforts to generate carbon credits from removals.

Superb singers, pollen showers and some Jambalaya on the Bayou. The winners of the sixth annual BirdLife Australia Bird Photography awards have been announced

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I used to believe I had no real say in what our government did. But eventually I realised that that simply wasn’t true

I’m 16 years old and today I will be striking from school because of the government’s complete failure to combat a very real, and very dangerous threat to my future. I live in western Sydney and have lived here all my life. I enjoy school, and take my education seriously. I take pride in my academic achievement. Despite this, I’m walking out of school to fight for my future.

When I was in primary school, my teacher taught us about climate change, and how it’s caused. He would explain that it would lead to things like rising sea levels, more extreme temperatures, andworsening floods and fires. I understood what he said, but at the time it was hard to actually imagine what it meant.

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Even with bigger subsidies, the technology looks attractive price-wise compared with gas

The good news is that the government has an offshore wind strategy again, something that was in doubt after the last auction flopped by producing no bids from developers. The maximum price the state is prepared to pay for a windfarm’s output for 15 years has been set at £73 a megawatt hour for the 2024 auction, a level that should be high enough to grab attention in boardrooms and spark some bidding action.

The bad news, of course, is that £73 is a mighty leap from £44, the price that generated the big thumbs-down, and these subsidies end up on our bills. Yes, we all know about higher interest rates and inflation in everything from steel to the cost of transporting turbines to the North Sea. But a 66% increase?

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An international conservation NGO on Thursday announced it is launching a Mangrove Conservation Fund for Malaysia as its first action after establishing a presence in the Southeast Asian nation.

Researcher says data suggests permit conditions breached on up to 70 days, but United Utilities disputes findings

Suspected illegal dumping of raw sewage into Windermere took place on up to 70 days in 2022, a year in which campaigners said the lake had its worst summer of harmful algal blooms, according to analysis of data released under environmental information rules.

Prof Peter Hammond, whose research first identified the scale of illegal raw sewage discharges from English water companies, has analysed detailed data on spills and treatment by United Utilities, which was released by the Environment Agency.

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Most Asia-Pacific nations are trailing global commitment levels in emissions targets, and they should use the next cycle of NDC updates in 2024-25 to recalibrate, a UN report said Thursday.