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A foundation, largely funded by companies charging an internal carbon price to cover emissions, this year aims to almost double the number of projects it supports as an alternative to offsetting for beyond value chain mitigation.

Thames Water is among a group of firms being closely monitored due to issues with their finances.

An Italian environmental consultancy told Carbon Pulse that its public-private model can enable private sector finance to flow into improving biodiversity outcomes while ensuring cohesion with targets agreed under the Global Biodiversity Framework.

Newspaper endorses CEO Meg O’Neill’s position the company’s gas is needed to keep the state’s lights on but doesn’t mention the climate crisis

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Who needs to pay for newspaper advertising? Not the fossil fuel company Woodside in its home state of Western Australia, based on recent evidence. It can place its message unchallenged in Perth’s local daily without the inconvenience of having to pay for it.

Last Friday the West Australian went big with an opinion piece by Meg O’Neill, Woodside’s Perth-based chief executive – not once, but four times.

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An analysis and consulting firm is to launch an interactive map showing the location of voluntary carbon forest projects around the world using data pulled from all major offset registries, as it hopes to provide greater visibility for verification bodies, regulators, and market participants.

A London-headquartered investor has secured the target figure of £300 million for its forestry and carbon credits fund at its final close, Carbon Pulse has learned.

German company points to ‘intense price competition’, which it sees as unsustainable

Mercedes-Benz has said the electric car market is “brutal” for carmakers as heavy competition forces them to cut prices.

Sales of electric cars are soaring in Europe and China, with the US further behind, but the rush of new launches is putting pressure on European manufacturers in particular, who are struggling to compete with cheap models coming from China.

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European carbon prices broke below two key support levels on Thursday morning, though trading remained within a fairly narrow range as participants eyed tests of further support levels, while energy markets were little changed.

Exclusive: North Sea Transition Authority under fire for using lawyers to argue against publication of environmental impact

The UK’s oil and gas regulator is coming under fire from environmental groups for using lawyers to try to prevent the publication of five key documents relating to the environmental impact of Shell’s activities in the North Sea.

At a hearing in December, a legal representative for the North Sea Transition Authority (NSTA) is expected to argue against the publication of documents that contain details about the risk of pollution as a result of decommissioning the Brent oilfield, which was operated by Shell for more than 40 years. It says it opposes publication “on a matter of process basis”.

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The cost of capital has risen making borrowing tough for developing countries, but a Harvard economist believes he has found a way to solve the issue by leveraging Article 6 in a novel way to build large-scale transmission infrastructure.

Japan’s environment ministry this week concluded the certification of 122 sites across the country as Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), its core policy to incentivise businesses to contribute towards the country meeting its 30 by 30 biodiversity protection targets.

Global carbon standard Verra laid out the next steps in its charm offensive at a conference on Thursday, as it works to reform itself in response to evolving expectations and standards from stakeholders.

The verification standards followed by carbon market participants in India lack integrity and the government can make better use of the existing standards approved internationally, an expert told a conference Thursday.

The intelligent birds, thought to be a nuisance by some, learn from consequences and can recognize resemblance between objects

A new study has found that the way pigeons problem-solve matches artificial intelligence.

Often overlooked as a nuisance, pigeons are actually highly intelligent animals that can remember faces, see the world in vivid colors, navigate complex routes, deliver news and even save lives.

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Digitalisation of the carbon credit verification process could and perhaps should spell the end of the current MRV process and VVBs, according to a senior World Bank official speaking Thursday at a conference.

The winning images of the British Ecological Society’s annual photography competition, taken by international ecologists and students, feature a lone tree dominating an empty landscape and a giant squirrel devouring a jackfruit

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The Australian government will invest A$69.2 million ($43.3 mln) to develop a renewable hydrogen hub in Queensland, it announced Thursday, as the latest weekly issuance of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) fell to just 40,000 units.

The Pacific island of Fiji on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a South Korean conglomerate on a project to plant and restore mangroves to reduce carbon emissions.

Anglers in Venezuela have been raking up oil spills and collecting plastic waste from Lake Maracaibo to try to save the lake that sustains their livelihoods.

President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the implementation of a "rescue, attention and decontamination" plan for the 13,000 sq km lake, one of South America’s largest and one of the oldest in the world. Years of inadequate waste management and neglect of oil industrial infrastructure have polluted the lake, which harbours two-thirds of the country’s oil reserves – and production is expected to increase.

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Images taken by public reveal insights into threatened minke whales, including finding the most attention-seeking whale

Snowy is the oldest known minke whale in Europe, while Knobble appears to adore attention – or, at least, the whale has been spotted more than 60 times since 2002, mostly close to the Isle of Mull.

Photographic records of minke whales submitted by members of the public are being published in a digital catalogue, providing insights about the threatened species.

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