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Brookfield gets a boost as it tries to fend off attempts by fossil fuel investor Australian Super to derail its $20 billion offer and transition play for Origin Energy.

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Bluefloat rescinds environmental application for its Illawarra offshore wind project after Bowen says he was blindsided by the news, and as the campaign against the technology gets really weird.

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GHG output under the California cap-and-trade programme declined in 2022, falling year-on-year in every sub-sector, according to data published Monday, with annual emissions slipping below trader expectations.

An analysis of over 1,000 publicly listed companies worldwide shows that only one in 20 discloses quantified plans on how they will meet their greenhouse gas targets, a leading British university’s research centre found.

A London-based environmental products trader has left commodities trading house Mercuria to join rival Hartree Partners, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Where is that wind and solar farm that we keep on hearing about? Where is that big battery? And that coal generator about to shut down.

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DP Energy says it has the OK to take the next important steps in gaining approval for a 700MW wind farm and battery project proposed in the south west of New South Wales.

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A non-binding motion brought forward by federal Conservative Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre calling on the Liberal government to exempt its carbon pricing relief for all forms of home heating failed Monday in Parliament.

A US district judge dismissed a natural gas-fired power producer’s legal challenge to Washington state’s cap-and-trade programme, effectively closing the case following nearly a year of judicial proceedings, court documents showed Friday.

Your great grandfather and grandmother knew that age-old farming practices that had been handed down through generations, such as planting cover crops and using diverse crop rotations, resulted in healthy soils, resilient crops, and a sustainable farm business. What they didn’t know, or certainly weren’t as concerned about 100+ years ago, was how these sustainable practices are also critical in sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and making farms more resilient to the impacts of climate changes and extreme weather.

RGGI allowances (RGAs) broke a record settlement price for the benchmark contract over the previous week before receding slightly, as the Cost Containment Reserve (CCR) trigger continued to restrict prices and Pennsylvania's absence from the programme was confirmed.

A national dairy farmer cooperative received $22.9 mln for a project to cut down on methane emissions by implementing advanced feed additives in 50 operations, incorporating carbon credits sales into the product value chain, and demonstrating climate neutrality on dairy farms.

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Interbreeding may have boosted wildcat immunity to domestic cat diseases, but now threatens their survival as a distinct species

Humans weren’t the only creatures to fall under the sway of free love in the 1960s. After 2,000 years of keeping one another at paw’s length, wildcats and their domestic cousins began to interbreed about 60 years ago, a new study suggests.

Doing so may have helped to protect their offspring against diseases harboured by domestic cats, but this interbreeding is now threatening the survival of wildcats as a distinct species.

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Nature-based standardised carbon credit prices suffered another hammer blow last week after certifier Verra suspended issuance and launched an investigation into another REDD project, although the news came too late to gauge the impact on the wider avoided deforestation sector.

The EU agriculture sector should be covered in an EU ETS-inspired market that rewards least polluting farmers, Denmark's climate and energy minister Lars Aagaard said in an interview.

European domestic and inter-regional airlines are under threat from punitive emissions regulations and changing customer perceptions around short-haul flights, and risk becoming economically unviable depending on the speed at which net zero technologies become available, an airline executive told a conference on Monday.

In showing their disdain for the climate crisis, homelessness and refugees, the Conservatives are being deliberately provocative, and they expect us to lap it up

Imagine someone had said to King Charles: “Yes, you are going to end up top dog, but you won’t give your first address to parliament as king until a week before your 75th birthday. And, in it, you’ll have to walk the country through new annual oil and gas licences that represent a disregard for the future of the planet that you’ve spent your adult life worrying about.” Well, the poor guy would have been pretty dispirited. In fact, these energy plans look like a deliberate provocation – so much so that you have to wonder whether Rishi Sunak and the king have beef we don’t know about.

The oil and gas licences themselves are nonsense. Sunak knows that. None of the major industry players are rewriting their business strategies on the understanding that the Tories will be in power even this time next year, let alone on a rolling annual basis beyond that. The fields under offer are unlikely to produce enough oil and gas to meet our need for what Sunak calls “energy security”; Shell and BP have already sold some of their North Sea assets. In other words, this policy has no concrete practical application. It is pure vice-signalling.

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

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The Turkish minister of energy and natural resources has said the country's ETS will be put into operation next year, according to domestic media reports, and will be run by the electricity and natural gas market operator.