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Quarter of new flood defence projects will also not go ahead, NAO finds, as Environment Agency blames cuts on inflation

The number of properties that will be better protected from flooding by 2027 has been cut by 40%, and 500 of 2,000 new flood defence projects have been abandoned, according to the National Audit Office (NAO).

The number of homes forecast to be under enhanced flood protection by 2027 has been slashed from 336,000 to 200,000. This means 136,000 more homes will be at risk of flooding since plans were drawn up in 2020, figures from an NAO report show.

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A climate tech startup backed by computing legend Bill Gates claims it can permanently remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere for more than a millennium at a cost under $100 per tonne.

Brookfield's bid for Origin is good for Australia. But Australia's biggest super fund is signalling that fundamental value is less important than just stopping the bid.

The post The super fund giant and advisory firm blocking Australia’s renewable energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The US is experiencing a rapid escalation in climate change impacts, with the threat of worsening consequences that will affect human health, key infrastructure, and the economy while sparing no region, according to a comprehensive report published Tuesday.

Every living thing leaves traces in its environment. By sampling water or even air for this environmental DNA, we can know which species live where. Maarten De Brauwer, Research fellow, CSIRO Oliver Berry, Leader, Environomics Future Science Platform, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

With a slidedeck for the California regulator's cap-and-trade programme public workshop set to release half an hour after the upcoming fourth quarter carbon allowance sale, WCI market participants deliberated on whether the ARB's release would affect bids at Wednesday's auction.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to temporarily exempt home heating oil from carbon pricing has only amplified existing dissent with the Liberal government’s approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and introduces uncertainty to the future of Canadian climate policy, experts say.

A suite of legislation passed in California mandating disclosure of Scope 1-3 emissions and climate-related financial risk for large companies, as well as standardised requirements for voluntary carbon market participants, sets the stage for high-quality climate action from the private sector, a panel of experts discussed Tuesday.

The WCI-linked cap-and-trade and Washington cap-and-invest 2024 auction floor prices were set unofficially as October inflation held unchanged month-over-month for the first time all year, according to federal data published Tuesday.

The upcoming calls for the EU ETS-financed Innovation Fund will represent a major step-up in scale under new rules that also promise a greater spread of awards for pioneering carbon-cutting projects across the 27-nation bloc.

Understanding the success of the ABC’s War on Waste is a lesson in behavioural psychology. Research reveals five ways to guide other entertainment-education interventions to similar success. Danie Nilsson, Behavioural Scientist, CSIRO Rachael Vorwerk, Science Communicator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Optical Microcombs for Breakthrough Science (COMBS), RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A charter airline service provider announced on Tuesday a partnership with Canadian-headquartered carbon project developer to offset GHG output from aviation fuel burn and customer air travels.

UK-based green industries, from electric car chargers to solar panels, are looking to the finance minister's autumn statement next week for a response to transition strategies elsewhere, particularly the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and say that more potential investment will be lost without a strong government commitment.

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Certifier Gold Standard on Tuesday said it had opened an investigation into the Bachu Biomass Power Generation Project in China in the wake of media reports that suggested the initiative may be at risk of being implicated in potential forced labour. 

Accredited REDD+ developers in an Amazonian Brazilian state have more than doubled after the jurisdiction's Secretariat for the Environment (SEMA) confirmed that an additional 14 entities were awarded the title of executing agents.

A Google DeepMind tool predicted where one would hit three days ahead of existing methods.

The worst of this year's acrimony among EU lawmakers over green issues may now have passed after a deal was found on the bloc’s nature bill, MEPs suggested at an event in Brussels on Tuesday as a leading global climate policy expert eyed the importance of next year’s elections for determining the bloc's level of climate ambition.

The proposed EU target to scale up annual operational CO2 injection capacity to 50 million tonnes by 2030 is "aggressive" but "possible with better policy and regulatory support", an event heard this week.

Here are some of the standout images from the 2023 Nature Conservancy photo contest. Entries from more than 80,000 photographers in 191 countries and territories were judged across 12 categories

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