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A carbon ratings and data provider has teamed up with an Australian carbon credit provider to offer its assessment on the company’s listed voluntary carbon products, the two companies announced Monday.

India has launched a framework to introduce a voluntary carbon market in the agriculture sector so that particularly small- and mid-sized farming businesses can benefit from the sale of carbon credits, the country’s agriculture minister said on Monday.

The red sludge that once troubled the Danube could be key to greening one of the most necessary but emissions-heavy industries in the world, according to a new paper.

European carbon prices were modestly weaker on Monday morning as demand from utilities remained sluggish amid negative generation margins and technical analysts saw potential for prices to test lower levels, while energy markets were firmer as renewables output was forecast to be lower.

Singapore is looking to work with Laos to help it export carbon credits to the international market, while also eyeing the opportunity to set up a bilateral partnership under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

A London-headquartered insurance firm has launched a novel product covering the leakage of CO2 from commercial-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities, also derisking related carbon credit and compliance permit purchases. 

Taiwan's top marine regulator has finished a draft methodology on blue carbon, which will serve as the basis for including the island's ocean-based carbon sinks in the national greenhouse gas inventory and quantifying emission reductions as carbon credits.

A carbon credits insurance startup, set up by three former Allianz executives, has closed a seed funding round at over $12 mln, it said Monday.

The purpose of the newly created Commercial & Carbon Trading Analyst role is to support Corporate Carbon’s expanding trading operations by assisting with the execution and settlement of trades under the direction of the Head of Carbon Trading.

A year after Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, declared a humanitarian crisis among the Yanomami and vowed zero tolerance for illegal mining, environmental enforcers have said the progress since the ousting from the reservation of 80% of the wildcat miners is in jeopardy. As the military has rolled back its support for the crackdown, the miners have made fresh incursions into Yanomami land, they say

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The lander has begun sending photos, including that of a nearby rock nicknamed "toy poodle".

National Trust says it hopes to establish 50 hectares across three sites close to surviving pockets of rainforest

More than 100,000 trees are being planted in north Devon as part of efforts to boost temperate or Celtic rainforests, some of the UK’s most magical but endangered environments.

The trees are being planted close to surviving pockets of rainforest at two spots close to the coast and one inland.

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China, India, and Southeast Asia will see the strongest growth in power demand this decade and the next, a consultancy forecast Monday.

The health of our soils is poor – and getting worse. Here’s why that matters and what we can do about it Ryan Borrett, Science Communications Coordinator, Murdoch University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The former Labor minister will resign from the Net Zero Economy Agency to take up the new post.

The post Greg Combet to quit Net Zero job to succeed Peter Costello as chair of the Future Fund appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Two big battery approvals show it is possible to get through some planning processes quickly, provided the work has been done beforehand.

The post Akaysha’s 2hr Tasmania battery flies through approvals in months appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The European Environmental Agency and Human Rights Watch have released new research showing the devastating cost of industrial pollution on human health and the environment.

The post Industrial polluters cost Europe €4.3 trillion in health and environmental damage, coal the main culprit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian carbon project developer is working on a cookstoves project in Papua New Guinea it believes will be one of the first projects eligible to supply carbon credits to Singaporean companies under the country’s whitelist.

Origin unveils plans to spend $400 million on a 650MWh battery in Victoria.

The post Origin to build 650 MWh battery next to gas plant in Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Over 200 million tonnes of sediment are transported by rivers to the sea each year, the most widespread water contaminant in the country. Its devastating impact on marine life has to be reversed. Abigail M Smith, Professor of Marine Science, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.