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The cost of Britain’s commercial forestry has fallen for the first time in a decade, though the value of listed land with natural capital potential has soared, according to a new report.

BlackRock's Akaysha to build Australia's biggest four hour battery, and AGL to install a huge battery at Liddell after winning tender to fill gap from Eraring closure.

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The EU and Switzerland have published the ETS allowance transfer window schedule for 2024, providing near-daily opportunities for units to flow between the linked carbon markets.

Allowance holdings of power sector emitters under the RGGI carbon market increased at the end of the third quarter even as their estimated short position widened, while traded volumes cratered through Q3, according to a report published Tuesday.

Northvolt hails breakthrough in sodium ion batteries, providing big advances for battery storage and ultimately for electric vehicles.

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Community-driven programmes to install low- and zero-emission technologies, reduce GHG output, and improve climate resiliency are eligible for $2 billion in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the US EPA announced Tuesday.

Whether the Netherlands adopts a more ambitious climate agenda than that of the outgoing government will hinge on how much the electorate engages in tactical voting to keep the extreme right-wing out of government, as polls reveal a surge in popularity for the populist, anti-climate policy Party For Freedom (PVV) ahead of Wednesday's vote.

EU lawmakers facing a difficult time agreeing on a text to reduce the use of pesticides, with a debate in the European Parliament on Tuesday replicating some of the controversies seen earlier in the year for the bloc's nature restoration bill. 

California electricity sector CO2 emissions continued to decrease from the previous year's levels in October, but at a more moderate pace than in recent months, as shares of natural gas CO2 output skyrocketed and renewables fell back, data published Monday showed.

Between Black Friday and Christmas we will see adverts encouraging people to desire things that don’t reveal what they could cost the planet

Late in November 1998, a British newspaper alerted its readers to a strange quirk of American culture. At 5am on the day after Thanksgiving, queues were forming at US shopping malls, and the roads were busy with more would-be shoppers. It was called “Black Friday”, explained the reporter, the day when retailers could expect to see their bottom lines magically go from red to black. And what was selling this year? Fluffy robots called Furby dolls. By 6.05am, the main toyshop inside one mall in Boston had sold out of its entire stock of Furby dolls. The Guardian’s librarians believe that this is the first mention of Black Friday in any British national newspaper. A quarter of a century later, your Furby may be a relic but Black Friday has gone global.

Marketing changes our norms, and the eight weeks of Christmas broadcasts are the industry’s yearly jamboree. It’s forecast that this month and next, a record £9.5bn will be blown on advertising, more than the UK government spends on prisons in a year. This is the philosophy of “spending like there’s no tomorrow” – literally, given the climate crisis. Once Christmas has passed, the adverts will offer up many alternative ways to fry the planet.

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Two carbon removal project developers have joined forces to explore the development of large-scale direct air capture (DAC) facilities in Canada.

Tree-planting initiatives to increase CO2 sequestration, as part of forest management strategies supported by recent US legislation, may not offset the carbon emitted from related efforts to reduce the risk of wildfires, a new study warns.

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The EU can help Africa achieve its climate goals by raising its demand for carbon credits, Kenya's president William Ruto told the European Parliament on Tuesday.

UK-based CreditNature has closed its third funding round at £470,000, increasing its valuation to almost £5 million, the company has said.

Pakistan’s federal government is working on a comprehensive policy framework to establish its domestic carbon market, the prime minister’s office said on Monday as reported by local media.

Eight of the largest fossil burning power companies in the EU each posted a year-on-year drop in ETS-covered output in excess of 14% over the first nine months of the year, leading analysts to consider the impact on EUAs of the increasing uncertainty of estimating utility emissions in light of clean energy expansion, and the bearish potential of a continued decline in forward hedging from the sector.

Police in southern city of Tilburg tell residents to stay indoors after owner reported missing snake

An “extremely venomous” 2-metre green mamba snake is on the loose in the Netherlands, police have said, warning residents to stay indoors and under no circumstances attempt to ensnare the serpent.

Police in the southern city of Tilburg said they were alerted by the mamba’s owner on Monday evening that “he was missing a snake”.

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An experiment with a common jellyfish has revealed the potential harm of seabed mining on creatures in the deep.

The UK and South Korea are set to sign a clean energy partnership on Wednesday to boost cooperation on low carbon technologies, renewables including offshore wind, and tackling climate change.