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Satellites reveal a 50-year record of climate change by tracing the lumpiness in ice surfaces.

Satellites reveal a 50-year record of climate change by tracing the lumpiness in ice surfaces.

Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.

Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.

Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.

Two oil and gas majors and a gas shipping company have joined an initiative aimed at improving technologies to measure and mitigate methane emissions from the maritime sector, in an effort to reduce pollution from the use of  LNG as a fuel. 

Companies should shift towards carbon removals with durable storage in their credit-buying strategies as opposed to credits for emissions avoidance or reductions, say academics in updated offsetting guidance.

Most of the companies driving tropical deforestation are failing to address their impacts, with one-third lacking commitments and almost two-thirds showing little evidence of implementing them, a study has found.

French renewables and battery developer says it has raised more than $1.1bn in new debt finance for its Australian assets, including the four-hour battery being built in Western Australia.

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BC’s ministry of finance anticipates reduced revenues from the provincial carbon tax but will allocate more funding to quarterly rebates for eligible residents, according to government documents published Thursday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices held near their record highs on thin volume over the past week, as participants anticipated more movement ahead of the Q1 auction next month.

French energy giant EDF splans to build a pumped hydro project in the New England region of NSW after buying the asset from Walcha Energy.

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Italian oil giant’s plans to produce thousands of tonnes of biofuel crops in Africa is falling short, an NGO’s study reveals.

California electricity sector CO2 emissions continued to dip to record lows in January, even as natural gas maintained its historically high share of the state's energy supply, data published Friday showed.

Australia’s main grid has 40,000 km of transmission lines. Building another 10,000 km quickly is proving hard. Magnus Söderberg, Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University Phillip Wild, Senior Research Fellow, CAEEPR, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A trade deal between Brussels and four members of the South American Mercosur economic group would compromise UN agreements and EU law, according to a legal analysis issued Monday.

Egypt has defined the legal status of voluntary carbon credits to be traded in the North African country ahead of moves to harmonise a standard set of principles internationally.

Tuesday's vote by the full European Parliament's house on a bill to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and sea areas by 2030 is expected to be a 'rubber-stamping' exercise, although farmers' discontent with EU green policies, red tape, and lack of funding has been tearing Brussels apart.

US-based agtech firm Indigo Ag has completed its third carbon crop, more than doubling its post-buffer pool offset supply, it said Monday, while also announcing a new partnership that is expected to expand its network of credit buyers.

A huge number of African REDD voluntary carbon credits were retired by an oil and gas major last week, but spot activity was thin and trading generally lacklustre as prices kept steady.