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A UK-based project developer is workshopping a ‘living rivers index’, scoring the biodiversity value of stretches of waterways to help lay the way for freshwater credits.

Trading in China’s carbon market has remained muted after the recent holiday with relatively low liquidity amid sluggish demand, even as the spot allowance price reached the highest level since the beginning of the year.

Hastening the implementation of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) through updating national strategies, mobilising nature finance, and enhancing cooperation between biodiversity-related conventions will be among the core topics of discussion at the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) next week, as the world's top decision-making body on the environment gathers for the first time since the landmark agreement was sealed in 2022.

Researchers hope the findings will inform policymakers planning cities for a warming world

Few things are as soothing on a hot summer’s day as a walk through a beautiful botanical garden, but they are not just oases of calm. As climate breakdown fuels soaring temperatures, they could prove crucial in moderating the heat in the streets around them.

A comprehensive review of research into the heat-mitigating effects of green spaces during heatwaves has found that botanical gardens are the most effective. It is a finding the team at the Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCCAR) hope will inform policymakers planning cities for a warming world.

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Introducing an auctioning mechanism can lower the economic costs of China’s emissions trading scheme by at least 30% and reduce distortions associated with pre-existing taxes, a report has found.

The province of Wielkopolska in Poland is officially moving out of its historical fossil fuel dependency, after signing up on Friday to the Powering Past Coal Alliance (PPCA) during a conference focused on “Life After Coal”.

A New York-based bank has partnered with a Singaporean climate-tech company to provide digital decarbonisation solutions through which organisations can offset their emissions by purchasing credits from the bank’s portfolio.

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Australia’s biggest project developer has teamed up with a carbon and energy advisory firm via a strategic investment to expand both companies’ services with a focus on the agricultural sector.

One of South Korea’s biggest companies has won its first approval for a methodology designed to generate carbon credits under a recently launched domestic offset standard.

The environment minister Susana Muhamad says nature is a ‘pillar’ of fighting the climate crisis

The next round of global biodiversity negotiations will put nature at the heart of the international environment agenda, Colombia’s environment minister has said, as the country prepares for the Cop16 summit.

Susana Muhamad, Colombia’s environment minister, who is expected to be the Cop16 president, said the South American country would use the summit to ensure nature was a key part of the global environmental agenda in the year building up to the climate Cop30 in the Brazilian Amazon in 2025, where countries will present new plans on how they will meet the Paris agreement.

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A remarkably complete fossil of a bizarre Triassic reptile in unprecedented detail has been found.

A second wind farm is switched off due to bush fires as anti-renewable groups accuse the turbines of fanning the flames.

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New electricity demand records set as heat wave sweeps across eastern seaboard.

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Market rule maker proposes tightening ring-fencing rules to improve the efficiency of the grid connection process as Australia scrambles to meet its renewables targets.

The post AEMC seeks to loosen monopoly grip on grid connection for solar, wind and batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Intuitive Machines completes the first ever lunar touchdown by a privately built spacecraft.

The chemical and surface reflectivity feedbacks associated with forestation efforts could counteract up to a third of those trees’ CO2 removal benefits, according to new research.

Voluntary carbon stakeholders have pressed certifier Verra to work faster on adopting its various new initiatives and make sure they are aligned with parallel work being done to improve the integrity of the market.

Rio Tinto is dialling down its renewable targets in the Pilbara because it says electric haul trucks won't be ready in time. Fortescue says they are wrong.

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The biggest wind farm in New South Wales and one of the biggest on the NEM has the green light from the federal government to go ahead.

The post Massive NSW wind and battery project gets federal approval to replace coal, drought-proof farms appeared first on RenewEconomy.