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A Paris-headquartered carbon removals startup has sold credits worth more than $7 million to its corporate clients from novel technologies in its latest procurement round.

The NITI Aayog, India’s planning commission, has launched an initiative to restore 26 million hectares of the country’s wastelands by 2030 and create an additional carbon sink of 2.5-3 billion tonnes of CO2e.

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) hopeful Jet Zero signed an agreement Tuesday with a fuel tech firm to progress a SAF project in Queensland, Australia and cut local jet emissions by 70%.

South Korea could cut emissions from shipping, which it depends on, by up to 20 million tonnes of CO2 per year at a single port via establishing wider scale green corridors, according to a report released Tuesday.

An Indonesian carbon project developer has signed an agreement with a Dubai-based firm to restore around 6,500 hectares of degraded mangrove forest in Aceh province.

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced seven new flagship restoration projects ahead of the 6th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), which will be held from Feb. 26 to Mar. 1 in Nairobi, Kenya.

The NZU price has been trading sideways for the last six weeks, as emitters stocked up on units see no need to wade in, while the market awaits answers from the government on lingering policy issues, according to market participants. 

Updated: Grid drama in Victoria in midst of heatwave as all four units at Loy Yang trip, transmission lines fail and other generators off line.

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Rio Tinto, BHP and BlueScope collaboration on making iron ore suitable for processes that don’t use coal, it's becoming even clearer carbon capture and storage will not play a meaningful role in steel decarbonisation.

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Solar for Apartments aims to help around 5,000 apartment owners and renters to install rooftop solar by addressing two key barriers to uptake: cost and complexity.

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Snowy Hydro CEO says boring machine Florence needs to tunnel about 15 metres a day to keep Snowy 2.0 on track and says a fourth boring machine could be on the cards if the going gets tough again.

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Survey respondents overwhelmingly prioritised saving a human life – even if that person had been repeatedly told to evacuate and even if, as a consequence, a snail or shrub species became extinct. John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University Stephen Garnett, Professor of Conservation and Sustainable Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Sea-bird counts after avian flu show serious declines in three species, the charity RSPB says.

Sea bird counts after avian flu show serious declines in three species, the charity RSPB says.

A Tokyo-based sustainable investment platform has teamed up with a technology and advisory firm to launch what they say will be Japan’s first investment fund for nature-based carbon credits, with a target size of 10 billion yen ($67 million).

A UK pesticide producer did not look at key health records in its Parkinson's study, legal papers show.

An Australian environmental group has received federal government funding to train AI models how to accurately recognise and identify up to 120 native species.

World must spend at least $A18 trillion on renewables and the grid to meet climate targets, and most can come from scrapping fossil fuel plans.

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Report by RSPB and British Trust for Ornithology finds H5N1 has killed three-quarters of great skua and 25% of northern gannets

The UK has lost more than three-quarters of its great skuas on surveyed sites since bird flu struck, according to the first report quantifying the impact of H5N1 on seabird populations.

The deaths have happened over two years, since the outbreak of H5N1 in 2021. The UK is internationally important for seabirds, home to most of the world’s 16,000 pairs of nesting great skuas.

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Government plans to deliver SMRs ‘lack clarity’ say environmental committee, and will likely fail to meet clean-energy goal of 2035

MPs have warned that a planned fleet of small nuclear reactors are unlikely to contribute to hitting a key target in decarbonising Britain’s electricity generation, as the government opened talks to buy a site in Wales for a new power station.

The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) said that ministers’ approach to developing factory-built nuclear power plants “lacks clarity” and their role in hitting a goal of moving the grid to clean energy by 2035 was unclear.

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