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New Zealand has indicated it wants to continue scraping the seafloor with nets in vulnerable marine areas at an intergovernmental meeting, WWF has claimed.

Investors, backed by a Danish pension fund, have closed funding of a Nordic carbon storage hub that is developing a CO2 transportation and storage facility, they announced in a release.

The fossil fuel industry is forecast to spend more than $1 trillion globally over the next decade on producing gas for European markets, including investing in new extraction, despite warnings from climate scientists and policy advisers, according to a report published on Monday.

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Existing production destroys more value than it creates due to medical and environmental costs, researchers say

A shift towards a more sustainable global food system could create up to $10tn (£7.9tn) of benefits a year, improve human health and ease the climate crisis, according to the most comprehensive economic study of its type.

It found that existing food systems destroyed more value than they created due to hidden environmental and medical costs, in effect, borrowing from the future to take profits today.

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Strong waves and sediment-laden freshwater pushed out from river catchments may have damaged parts of reef system, experts say

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Back-to-back cyclones crossing the Great Barrier Reef have experts concerned vast flood plumes and heavy waves may have damaged parts of the world’s biggest coral reef system.

Reef scientists and conservationists went into the summer worried that an El Niño weather pattern would elevate the risk of mass coral bleaching.

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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.

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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.