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Investments in carbon capture and utilisation or storage risk squeezing margins for businesses that use the technology to extend the life of polluting assets when cheaper alternatives are available, according to a research report by Moody's.

An increasing availability of better-quality data in the carbon market is already helping companies get closer to neutrality, experts at IETA’s annual European Climate Summit in Florence said on Tuesday.

Clearer definitions for the scope, quantification, and baselines of carbon farming activities to be included under the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) were presented by the European Commission on Tuesday.

The challenge for a resource-rich, medium-sized economy such as Australia is to identify the right green industries to focus on, while minimising the risks to taxpayers

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It’s taken a while to get here, but Anthony Albanese is on the verge of promising what some economists and most clean energy advocates have been urging Australian governments to do for years. Or at least a version of it.

The prime minister’s promised “future made in Australia” act is clumsily named, and the announcement last week had few details, but the idea – that the government will need to use its weight to help develop green industries if the country is to make a rapid transition from fossil fuels to a clean economy – has been a long time coming.

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Hybrids outsold pure electrics in the past three quarters, according to new figures, while petrol and diesel sales fell 8%

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Australians are choosing hybrid over electric vehicles, but sales of both continue to climb while internal combustion engines record a decline.

Hybrids outsold EVs in three consecutive quarters with 95,129 sales – overtaking 69,593 EVs sold, according to the Australian Automobile Association’s quarterly EV Index released on Tuesday night.

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The prospect of public pricing in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), potentially spurred by looming disclosure requirements, is provoking a range of reactions from market participants hinging on appetite for regulation, favourability toward transparency, and financial stake, experts have told Carbon Pulse.

An analysis of recent transactions under five voluntary biodiversity credit frameworks has found that prices vary massively, ranging from $7 to $41,000 per unit for a 100-year conservation period, with average rates expected to surge in the coming years.

Buyers of biodiversity credits should purchase multiple units at once to overcome the issue of some single initiatives not offering actual nature uplift, a researcher has said.

The EU and Greece will invest a combined €4.3 billion in protecting the ocean and marine biodiversity, and promoting sustainability, they announced at the 9th Our Ocean Conference in Athens.

European carbon allowance prices erased Monday's losses and resumed their upward march amid a continuation of short covering, as natural gas and power prices jumped sharply on Middle East tensions and interruptions in gas supply in both the US Gulf and North Sea.

An industry-led carbon accounting programme for financial institutions has teamed up with two of Brazil’s largest banks to promote measurement and disclosure of emissions from the Brazilian financial sector, according to an announcement Tuesday.

Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists

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Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned.

As technology develops, sound has become an increasingly important way of measuring the health and biodiversity of ecosystems: our forests, soils and oceans all produce their own acoustic signatures. Scientists who use ecoacoustics to measure habitats and species say that quiet is falling across thousands of habitats, as the planet witnesses extraordinary losses in the density and variety of species. Disappearing or losing volume along with them are many familiar sounds: the morning calls of birds, rustle of mammals through undergrowth and summer hum of insects.

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Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting imports

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The UK faces food shortages and price rises as extreme weather linked to climate breakdown causes low yields on farms locally and abroad.

Record rainfall has meant farmers in many parts of the UK have been unable to plant crops such as potatoes, wheat and vegetables during the key spring season. Crops that have been planted are of poor quality, with some rotting in the ground.

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Growth in China’s thermal power generation slowed in March with a sustained high level of coal output, while the pace in wind and hydropower generation accelerated, government data showed Tuesday.

Inconsistent laws and penalties for water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin make compliance and enforcement especially challenging. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Adam James Loch, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide David Adamson, Associate professor, Royal Agricultural University Mark Giancaspro, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide Michael Croft, Legal Researcher, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Australian government will introduce legislation to establish national environmental protection and information bodies, but has split reforms that would strengthen laws underpinning them into a separate tranche.

The world’s main emissions trading association published new guidelines on Tuesday about how corporate buyers should use carbon credits as part of their decarbonisation pathways.

Building developers in England will be able to more easily address the biodiversity impacts of their projects and comply with the biodiversity net gain (BNG) mandate thanks to the launch today of a new BNG software, which helps companies understand the biodiversity impact of different building designs.

Tanya Plibersek says two new agencies will be established but a commitment to rewrite national environment laws has been pushed back

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The Albanese government has further delayed a commitment to rewrite Australia’s failing national environment laws.

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said the government would introduce legislation in coming weeks to create two previously announced bodies – an environment protection agency and a second organisation called Environment Information Australia, which will provide public data on ecosystems, plants and animals.

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Germany’s international development agency GIZ and the Philippines Climate Change Commission on Tuesday announced the soft launch of a programme aimed at protecting, conserving, and rehabilitating biodiversity and natural carbon sinks in the Southeast Asian nation.