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EU climate chief Frans Timmermans will leave the European Commission in mid-August to pursue a leadership bid of a new Greens-Socialist democrats party alliance in the Netherlands, Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant reported on Thursday morning.

A start-up carbon credit rating agency has secured $3.75 million in seed funding after a year of operating amid growing investor appetite in this fast growing sector of the voluntary market.

While MRV digitalisation is considered to help enhance visibility into the supply chain of carbon credits, the community aspect should not be ignored given the complexity of existing methods and natural ecosystems, a conference heard Thursday.

Former head of the UN climate science body told the BBC's Today programme he was very pessimistic.

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Swedish utility Vattenfall posted a year-on-year drop in EU ETS-covered fossil generation in its H1 2023 results published Thursday, and halted plans to build a new offshore wind farm in British waters.

Unilever’s skincare brand Dove has teamed up with the Singapore-based Rimba Collective to protect rainforests across Southeast Asia over the next five years.

A Japanese climate startup will work with a social business development company to create carbon credits through the promotion of a rice farming practice in Bangladesh, eyeing the huge potential of the South Asian country's agricultural sector, it announced Thursday.

An Australian carbon project aggregator and developer has announced a pilot e-cookstove carbon project to help improve health and environmental issues in Laos, expecting to generate 6 million carbon credits over the next decade.

The first impact fund to gain approval under Gold Standard's financier-focused programme marks a key threshold in efforts to assure effective impact investing for sustainable development, the certifier said on Thursday.

MPs and newspapers alike are attacking the public body charged with conserving the English countryside for doing just that

Several grisly bloodsports, legal or otherwise, are enjoyed in the English countryside. But none is as popular as shooting the messenger. Rather than attend to our environmental crisis, politicians, lobbyists and the media prefer to hunt the people seeking to address the problem. No quarry is pursued as keenly as the government’s conservation agency Natural England.

This weekend, a full-spectrum attack was launched in the billionaire press. The Sunday Telegraph raged against the agency’s call for “nutrient neutrality”. This means that new housing or business developments should not increase the amount of shit in our rivers. The paper also attacked Natural England’s advice that when new homes are built there should be no net increase in air pollution. It quoted a mysterious “insider” accusing the agency of “green activism”. What’s the betting that this “insider” is a property developer? A similar attack was launched in the Times on Monday.

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The New Zealand government has partnered with the country’s largest dairy cooperative, committing NZ$90 million ($56 mln) in co-funding to Fonterra to cut coal use at six of its dairy factories, which is expected cut manufacturing emissions in half by 2030.

Tatton Park flower show features garden of flowering plants whose heady scents at night attract crucial but ‘invisible’ pollinators

Gardens should be as attractive to pollinators at night as they are in the day, horticulturalists have said, as they present a moth-friendly version at a flower show in Cheshire.

The RHS nocturnal pollinators experience garden at Tatton Park flower show, which began on Wednesday, showcases flowering plants that produce heady scents at night to attract moths, which a 2020 study found were crucial but “invisible” pollinators.

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Mainstream media reckons electricity prices went up last quarter because the cost of generation rose. Bollocks. The energy oligopoly simply exercised its market power.

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UNSW researchers have developed a new way of recovering important metals from end-of-life solar panels – including silver.

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Renewable electricity generation could outpace coal as world’s largest source of power in 2024, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency.

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Claiming ‘woke hysteria’ is driving policy, lobby group Advance Australia makes a series of claims by the usual suspects that are easily debunked

Have you been “infected by this woke climate hysteria”? Would you like some reheated climate tropes to go with your anti-renewables populist rhetoric?

If your answer is yes, then the conservative activist group Advance Australia has a campaign for you.

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US climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington and Beijing will stick to their global commitment and hold climate meetings on a regular basis, after three days of talks to revive the dialogue between the world's two largest carbon emitters.

"We need to try and speed up that process as much as possible." NSW state energy minister responds to industry concerns about planning bottlenecks for new wind and solar projects.

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Australia's longest and shortest-serving energy ministers have moved to soothe investor fears about governments taking control of clean power assets.

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