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The new UK government's plans to spur clean energy and infrastructure investment, including with the creation of a public company, were widely welcomed after they were confirmed in the King's Speech on Wednesday - although many cautioned that more is needed to tackle climate change.

The Clean Cooking & Climate Consortium (4C), led by the Clean Cooking Alliance (CCA), is seeking technical help for its new methodology for crediting emissions reductions from clean cooking projects as part of a UN-backed initiative.

One of Australia’s most ambitious hydrogen developers has all but abandoned its plans for the green fuel, it said Wednesday, which the firm had once suggested could rival the scale of Saudi Aramco’s oil output.

African banks could face a 21% increase in credit losses by 2050 unless companies in highly-exposed sectors, including agriculture and mining, urgently address their risks and dependencies on nature and shift to more sustainable practices, a report has said.

Andrew Forrest dials down his ambitious green hydrogen targets for 2030 - but still intends to reach "real zero" for his iron ore operations by that date.

The post Andrew Forrest concedes he won’t meet green hydrogen targets, but still focused on “real zero” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

WWF has called on the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) to establish a duty for countries to stop harming biodiversity as part of their obligations to address the climate crisis.

European carbon prices were modestly weaker at midday on Wednesday as a downward trend established from the opening was briefly interrupted by bullish gas news that was later proved to be incorrect, while weekly positions data from the futures exchanges showed a modest increase in speculators' bearish bets.

Regulators approve Meatly pet product, cultivated chicken made from growing cells

Lab-grown pet food is to hit UK shelves as Britain becomes the first country in Europe to approve cultivated meat.

The Animal and Plant Health Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs have approved the product from the company Meatly.

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A US off-grid solar company has secured financial backing to expand product sales worth up to $176 million in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

A Brazilian state government has announced the upcoming implementation of a legal regulation to offset corporate impacts on nature, making it the first state in the country to establish a biodiversity crediting scheme.

A global water company is working with a carbon removal startup to marry the worlds of carbon removal and water purification, delivering attractive cost savings and carbon removal credits in the process.

Xpansiv’s CBL spot exchange will launch its first batch of standardised registry-specific contracts aligned with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (ICVCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCP) on July 23, it announced Wednesday.

Footage shows severe flooding across Toronto after the Canadian city was hit by three big storms in recent days. The Canadian rapper Drake shared a video on Instagram appearing to show parts of his home submerged in flood water. Authorities say the storm left 167,000 people without power and several flights were delayed or cancelled. At least 14 people were rescued

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The New South Wales government has announced major reforms to its biodiversity conservation laws in response to the recent Henry review, including reforming the state’s nature offsets scheme.

A carbon utilisation company capturing and transforming CO2 into chemicals has raised $43 million in a Series A round co-led by Google Ventures and HV Capital.

Scientists from Japan's Chiba University have developed a sodium carbonate-nanocarbon hybrid material for capturing CO2 from industrial emissions, which they claim to be a cost- and energy-effective option for thermal power plants and factories.

The New Zealand opposition has come out swinging against the government’s draft second Emissions Reduction Plan, while experts say the plan places too much emphasis on reducing ‘net’ rather than gross greenhouse gas emissions.

The "advanced development" project proposes to combine 500MW of solar with a 500MW/1000MWh battery in the New South Wales Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone.

The post Enel Green Power snaps up 1GW solar and battery project proposed for NSW REZ appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Safety had not been valued by the state-owned operator of a Queensland power plant before a catastrophic explosion, a report finds.

The post Coal plant owner did not value safety before Callide explosion, report finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A fox in the sun, fireflies and a brush fire, and trees blanketed with butterflies are among the striking images caught by winners of the California Academy of Sciences’ annual contest. Now in its 11th year, it highlights biodiversity and the many threats our planet faces

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