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A conservation NGO, which estimates 3 billion tonnes of CO2 is being stored across the parks and protected areas it manages in Africa, has turned to developing REDD avoided deforestation projects to bolster finances.

Policymakers should support progress towards a European market for the transport of carbon dioxide by ship by creating the right conditions and identifying barriers, according to a report published Tuesday.

Subsidies under the UK’s post-Brexit sustainable farming scheme will be bolstered from this year, while premium payments will also be available for certain high priority action areas, in a bid to encourage more farmers to access the scheme.

The Kenyan government is proposing to take 15-25% of the income from carbon credits generated in the country to help meet its climate targets, according to draft carbon markets legislation.

Senior Program Manager is responsible for centrally supporting the initiatives and coordination of the Markets Program with a particular focus on program and project management for the team’s three primary pillars: REDD+ and carbon finance; sustainable commodities; and biodiversity mitigation hierarchy.

A UK-based nature start-up launched this week with plans to carry out ecological restoration projects and develop its own voluntary biodiversity credit standard to drive private investment.

Scientists say mining could have devastating impact on marine life, but Norway claims it will help green transition

Norway is expected to become the first country in the world to open up its seabed for deep-sea mining with a highly contentious parliamentary vote on Tuesday.

The decision comes despite warnings from scientists who say it could have a devastating impact on marine life, and opposition from the EU and the UK who have called for a temporary ban on deep-sea mining because of environmental concerns.

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Global temperatures in 2023 reached the highest levels ever recorded, with carbon emissions from raging global wildfires among the main drivers of the exceptional heat, data from the European Union’s space programme showed on Tuesday.

European carbon recovered from a sharp sell-off at the opening on Tuesday as it tracked movements in natural gas on an otherwise quiet morning, with traders awaiting the resumption of auctions next week as well as Wednesday's publication of the weekly Commitment of Traders data.

Climate records tumbled "like dominoes" in 2023, with temperatures far above any recorded level.

Climate records tumbled "like dominoes" in 2023, with temperatures far above any recorded level.

Rapid reduction in fossil fuel burning urgently needed to preserve liveable conditions, say scientists, as climate damage deepens

2023 “smashed” the record for the hottest year by a huge margin, providing “dramatic testimony” of how much warmer and more dangerous today’s climate is from the cooler one in which human civilisation developed.

The planet was 1.48C hotter in 2023 compared with the period before the mass burning of fossil fuels ignited the climate crisis. The figure is very close to the 1.5C temperature target set by countries in Paris in 2015, although the global temperature would need to be consistently above 1.5C for the target to be considered broken.

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One of Australia’s early carbon project developers has received an all-cash, off market takeover offer from Avatar Industries, a private entity controlled by an Australian businessman who already owns a significant chunk of the company.

The overall role of the Carbon Project Manager is to plan, coordinate and execute varied Baseline & Monitoring Surveys, Stakeholder Consultations, and other specified activities pursuant to the development and implementation of BURN’s carbon-financed Improved Cook Stove (“ICS”) Projects on time, on scope and on budget.

The overall role of the Carbon Project Manager is to plan, coordinate and execute varied Baseline and monitoring Surveys, Stakeholder Consultations, and other specified activities pursuant to the development and implementation of BURN’s carbon-financed Improved Cook Stove (“ICS”) Projects on time, on scope and on budget.

An India-based project developer has planned to rehabilitate red panda habitats in Nepal, with funding to come through the sale of biodiversity credits generated by the project.

EDF wants to inject an additional £1.3 billion into its existing UK nuclear fleet as the company aims to uphold current output levels and ensure energy security until at least 2026, it said Tuesday.

More than 5% of global emissions are linked to conflict or militaries but countries continue to hide the true scale

Emissions from Israel’s war in Gaza have ‘immense’ effect on climate catastrophe

In early 2022, journalists began to ask us how Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine was affecting the climate crisis. While we could point to landscape fires, burning oil refineries and the thirst of diesel-hungry military vehicles, the emissions data they sought just wasn’t available. When it came to the reverberating consequences of Russia’s manipulation of Europe’s fossil fuel insecurity, or to the weakening of the international cooperation necessary for coordinated global climate action, our guesses were no better than theirs.

Two decades of international analysis and debate over the relationship between climate change and security has focused on how our rapidly destabilising climate could undermine the security of states. But it has largely ignored how national security choices, such as military spending or warfighting, can have an impact on the climate, and so undermine our collective security.

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A major Japanese gas firm is lining up yet more offshore carbon capture and storage work in the Asia Pacific, announcing a study in the Gulf of Thailand with national oil company PTTEP.

Two Siamang gibbons rescued from the illegal pet trade have been rehabilitated in a new Indonesian centre

The forest chorus of South Sumatra in Indonesia has some of its finest singers back: a pair of rare Siamang gibbons, rescued from the illegal pet trade, have been released into the wild.

Siamang gibbons (Symphalangus syndactylus) are known for their distinctive large throat sacs. But their powerful, haunting voices, used for communication and marking territory, are a blessing and a curse.

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