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British PM to tell UN summit of plans for rainforests and new national park – but green groups remain sceptical

Rishi Sunak is to announce a new package of green measures as the Cop28 UN climate summit begins in Dubai, including a search for a national park, a strategy on British rainforests and landscape recovery projects with farmers.

But green groups have told the Guardian the package is greenwashing and an attempt by the UK prime minister to “reset” his reputation after previously opposing environmental measures.

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Kate Muller from Norton Rose Fulbright talks with Habitat’s Ben Irons and colleague Nick Abrahams on the role AI will play in a grid making switch from spinning machines to inverter-based tech.

The post Podcast Special: AI, inverters and a smarter grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The government of Alberta will provide energy, building, and chemical industries with a 12% incentive tax credit for new eligible capital project costs on carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) operations, funded in part by its emissions trading system, the province announced Tuesday.

Danish developer GreenGo Energy announces plans to build one of the world's biggest green energy parks – a 60GW/190TWh project in West Africa.

The post “Megaton Moon:” Danish developer plans 60GW solar and wind energy park appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The promises, plans and targets of state and federal governments and ambitious developers for wind, solar and storage are not being reflected on the ground. Something must be missing.

The post Lot’s of talk, not enough action: Wind, solar and storage projects stalled at starting gate appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Alberta’s United Conservative government introduced a resolution Monday to challenge the federal Liberal government’s draft regulations in pursuit of a nation-wide net zero electricity grid by 2035.

The NSW Planning Department has made life difficult for project developers. If it continues, consumers will pay a heavy price for unreliable power from coal stations that should have been closed years ago.

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The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) issued new guidance today for carbon credit-buying firms, including a new proposed use case for carbon credits that has swiftly divided opinion, with campaigners warning the proposal risks diluting company goals and market participants claiming it could raise ambition by encouraging more companies to take action.

A technology company, an offset project developer, and an Indigenous tribe have pooled resources and funding to co-develop the first phase of an Improved Forest Management (IFM) project in the northern regions of British Columbia.

In what’s likely to be the hottest year on record, nations are gathering to try and hash out faster action on climate change. Here are the three main issues facing negotiators. Brendan Mackey, Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The success of this week’s UN climate summit will depend on one man who must know that a favourable result would be bad news for the industry he represents

History was made in Glasgow in 2021 when “fossil fuels” appeared in the Cop26 declaration. It was the first time they had ever been mentioned in the text of a Cop agreement – officially recognising the taproot of a human-led climate emergency. Two years is a long time in geopolitics. This year’s Cop28, which begins on Thursday in Dubai, will be presided over by Sultan Al Jaber, the chief executive of the state oil company of the United Arab Emirates, which has the largest net-zero-busting expansion plans of any fossil fuel business in the world.

It was already doubtful that Mr Al Jaber was fit to lead global climate negotiations while responsible for planet-wrecking activities. This week’s revelations that he planned to lobby on oil and gas deals during meetings with foreign governments ahead of Cop28 further damage his credibility as an honest broker in climate negotiations. Mr Al Jaber had a hard enough job without hustles making a mockery of his independence.

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EU ETS revenues are still being directed to fossil fuels infrastructure due to legal loopholes and a lack of transparency, green groups warned on Tuesday.

India has pledged to triple its renewable energy capacity by 2030 as part of efforts to meet climate targets, but needs to spend $101 billion more than planned this decade to align itself with the International Energy Agency’s pathway to meeting its 2070 net zero target, according to a report released Wednesday.

A US carrier has become the first customer of a carbon dioxide removal (CDR) company that compresses biomass residue, such as timber or farm crops, into dense carbon blocks at relatively low cost.

The world is on track to exceed 2°C warming within the next five years, with dire consequences for polar ice, mountain glaciers and permafrost – and human society. Timothy Naish, Professor in Earth Sciences, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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With the UN body mandated to shape the carbon crediting mechanism under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement having already produced its final recommendations, the focus on markets in negotiations at COP28 will be on finalising technical details relating to the international trade of units, such as determining the rules around national authorisation of transactions, the transparency of reporting, and establishing safeguards for the mechanism.

An Estonia carbon project developer has raised €2.5 million in seed funding to expand its European portfolio of forestry activities, it said Tuesday.

Just four of 53 of the world’s biggest companies most at-risk from deforestation loss have a policy on the topic covering their entire supply chains, non-profit Ceres has found.

German utility RWE, historically the biggest emitter in the EU ETS, is dropping its 'strategic' hedging of carbon for lignite coal power production, it announced Tuesday, as it unveiled an ambitious new roadmap for green energy technology investment over the next seven years.