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The technology gap between the private sector and regulators could create a data mismatch, despite advancements in digital measurement, reporting, and verification (dMRV), a conference heard Wednesday.

Japanese oil and gas firm Inpex plans to generate and sell carbon credits from its Abadi LNG carbon capture and storage project in Indonesia, a conference heard Wednesday.

Ducks Unlimited has partnered with two other US-based organisations to launch a collaborative initiative to reforest over 3,000 acres of land in the Mississippi River Valley, focusing on restoring bottomland hardwood forests and capturing an estimated 400,000 tonnes of CO2 over the next four decades.

A Sydney-based carbon fund manager has appointed a new CEO to oversee a A$100-mln fund to earn Australian Carbon Credit Units from premium environmental plantings.

California compliance offset issuances almost doubled compared to ARB's prior distribution, once again surpassing last year's pace, state data published Wednesday showed, although no new issuances were tagged with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), resulting in record high premiums for DEBs-tagged units.

A US-headquartered voluntary carbon standard and registry this week announced the acceptance of credit applications under its newly-developed methane capture and reclamation protocol.

An expansive study by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) has shed light on the varying carbon stocks within dry heath forest ecosystems across the country, highlighting a stark contrast between northern and southern regions as well as between pine- and spruce-dominated forests.

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A coalition for carbon management has put forward safety-focused proposals to scale the CO2 pipeline infrastructure, while reviewing the sector’s safety record.

New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra announced Thursday it is targeting a 30% intensity reduction in on-farm emissions by 2030, as a coalition of the country's business leaders have said they are doing the heavy lifting to reduce emissions in the country.

Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change

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Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) – a sort of quasi-thinktank fronted by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.

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Bill Gates backs a radical new design for wind energy which proponents claim could slash the cost of the technology.

The post Bill Gates backs radical new wind energy design using track-based wings appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Los Angeles-based startup has initiated a groundbreaking commercial pilot project in California, which it said is introducing the world’s first water-positive CO2 removal system.

SA Power Networks says grid has plenty of capacity to absorb "explosion" in electric vehicles, which he says will help households halve their annual energy bills.

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Countries seeking EU membership must align with the bloc's climate policies, including its ETS, according to a set of enlargement plans presented by the European Commission on Wednesday that were light on specific requirements.

Apartment residents need more sustainable, climate-adapted designs. They shouldn’t have to depend on costly, high-emissions air conditioning to remain comfortable and healthy. Nicole Cook, Lecturer, School of Geography and Sustainable Communities, University of Wollongong Sophie-May Kerr, Research Associate, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New research on insects – without which the planet would not survive – shows a higher proportion are at risk of disappearing

Two million species are at risk of extinction, a figure that is double previous UN estimates, new analysis has found.

While scientists have long documented the decline of species of plants and vertebrates, there has always been significant uncertainty over insects, with the UN making a “tentative estimate” of 10% threatened with extinction in 2019.

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Two North American carbon removal project developers have partnered to deploy units that capture CO2 and sequester it in the ocean off the coast of Canada.

Campaigners call Graham Stuart’s comments ‘laughable’ and say Conservatives are weaponising climate action

Oil and gas are “not the problem” for the climate, but the carbon emissions arising from them are, the UK’s net zero minister has told MPs.

In words that suggested the UK could place yet more emphasis on technologies to capture and store carbon, Graham Stuart said fossil fuel production was not driving climate change, but demand for fossil fuels was.

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Ofwat’s newfound interest in executive pay in the water industry is merely a tweak

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About 30 years too late, many might say, here comes Ofwat with details on how it will “crack down”, as it puts it, on executive pay in the English water sector. Since the regulator’s new powers to interfere on boardroom pay don’t kick in until next year, this year’s assessment can be considered an explainer on how a new offside rule will work.

And the news from the video assistant referee is that Severn Trent, South West Water and Portsmouth Water committed offences that “did not meet our expectations”, says Ofwat, because either short- or long-term incentives were insufficiently aligned to good outcomes for customers or the environment. Does that mean the executives would have faced the humiliation of returning their dodgy rewards?

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