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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

• Ban bonuses to water company bosses, Ofwat told

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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A pair of US lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle introduced legislation in the House of Representatives on Tuesday to garner federal government support for interagency work around soil carbon sequestration, research, and monitoring.

Companies and non-EU governments impacted by the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) said the legislation is forcing them to disclose 'trade secrets' about their supply chains, and that the lack of regulatory detail is hindering their ability to prepare, an event in Brussels heard on Wednesday, as a Turkish official confirmed that the nation plans to launch an ETS next year.

The first forward purchase agreement has been signed for carbon credits for avoiding the creation of contrails, a form of non-CO2 pollution created by flying, though some airlines remain hesitant about the climate impacts even as initial regulations loom.

Virginia Democrats are on track to hold the state Senate and win back the House of Delegates following Tuesday's legislative election, putting the brakes on Governor Glenn Youngkin's (R) agenda.

Five free-to-access mapped datasets to help companies understand the land, carbon, and biodiversity impacts of their agricultural supply chains have been launched by data agency Vizzuality.

Five companies have been named as early adopters of the VCMI’s code on making credible claims about voluntary carbon credit use, the cross-stakeholder body said on Wednesday.

Millions of people’s lives wrecked by droughts that used to happen once every 250 years but now expected once a decade

Extreme droughts that have wrecked the lives of millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran since 2020 would not have happened without human-caused global heating, a study has found.

The climate crisis means such long-lasting and severe droughts are no longer rare, the analysis showed. In the Tigris-Euphrates basin, which covers large parts of Syria and Iraq, droughts of this severity happened about once every 250 years before global heating – now they are expected once a decade.

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Asset manager Fidelity International plans to expand its range of sustainable strategies to cover nature-related themes including oceans and water.

An environmental consultancy has developed a “rigorous” crediting methodology to quantify and verify CO2 removals achieved using marine microalgae.

European carbon prices recovered from early lows after the weekly Commitment of Traders data showed investment funds have amassed the largest total short position in two years and the largest-ever net short position, but the scale of the reaction left many participants still unsure about which way prices are likely to move.

A mass die-off of trees could happen in the next 50 years unless action is taken, warn experts.

Campaigners call for urgent action after data shows almost all bird types reducing in abundance

Woodland birds are facing an accelerating decline in the UK, with species at risk of extinction if the government does not act, experts have said.

Data released by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has revealed that almost all bird types are reducing in abundance, despite years of warnings from nature bodies that action needs to be taken to protect habitats and save species.

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A potential environmental game-changer, agroforestry has so far been overlooked and under-incentivised according to a US farming group, but the upcoming farm bill is an opportunity to switch up the rules.