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Is there value that justifies interconnection? AEMO and network asset owners insist there is, but they have so far failed to support the claim.

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The energy transition “has not truly started” and is almost certain to result in overshooting the Paris Agreement’s temperature limits, while a suite of geopolitical, technological, and policy forces set the stage for non-fossil energy sources to contribute half of the world’s energy mix in 2050, a new report said Wednesday.

A collection of Canadian financial and food firms on Tuesday launched a new alliance to slash emissions from the country’s agri-food sector by 2050, with the group hoping that helping improve soil carbon measurement and reporting will help achieve the goal.

Rather than paying ageing power stations to stay open in the transition to renewable energy, demand flexibility is cheaper and cleaner way to ensure the system has enough capacity. Chris Briggs, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A San Francisco-based voluntary carbon market sales company on Wednesday announced it has secured $2.25 mln in pre-seed funding for its plan to offer a diverse portfolio of credits in alignment with academic guidance.

The World Trade Organisation has reiterated it is working on a global carbon pricing framework to avoid a patchwork of different mechanisms popping up around the world, a representative told the Carbon Forward conference on Wednesday.

The UK will focus on bringing certainty and simplicity to Article 6 international emissions trade at COP28 UN negotiations, officials said on Wednesday, while reaffirming that the country does not intend to use international credits to meet its 2030 nationally determined contribution (NDC).

Pakistan is working to build a framework for how it will approach Article 6 international emissions trade and is in talks with several parties around bilateral agreements, according to a government official, while also working on sectoral targets as part of its nationally determined contributions (NDCs).

Tiny island in Bristol Channel has 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – and 1,335 puffins

There are more seabirds nesting on the island of Lundy than at any time since the 1930s, conservationists have revealed.

The tiny island in the Bristol Channel, a globally famed location for Britain’s seabirds, is now home to 25,000 Manx shearwaters – 95% of England’s breeding population – as well as 1,335 puffins and more than 150 pairs of storm petrels, a species that only arrived on the island in 2014.

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Corporates in some of the hardest to abate and polluting industrial sectors will make money from carbon markets in the next few years by deploying hedging strategies or receiving free allowances, amid the hodge podge of trading schemes around the world, an analyst told the Carbon Forward conference Wednesday.

Deal to buy Pioneer Natural Resources shows Exxon’s confidence that fossil fuel output will not be hampered in years to come

Oil giant ExxonMobil agreed to buy the shale group Pioneer Natural Resources for $59.5bn in a deal that places a vast bet on a future for fossil fuel production in the United States.

America’s largest oil and gas deal in more than two decades will increase Exxon’s dominance in the Permian Basin shale field, at the heart of the country’s transformation into the world’s biggest oil producer.

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Credits from UK woodland and peatland carbon projects are some of the most expensive units in the voluntary carbon market, data revealed Wednesday.

Channelling Villanelle, Annabelle Hickson’s onion chopping skills did not prepare her for the entry of the deadly brown snake that slithered into her farmhouse kitchen in rural NSW

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They say you can’t kill a brown snake because it’s a native animal. And that you definitely shouldn’t kill one with a shovel. And that guinea fowls are meant to scare snakes away. And that blue tongue lizards eat snake eggs.

But what are you to do when you’re in the kitchen chopping onions for dinner and the second most venomous snake in the world slithers in?

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The much-loved tree must be removed to protect Hadrian’s Wall, but its ultimate fate remains uncertain

The Sycamore Gap tree is being removed from its spot on Hadrian’s Wall after it was cut down by vandals two weeks ago.

On Thursday a crane will lift the 50-foot sycamore off the wall in Northumberland and it will be put into storage at a National Trust property – the location of which is not being disclosed for security reasons.

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The head of the body guiding which carbon cutting projects will be credited under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement is confident that finalised recommendations would not be rejected by countries during negotiations at COP28, but remains apprehensive on their reaction to the soon-to-be finalised document, she told the Carbon Forward conference on Wednesday.

Study shows quality and quantity of hops - a crucial ingredient - are falling with hotter weather.

The parliament of Malaysia on Wednesday passed legislation to regulate the country’s biggest energy consumers and ensure energy conservation in the country, according to media reports, a move expected to cut carbon emissions by 200 MtCO2e by mid-century.

European carbon prices clawed back early losses on Wednesday morning, as initial weakness triggered by falling energy prices was subsequently outweighed by the weekly Commitment of Traders data that showed investment funds had increased their net short position last week.

These hardy insects are incredibly good hitchhikers. We can slow their march, but we’ll never entirely eradicate them

The reported outbreak of bedbugs in Paris is hardly surprising. Reports of sightings on the London Underground – so far unsubstantiated, but quickly addressed by Sadiq Khan – are not surprising either. Bedbugs are everywhere. Bedbugs can be found in any city around the world, in any location, from youth hostels to five-star hotels. There are not yet clear numbers on the purported “explosion” of bedbugs in Paris, but in the UK, pest control company Rentokil reported a 65% increase in bedbug infestations in the UK from 2022 to 2023.

As we return to pre-pandemic levels of travel, bedbugs are on the move, and this is likely to cause more sightings. They tend to travel in people’s suitcases and end up in our bedrooms – they are incredibly good hitchhikers. The rise in popularity of secondhand furniture is another way for bedbugs to enter our homes.

James Logan is professor of medical entomology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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People involved with developing the EU’s list of sustainable activities are unhappy with how it has addressed biodiversity so far, the ex-biodiversity lead for influential advisory group Platform on Sustainable Finance (PSF) has said.