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Former Gabon environment minister Lee White and three other officials of the previous Ali Bongo-led government have been placed under house arrest, according to state media agency Agence Gabonaise de Presse (AGP), heightening current uncertainty around the forest-rich nation's carbon policy.

Sustainable alternative fuels (SAF) should be included on a list of 'strategic technologies' to be given priority treatment as part of the bloc’s clean technology industry bill, a group of EU industry associations said in a joint letter published on Friday.

UK-based Biodiversity Futures Initiative (BFI) aims to provide scientific robustness to biodiversity credit projects and certifications, so buyers have confidence in outcomes and the projects have a greater impact on nature.

Voluntary carbon credit projects in India do little to help local people or the climate and may even lead to more greenhouse gas emissions, researchers said in a report published this week following extensive site visits and stakeholder interviews.

Dale Vince says he will concentrate his efforts on getting Tories voted out of government at next election

• Dale Vince: I helped fund Just Stop Oil, but no more

Dale Vince, the green energy magnate, has said he is to stop funding direct action climate groups such as Just Stop Oil and instead funnel money towards getting the vote out for Labour at the next general election.

The Ecotricity founder, who has funded a string of disruptive environmental protest groups, has supported Just Stop Oil since its inception, and has previously said his funding for the group has totalled “some hundreds of thousands”.

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Biodiversity credits have a slim chance of becoming a global market larger than the voluntary carbon markets, according to an executive at a global carbon and biodiversity credit firm.

The oil firm run by the head of COP28, Sultan Al-Jaber, is on course to increase emissions from its oil and gas operations by more than 40% by the end of the decade compared to 2023, an international NGO has calculated in a report published this week.

EUAs traded flat across the morning in a thin range as they remain on course to chart a weekly loss, with gas cited as the main driver, while UK prices gained in response to the government's auction schedule publication.

Government challenged to explain claim that UK will need 25% of energy to come from fossil fuels in 2050

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The UK government has “misrepresented” the Climate Change Committee (CCC) by wrongly claiming it said we would need a quarter of our energy to come from fossil fuels by 2050, scientists have said.

In order to justify signing off new oil and gas licences in the North Sea, ministers have said the country will still require a quarter of its energy to come from gas in 2050, the year the UK is supposed to meet net zero.

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Study proposes government commission more research into environmental benefits of cattle feed additives

Sweden is one step closer to making the use of methane-reducing cow feed additives such as seaweed government policy after experts recommended further investigation into the area.

A report by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency into reduced methane emissions says development in the field has been “rapid in recent years” and is among “a number of new interesting additives with higher potential”.

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A recently launched environmental commodities asset management firm in India says the emerging market for plastic credits holds great promise for the South Asian nation, despite regulatory developments restricting market potential.

Malaysian state oil giant Petronas has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Japanese government bodies to explore carbon capture and storage projects and the transboundary movement of liquified CO2.

Methane emissions from LNG-fueled ships may be on average double the level current EU and global regulations assume, a study has found, with demand only expected to grow for the gas.

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs, including an endangered rhino, a reindeer herd and a roaring stag

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Class politics is nowhere more visible than in the protected slaughter of game, with disastrous effects on our countryside

It’s one of the bluntest expressions of class power in the United Kingdom. Like all expressions of class power, it has become normalised until we treat it as a fixed fact of national life. I’m talking about the bronze plague that spreads over the British lowlands every year, wiping out much of our wildlife: pheasants.

This week, the pheasant shooting season began, appropriately coinciding with the Conservative party conference. Killing them requires no physical exertion and a limited skillset, as the birds are driven over the heads of the shooters by people hired to flush them out of the woods. The men (almost all are) with the guns spray shot at the low-flying birds, killing some, wounding some, missing others. One estimate suggests that between 30% and 40% of all the pheasants shot are wounded and not recovered, dying slowly in the woods.

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A company developing biodiversity credits in South America is in the closing stages of having its project methodology approved by standard body Cercarbono, after which it hopes to have its credits listed on two carbon trading platforms before the end of the year.

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Cargill and ADM led push to weaken new protections for threatened ecosystems in South America, report says

Cargill and ADM, two of the world’s leading livestock feed companies, helped to scupper an attempt to end the trade in soya beans grown on deforested and threatened ecosystem lands in South America, a new report alleges.

Soya is one of the cheapest available types of edible protein, and is in huge demand for feed for animals around the world; as our consumption of meat and dairy has risen globally, the need for soya has soared too.

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Cannon-Brookes provides bulk of funds for start-up hoping to help solve the wind and solar connection log jams on Australia's main grid.

The post Cannon-Brookes backs power engineers aiming to solve renewables grid connection log-jam appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Battery storage will see changes in chemistries in the push for longer lasting batteries for the grid, and less range obsession for EVs. And even solid state batteries could be a thing by 2030.

The post The massive battery storage projects that will replace coal and gas, and fossil cars appeared first on RenewEconomy.