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An agtech-focused carbon credit developer has had its methodology published in a peer-reviewed journal, which they claim adds scientific weight to their crediting approach.

Yellowknife's mayor cautioned returning residents that the city "will look a little bit different".

It will likely take until 2024 for three different integrity initiatives to resolve declining voluntary carbon market (VCM) prices, researchers said in a report released Wednesday.

First Sentier Investors, a global investment manager, has launched guide Thursday designed to help institutional investors identify and assess nature and biodiversity risk in portfolio companies in light of the final framework outlined by the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), which is due to be published imminently.

But Mr Biden has not reversed his recent approval of an $8bn drilling project in the same region.

Confusion on how to understand the legal nature and classification of carbon credits highlights the need for global harmonisation in the international marketplace, said a panel of lawyers at a webinar on Wednesday.

D6 RINs plunged to a 1.5-year low this week, as market participants attributed the decrease to an oversupply of D4 credits under the US Renewable Fuel Standard and the impact of a falling bean oil-heat oil spread.

The August auction for Washington’s WCI-modelled cap-and-invest programme sold out at a new high and triggered its second reserve sale this fall, according to results published Wednesday, though permit values tumbled on the secondary market after the Department of Ecology (ECY) revealed millions of these forthcoming cost containment allowances would be sold exclusively at the scheme’s lower reserve tier price well below recent levels.

The European Commission is set to introduce EU ETS allowance transaction limits as part of security measures for the market's Union Registry, with a regulation due to enter into force on Sunday that includes a provision to charge a new fee for registry access.

Compared to roughly 80% in the US, UK and NZ, only 11% of Australian homes have high-performance windows. Installing them can transform a household’s comfort, energy use and emissions. Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Lisa de Kleyn, Research Fellow, Climate Change Adaptation Lab, La Trobe University Tom Simko, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Our research has found 30,000 farm dams which could be used as energy storage. Solar by day, hydro by night. Nicholas Gilmore, Lecturer in Engineering Design, UNSW Sydney Martino Malerba, ARC DECRA Fellow, Deakin University Thomas Britz, Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Despite suffering some of the worst impacts of climate change, the continent only gets 12% of financing.

Some 13% of approximately 1,000 banks covered by ISS ESG’s data service are linked to biodiversity controversies, according to an executive at the company.

Tens of thousands of UK buildings should be safety checked because of RAAC concrete, experts warn.

A group of REDD project developers and experts are backing a new standard body that will provide an alternative to Verra’s proposed consolidated methodology for avoided deforestation, a well-placed source has told Carbon Pulse.

An announcement is likely soon on the UK becoming a fully-fledged member of the multi-billion euro programme.

A group of UN finance organisations have launched voluntary principles to guide market participants for bond instruments in an effort to increase biodiversity and climate-focused investment in marine projects.

A coalition comprising some of the largest environmental organisations and business groups has banded together to define the term 'nature positive', in a bid to clear up its meaning for stakeholders in nature and biodiversity.

States face challenges getting federal aid amid dwindling Fema funds and laws that don’t consider heat a climate disaster

The spiraling costs of extreme weather in the US are hitting hard as more than 60 million Americans are under heat alerts this week, experts say, even though federal law does not explicitly consider heatwaves to be climate disasters.

Temperatures on Tuesday climbed toward record highs across the north-east, upper midwest and mid-Atlantic, with the south also bracing for soaring temperatures later in the week.

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Decision on regulations for ground-level ozone – AKA smog – avoids election-year battle with industry groups and Republicans

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for ground-level ozone – better known as smog – despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.

The decision by the EPA Administrator, Michael Regan, means that one of the agency’s most important air quality regulations will not be updated until well after the 2024 presidential election.

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