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Genex Power secures $44.5m funding deal with J-Power to bring home flagship pumped hydro project and drive development of huge Bulli Creek battery.

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The firm is struggling to stop climate misinformation spreading on its platform, BBC investigation finds.

A new study highlights the relative benefits and impacts of two major carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods - bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) and afforestation and reforestation (AR) - on the carbon cycle and surface climate.

Users are being incorrectly shown forecasts in the single figures throughout the coming days.

BlackRock says it may expand Waratah Super Battery, and is also looking at offshore wind, small scale solar and storage, and more EV chargers in Australia.

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Scientists have developed a new technology that increases the accuracy of measuring methane emissions from rice paddy fields, in a breakthrough that could have important implications for the voluntary carbon market.

Gene editing is being introduced which could improve the flavour and growing time for British strawberries.

An extraordinary image of ghost particles in the Milky Way is captured by an observatory buried at the South Pole.

Voluntary carbon market experts have questioned whether the VCMI’s claims code sets too high a bar for many companies to be able to buy carbon credits, risking a drop off in demand.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices fell each day this week on reported profit-taking and as the front-month contract went into delivery, while Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) values seesawed following two weeks of stagnation and as the state distributed free permits for natural gas utilities.

A cross-stakeholder carbon capture body has launched for public consultation its first four carbon accounting methodologies that have been developed under Verra's voluntary carbon VCS programme, spanning carbon capture and storage, direct air capture, saline solutions, and CO2 transport.

Conservationists suspect white-tailed sea eagles have been eating avian flu-infected prey.

New bins, scanners and miles of conveyor belts should help reduce waste, Cambridge University says.

US biofuel credit (RIN) values lurched higher in recent days to match levels before the EPA’s publication of final multi-year Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) quotas, as market participants pointed to increased refiner buying and a tighter surplus bank.

A US-based soil carbon project developer has put forth an idea for a new removal credit that combines immediately available nature-based tonnes with engineered technologies that will sequester CO2 at a later point.

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) convened on Thursday a new task force to address environmental fraud and misconduct in carbon credit markets, as well as a team overseeing issues related to cybersecurity and emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI).

Hungry for development and industry investment, the Northern Territory government is putting one of the world’s last intact tropical ecosystems at risk. Scientists are calling for better protections. Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Brett Murphy, Professor, Charles Darwin University John Woinarski, Professor of Conservation Biology, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The VCMI's new code for corporate buying will accept carbon credits currently trading below $1 based on an "understanding" of improved quality, while the cross-stakeholder body will soon develop special provisions for specific buyers.

Any financial reconstruction of Thames is simple. Shareholders and bondholders are on the hook

What did Sarah Bentley, the now ex-chief executive of Thames Water, mean when she warned repeatedly in her final months in the job that England’s largest water and wastewater company had been “hollowed out over decades”?

A benign(ish) interpretation is that she was merely reprising what everybody has known for years: that Thames was rinsed by its former owners, most notably the Australian financial outfit Macquarie, which was the dominant shareholder from 2006 to 2017. That was the period in which the company’s borrowings were increased towards today’s towering level of £14bn and the regulator Ofwat was reduced, more or less, to appealing for Macquarie to get out and make way for more far-sighted owners.

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