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An appeals court in Peru has unexpectedly overturned a landmark ruling that would have given an Indigenous community there the right to reclaim ancestral rainforests in the Cordillera Azul National Park, which has been registered as a REDD+ project.

Miner BHP has picked three projects to support via its blue carbon grants programme in a bid to help drive marine emissions cuts across Australia and develop blue carbon methodologies for the domestic carbon market.

Officials say a substance used to mark them might be to blame for the deaths at Philadelphia Zoo.

Tree-changers can get a bad rap for not managing their properties well. So will this lead to more absentee neighbours who let weeds run rampant? Nicholas Gill, Associate Professor in Geography, University of Wollongong Anna Lewis, Research Program Manager, University of Wollongong Laurie Chisholm, Associate Professor in Remote Sensing, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Wireless charging using laser beams - as envisaged by Nikolai Tesla - comes with risks - but could also solve some interesting grid problems.

The post Australian startup that sends electricity via lasers wins $3m in seed funding appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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VNI West lays bare a transmission investment test that is comprehensively gamed by its proponents

The post The investment test for electricity transmission has become a sham appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia slips further down renewable energy rankings due to questions about its renewables targets and green hydrogen. US and Germany take top two spots.

The post Australia slips in renewable rankings amid doubts over 82 pct target and green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Quebec distributed more compliance offsets than WCI partner California this week, as a plunge in the Golden State's issuances lined up with one of the few yearly allocations by La Belle Province, according to government data published Wednesday.

California regulator ARB discussed potential scenarios of raising the Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) tiers and ceiling prices in addition to modelling increased stringency of the cap-and-trade programme at a webinar on Wednesday, adding that formal rulemaking could begin as early as this year.

Researchers' discoveries include a rowan found growing more than 3,700ft up a Highland mountain.

The EU's panel of climate science advisors has recommended that the bloc set a 2040 greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal of 90-95% below 1990 levels in upcoming legislation, an interim goal that would hinge largely on the rapid decarbonisation of the power sector.

The Nova Scotia carbon auction this month sold all allowances at the scheme’s floor price, with the Canadian province’s largest utility not having qualified after receiving millions of extra free permits this spring, according to results published Wednesday.

US biofuel credit (RIN) prices will continue to face pressure if the EPA does not hike the next three years’ worth of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) quotas in an upcoming final rulemaking, a major investment bank said Tuesday.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes this week signed legislation to reduce costs for firms utilising voluntary carbon credits and position the Brazilian city as a centre of the green economy.

The British Columbia government on Tuesday put the province’s fuel switching offset protocol (FSOP) under review because emissions reductions under the methodology may no longer be additional to business-as-usual practice.

The delayed German national security strategy was published Wednesday and includes key climate pledges including a promise for a 'substantial contribution' to international climate finance, rapid operationalisation of the global loss and damage finance mechanism, and a doubling down on the creation of an climate club between countries.

Payne is credited for helping save whales from extinction by recording their songs and galvanizing a global movement

Roger Payne, the US scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. He was 88.

Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda when a navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented while listening for Russian submarines. Payne identified the haunting tones as songs whales sing to one another.

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When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmental activists sued EPA to update regulations, after thousands of people sickened from Deepwater Horizon cleanup

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced more stringent rules governing offshore oil spill response, amid continuing concerns about the effects on public health and wildlife from chemical disasters, including BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010.

The federal agency, which announced the update on Monday, had not updated its rule regulating the chemicals used to break up offshore oil slicks since 1994.

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