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A UK-based company on Thursday announced it has partnered with US stock exchange Nasdaq to provide carbon accounting services to firms ahead of the anticipated launch of the Biden administration’s final climate disclosure rules.

Canada’s proposed Clean Electricity Regulations (CER) largely hold jurisdiction to regulate the CO2 emissions of provincial electricity generation, legal experts told Carbon Pulse, despite claims from the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan that the forthcoming climate policy is unconstitutional. 

Landslides and flash floods have killed dozens India's Himalayan states this month.

Masdar's bid for the job marks the lowest levelised cost of energy for solar commissioned under Dubai's massive solar park developments.

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on Thursday announced new open-source software to allow countries to manage national data and trade in carbon credits, bucking the existing trend of monolithic and siloed systems.

Fire frequency is increasing in all ecosystems studied. But in some places, fires were occurring so often it put entire ecosystems at risk of collapse. David Lindenmayer, Professor, The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Chris Taylor, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Maldwyn John Evans, Senior Research Fellow, Australian National University Philip Zylstra, Adjunct Associate Professor at Curtin University, Research Associate at University of New South Wales, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Commission adopted on Thursday the reporting rules for the bloc's upcoming carbon carbon adjustment mechanism (CBAM), starting its transitional phase in October.

The market for nature-based carbon solutions is likely to grow to as much as $250 billion a year in the next decade, with an increasing focus on combining natural carbon sinks with technology-based removals expected to help drive the voluntary market to as much as $1.5 trillion by 2050, according to a new report.

Water of about 26 million is contaminated as new data offers the most robust look into exactly which communities are polluted

Drinking water consumed by millions of Americans from hundreds of communities spread across the United States is contaminated with dangerous levels of toxic chemicals, according to testing data released Thursday by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

The data shows that drinking water systems serving small towns to large cities – from tiny Collegeville, Pennsylvania, to Fresno, California – contain measurable levels of so-called “forever chemicals”, a family of durable compounds long used in a variety of commercial products but that are now known to be harmful.

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Investor TPG Rise Climate on Thursday announced it has acquired a majority stake in UK-headquartered refrigerant capture company A-Gas, allowing it to gain a stronger footing in the US carbon offset market.

A carbon credit ratings agency has partnered with research institutions on a European Space Agency project to assess impact of wildfires on the carbon cycle, the company announced on Thursday.

The Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) signalled a significant increase in validated corporate climate targets in its 2022 annual report, but flagged a lack of full coverage with progress reporting.

Progress is being made to advance the fledgling market for blue carbon through dedicated methodologies and capacity building efforts, yet more could be done to enable project developers to access the carbon markets more effectively and to scale projects faster, say industry experts.

But experts say damage can be reversed if US and Canada act quickly to stop new plastics from entering lake system

About 90% of water samples taken over the last 10 years from the Great Lakes contain microplastic levels that are unsafe for wildlife, a new peer-reviewed paper from the University of Toronto finds.

About 20% of those samples are at the highest level of risk, but the study’s authors say the damage can be reversed if the US and Canada quickly act.

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Mandatory reporting for large and medium-sized businesses would lower prices and help climate, say campaigners

The government has been criticised for binning food waste legislation that campaigners say could have reduced food prices and helped tackle the climate crisis.

The policy would have made food waste reporting mandatory for large and medium-sized businesses in England. According to research by the environmental campaign group Feedback, if it led to just a 1% reduction in food waste, food businesses would save an estimated total of at least £24.4m a year.

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Financial institutions are failing to account for nature-related dependencies and risks in their decision-making, according to a report published Thursday.

European carbon prices rose for the fifth time in the last six sessions on Thursday, climbing to their highest in 13 days and shrugging off the weakest auction in seven weeks as buying activity picked up slightly, while energy markets continued to consolidate amid uncertainty over LNG supply in the coming weeks.

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A UK-based charity has purchased land in Alentejo, Portugal with a vision to transform it into a rewilding project and sanctuary for former circus elephants.

Listed company MPower says the value of the Lakeland solar and storage project it bought last year has doubled.

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