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Buyers club Frontier will offer grants to support the identification of reactive rock deposits suitable for carbon removal (CDR) projects.

An advisory body to the Hong Kong government has outlined the main steps needed to establish itself as a major carbon trading hub, focusing on securing a position as a link between Mainland China and the global market.

Action on nature could be boosted by blended finance, sending whole-of-government signals, and larger transactions, financiers said during a UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) event in Switzerland on Tuesday.

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive

A Scottish carbon removals company has signed a deal to permanently store 50,000 tonnes of CO2 in a depleted North Sea oilfield, it announced on Wednesday.

A US oil and gas company announced plans Wednesday to plough up to $30 billion in "low emissions opportunities" between 2025 and 2030, with almost 65% spent on reducing climate impact for third-party customers.

An international consultancy has secured a contract to manage the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage (CCS), which could sequester up to 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year, and received financial approval on Tuesday.

Biodiversity credit markets are unlikely to be effective for nature if they function as offsets, as they will require an excessive amount of regulation to check they are achieving credible gains for nature, according to a group of UK academics.

Mapping based on documents released under right-to-information laws show proposed areas include habitats for 37 threatened species

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Environmentalists have released what they say are the first maps of nearly 40,000 hectares of protected Tasmanian native forests that the state government plans to open to logging in what critics have described as “political point scoring”.

They suggest significant parts of the state’s north-east around the Ben Lomond national park and near the town of Scottsdale could be made available to the forestry industry if the Liberal government wins support for the changes in parliament. A smaller area of forest could be opened up in the north-west between Smithton and Wynyard.

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Europe still has a chance to compete with China and the US on clean technologies like offshore wind, power grids, heat pumps, and electrolysers, provided it can make the right decisions and act swiftly, according to the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Access to balanced diet also affected by inflation and Brexit, hitting most vulnerable households hardest

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Numbers of hungry and malnourished households in the UK are on the rise because of climate breakdown and inflation, government figures show, with poorer, younger and disabled people hit hardest.

Many households worry about food running out, cannot afford balanced meals, experience hunger and have missed meals in the past 30 days, the figures reveal.

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Researchers have found a potential new way of using CO2 to create valuable products such as fuel, a Korean university announced on Wednesday.

Environmental corporate commitments have broadened over the past couple of years, driven by an unprecedented increase in biodiversity-related target setting among some of the world's biggest companies, according to global consulting firm McKinsey.

European carbon prices strengthened on Wednesday morning as the market focused on the expiry of the December options contract shortly after midday, while weekly positioning data showed investment funds continued to add to their net long positions last week, amassing the biggest bullish bias in 20 months.

Ships may have to transport some 100 million tonnes of CO2 annually between jurisdictions by mid-century, which will require huge advance efforts in terms of funding and other preparations, according to a report released Wednesday.

The production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is growing in volume, but at a very slow rate, industry association International Air Transport Organisation (IATA) said this week.

A Stockholm-based climate funding platform has secured $5 million from US software giant Salesforce to scale early-stage carbon removal funding, the company announced on Wednesday.

The Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX), subsidiary of Bursa Malaysia, has initiated trading of Gold Standard-certified voluntary carbon credits, it announced Wednesday.

Andrew Powell first said he was not ‘100% convinced’ 12 years ago while holding the portfolio during the Campbell Newman era

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Queensland’s environment minister has told parliament he stands by his comments more than a decade ago that he was “a bit sceptical” about human involvement in climate change.

Andrew Powell returned to the environment, tourism, science and innovation portfolio last month, having held it under the former premier Campbell Newman in 2012.

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