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A new forecast by a federal US energy agency projects an increase in wholesale power prices in 2025 across most of the regional grids, with affordability emerging as a central issue in North American carbon market states through ongoing rulemaking.

A New York state senator is giving another go at legislation that would require businesses to disclose their Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.

A Canadian university is outlining how local governments of all sizes can write nature into their financial reporting, as environmental assets are increasingly recognized as valuable infrastructure.  

The White House budget office on Wednesday withdrew its memo on the federal funding pause after a judge issued a stay on the order the previous day, but clarified that President Donald Trump’s executive orders (EOs) on spending freeze have not been scrapped.

An Asia Pacific carbon credit provider has appointed a new CEO, with the current chief moving to a new role as the company expands its project development work, the developer announced Thursday.

A federal funding announcement of $13.5 mln will be invested in seven carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects across Calgary and Edmonton.

Scale of battery and solar projects seeking grid connection soars, and capacity of new projects actually working through registration and commissioning has also more than doubled.

The post Battery and solar connection bids surge, as more than 10 GW of new capacity joins the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Genetic diversity is being lost across many species – especially birds and mammals. But you can help stop the decline. Robyn Shaw, Research Fellow in Conservation Genomics, University of Canberra Catherine Grueber, Associate Professor in Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Katherine Farquharson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bioinformatics, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Everyone thought koalas were solitary creatures. But a new paper reveals there is more to the social lives of koalas than previously thought. Darcy Watchorn, Threatened Species Biologist, Wildlife Conservation & Science Department, Zoos Victoria, and Visiting Scholar, School of Life & Environmental Science, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Emission targets could derail project as campaigners say net zero commitment cannot be met if expansion happens

• Reeves urged to rethink plans for airports and roads
• Heathrow third runway: promises, protest and U-turns

Rachel Reeves caused a furious backlash as she insisted a third runway at Heathrow was “set up for success”, despite scepticism in Whitehall that the plan can be reconciled with the UK’s climate obligations.

The chancellor made throwing the government’s weight behind Heathrow expansion the centrepiece of a major speech on growth on Wednesday.

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Standard-setter Verra said on Wednesday there is still work to be done to improve its requirements on safeguards in carbon projects, despite carrying out significant work in the area over the past year.

Ecuador’s environment ministry on Wednesday signed a deal with a public and private sector carbon credit buyers’ club to obtain at least $30 million in results-based payments from jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) emissions reductions.

A final investment decision on the EU's first power plant running on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is being delayed until legislators reach agreement on the EU's Green Claims Directive to secure funding from the sale of carbon credits, the company has said.

The EU will “stay the course on climate targets” but employ a more flexible method to get there, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday during the presentation of the executive's new 'Competitiveness Compass' meant to guide Brussels policymaking in the next five years.

Russia will need a jurisdictional price of between $20-25 per credit to see significant growth in afforestation, more than double the levy set under the pilot Sakhalin scheme, according to a new academic paper.

The EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) may be costly and disruptive for Northern Ireland, requiring payments of up to £200 million a year — unless the bloc and UK decide to link their emissions trading schemes, a new report warned on Wednesday.

Switzerland has approved a new emissions reduction target under the Paris Agreement, which has been criticised for not going far enough and relying too much on international carbon credits, while the government has also rejected a proposed new climate fund.

The impending US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement could influence the supply and demand dynamics under the CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme, progress towards the launch of the new Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), as well as the 2028 Article 6 review, though, overall, uncertainty clouds the outlook with experts still scrambling to make sense of the implications of the decision made by new US President Donald Trump.

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Analysis by dozens of scientists internationally notes urgent conservation efforts could halt or even reverse losses

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Genetic diversity in animals and plants has declined globally over the past three decades, an analysis of more than 600 species has found.

The research, published in the journal Nature, found declines in two-thirds of the populations studied, but noted that urgent conservation efforts could halt or even reverse genetic diversity losses.

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