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Two projects backed by Australia's richest woman will get federal funding of more than $1 billion to supercharge battery supply chain.

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The Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust says the scourge of gardeners are "nature's clean-up crew".

A report has highlighted the positive influence of climate framework laws on progress towards green goals, focusing on examples in Germany, Ireland, and New Zealand.

California regulator ARB has issued the highest number of compliance-grade offsets thus far this year, yet year-to-date totals continue to lag 2023 issuance, data published by the agency showed.

The NSW solar farm that shares equal billing as Australia's biggest operating PV project seals deal to supply commercial and industrial electricity retailer.

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The right-wing coalition government has announced local councils will no longer have to comply with Significant Natural Areas (SNAs) for three years, as it aims overhaul the country’s Resource Management Act to ramp up project approvals.

PVH today announced it will supply the 100MW Bundaberg solar farm project, which will hold the record as the country’s highest wind speed design tracker ever built.

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Members of a bank-led initiative convened by the UN have overwhelmingly voted to adopt an updated version of guidelines for the setting of climate targets by the sector, extending the scope to include capital markets activities.

Washington state’s Q1 auction settled less than $2 from the scheme’s floor price and about 50% below where the prior sale had cleared, results published Wednesday showed, as growing uncertainty surrounding the future of the state’s nascent cap-and-invest programme deterred buyers.

The update, announced by standards body Verra on Wednesday, would make the improved forest management (IFM) methodology the first to allow generation of both emissions reductions and carbon dioxide removals-labelled voluntary carbon credits.

A world-renowned direct air capture (DAC) developer based in Switzerland announced the opening of its US headquarters in Texas, eying a tripling of its American team by the end of 2024.

Governor Josh Shapiro (D) looks to establish a standalone cap-and-trade programme for the state of Pennsylvania and formally leave the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), according to Shapiro’s energy strategy released Wednesday.

The next wave of orphaned oil and gas wells is about to crop up in the US, offering significant potential to generate methane abatement credits.

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Green MP Caroline Lucas says call for investment in gas-fired power plants is election ploy that will jeopardise UK’s net zero target

Green MP Caroline Lucas has accused the government of stoking a culture war on climate issues by calling for more investment in new gas-fired power plants before a general election.

Lucas used an urgent question in the House of Commons to challenge the energy minister, Graham Stuart, on the plans set out on Wednesday, which could see a string of new plants built in the coming years despite the government’s commitment to phase out fossil fuels.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices plunged early in the day Wednesday, with traders reporting lower stops being triggered and heavy selling ahead of options expiring on Friday.

A coal-fired power station in Hungary and a mine in Poland have been granted more time to operate as part of separate decisions, reported in local media on Wednesday, drawing threats of legal action from environmental groups that say the moves contradict national climate targets.

Two corporations that supply giant technology company Apple have committed to invest a combined $80 mln in a nature-based carbon removal fund.

Environmental trading platform Regen Network has sold two-thirds of the biodiversity credits available from a jaguar conservation pilot over a 10,000-hectare area in the Ecuadorian jungle, it said on Wednesday.

A Texas-based telecommunications company will purchase CO2 removal (CDR) credits from a US developer of direct air capture (DAC) facilities, the firms announced Wednesday.