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Indonesia’s former defence minister Prabowo Subianto declared victory late Wednesday in Indonesia’s presidential election, after unofficial tallies showed he had secured a majority of the votes.

California compliance-grade offset issuance over the last three weeks fell to almost 45% below January’s distribution, with units offering direct environmental benefits (DEBs) to the state also trailing the prior month, according to data published by state regulator ARB on Wednesday.

The European Parliament is examining what lessons can be learned from restrictions on tobacco lobbyists to protect the environment from continued use of fossil fuels.

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It’s a horror story unfolding in the west that could sweep across the country. Beware the shot-hole borer, an exotic pest that threatens our tree crops, plantations, urban forests and wild places. Theo Evans, Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia Bruce Webber, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Australia's biggest energy retailer doubles underlying earnings to $1.995 billion, taking advantage of higher bills and lower fuel costs, but remains coy about the future of the Eraring and pace of green energy transition.

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Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) generated a record-high volume of credits for the second consecutive quarter, growing the programme’s credit bank amid cratering secondary market prices, according to state data published Tuesday.

A climate solutions company specialising in technology to cut methane emissions and deliver affordable zero-emissions hydrogen has closed on a $10 million investment to further develop its offering.

A carbon capture technology company is looking to raise capital via a private placement of shares to fund expansion into the US and develop its technology further.  

The Article 6.4 Supervisory Body, mandated to shape the rules governing carbon crediting under the Paris Agreement, will come together to discuss several procedural mechanisms and the role of a centralised registry at the end of February, as observers noted with surprise a developed appendix dedicated to REDD+ activities in one of the draft documents published ahead of the meeting.

Fossil fuel companies should be held accountable for their contribution to inflation, and kept at arm's length from policy making, just like tobacco lobbyists, according to groups heard on Wednesday by the European Parliament's Petition committee.

Australia’s Soft Plastics Taskforce has been under pressure to fill the vacuum left by the demise of REDcycle. But this time the small trial announced for Melbourne has the potential to succeed. Anya Phelan, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Denialism highest in central and southern US, with Republican voters less likely to believe in climate science

Nearly 15% of Americans don’t believe climate change is real, a new study out of the University of Michigan reveals – shedding light on the highly polarized attitude toward global warming.

Additionally, denialism is highest in the central and southern US, with Republican voters found less likely to believe in climate science.

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The current wave of protests endangers environmental progress. But imaginative politics can get the green deal back on track

Another day, another tractor blockade. Earlier this week, all economic activity at the Belgian port of Antwerp ground to a halt as hundreds of farmers prevented access to freight. In Spain, tractors blocked motorways near Seville and Granada, and in Catalonia. As a rolling wave of rural discontent has made itself felt across Europe since the start of the year, only four EU member states have remained unaffected.

Numerically, farmers account for only 4% of Europe’s working population. But as Europe’s political leaders are belatedly coming to realise, the burgeoning crisis has outsize implications. A perfect storm of factors – including rising energy costs, competition from lightly regulated foreign imports and supermarket profit-gouging – have driven angry farmers off the land and on to the streets of capitals. But in disputes that touch on some of the faultlines of contemporary culture wars, there is a growing danger that the EU’s green deal takes the rap for a crisis incubated elsewhere.

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The European Commission is "not too worried" about the tumbling price of carbon allowances, Kurt Vandenberghe, director-general of DG CLIMA, told a virtual event on Wednesday.

A New Mexico bill to implement a clean fuel standard by mandating a reduction in transportation fuel carbon intensity (CI) passed the legislature on Tuesday and now awaits approval by the governor.

Members of the joint European Parliament committees for the Internal Market and for the Environment adopted on Wednesday new rules regulating the use of carbon credits by EU companies.

A Montreal-based carbon removal project developer announced partnering with another European direct air capture (DAC) company on Wednesday, to pilot new carbon removals technology in Canada.

Reaching net zero emissions by 2050 means that no new unabated coal plants should be built and no new long lead-time conventional oil and gas projects are needed, the International Energy Agency’s 31 member countries said on Wednesday.

‘We need to respond now,’ says author of study that says crucial forest has already passed safe boundary and needs restoration

Up to half of the Amazon rainforest could hit a tipping point by 2050 as a result of water stress, land clearance and climate disruption, a study has shown.

The paper, which is the most comprehensive to date in its analysis of the compounding impacts of local human activity and the global climate crisis, warned that the forest had already passed a safe boundary and urged remedial action to restore degraded areas and improve the resilience of the ecosystem.

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As much as 75% of habitats in the Americas are under protected, falling below the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) target of 30% preservation due to monitoring flaws, researchers have found.