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UK provider backed by Australia's Quinbrook chosen to provide optimisation services to the biggest battery project in the ACT.

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An unreformed EPBC is crippling renewables investment, but there are some easy fixed, big investors say.

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Washington’s Q4 current vintage auction defied market expectations, clearing nearly 30% below the 2024 Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) Tier 1 trigger price.

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The US announced grants totalling $54.3 million spread between four organisations to spur new coastal services and technologies, including carbon management.

A US-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) project developer on Wednesday announced an offering of forward offtake agreements for an industrial carbon storage hub estimated to generate 400,000 offsets annually.

Lawmakers from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) have called on the EU to find ways of avoiding fines for carmakers that fail to meet their CO2 reduction targets in 2025, saying “a realistic approach” is needed on EU climate goals.

A carbon insurance specialist company is now offering risk monitoring services across the full carbon lifecycle, it announced on Wednesday.

From farm workers in Brazil to India and the US midwest, shifting to a schedule where it’s dark out could mean dangerous conditions and less food

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For years, Josana Pinto da Costa ventured out every morning on to the waterways lining Óbidos, Brazil, in a small fishing boat. Gliding over the murky, churning currents of the Amazon River basin, her flat nets brought in writhing hauls.

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Consensus there will be sharp tightening in the EU ETS market in 2026 could be shocked when new free allocation numbers are published by the EU Commission, an investment bank has warned.

An advance market commitment for nature-based carbon removal, made up of a group of large technology companies, has launched its first request for proposals including methodology-related critera, as it aims to contract up to 20 million credits by 2030.

The UK’s publicly-owned Great British Energy entity needs to narrow down its role in helping the country decarbonise, to avoid spinning too many plates and losing public support if it fails to produce compelling outcomes, industry experts said on Wednesday.

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.