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Australia could support up to five giga-factories, just for domestic energy storage and commercial electric vehicles.

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Countries that set climate targets that depend heavily on the removal of carbon dioxide could be breaking international law given both the uncertainties when it comes to the technology and the potential detraction from making cuts to emissions, according to new research.

A group of prominent environmental scientists devised this list of 5 things we must see in Australia’s new national environmental laws, if we are to avoid calamity and hasten recovery. Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Jack Pascoe, Research fellow, The University of Melbourne Kirsty Howey, Charles Darwin University Terry Hughes, Distinguished Professor, James Cook University Yung En Chee, Senior Research Fellow, Environmental Science, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The EU has provisionally agreed to update its environmental crimes and sanctions rules, with Parliament and Council negotiators clinching a deal to introduce an updated list of offences and related sanctions.

ICAO’s slow burn in announcing the standard bodies eligible for the next phase of its CORSIA aviation offsetting mechanism may have opened the door for exchange ICE to steal a march in the race to become the dominant hedging instrument provider for correspondingly adjusted carbon credits.

Environmental standard-setter Verra is inviting proposals for a consultant to develop two "pioneering" greenhouse gas accounting methodologies focused on sustainable food systems.

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EU co-legislators reached a provisional deal on Thursday on a bill to enhance the transparency of the bloc's rapidly decarbonising energy market and met for a second time to talk about a related bill for shielding citizens from higher energy prices.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) on Wednesday granted nearly $4.3 million to the Virginia Department of Energy to assess the site feasibility and commercial viability of a CO2 storage hub project in a local county.

A Montreal-based carbon removals developer has announced a Series A funding round of C$75 million ($54.5 mln) to advance its goal of a billion tonne-scale project in Canada.

The EU will extend for 10 years authorisation for the use of glyphosate, the European Commission said on Thursday, exercising its default power after member states failed to agree.

The UN body responsible for guiding which projects may be credited under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement has unanimously agreed to its methodology recommendations after two years of intense discussion, just in time to forward its guidance document to country negotiators at COP28.

A Washington-based company reducing the carbon intensity of feed, fibers, fuel, and fertiliser by converting recycled CO2 has received $5 million in seed funding from four investors, it announced on Thursday.

A company working in precision agriculture helped avoid the loss of 1,216 species worldwide throughout 2022, US-headquartered asset manager Federated Hermes has suggested.

NGOs have said they have “serious concerns” with a text being considered for adoption by member states on the bloc's new legislation aiming to define how to certify carbon removals, they said in a letter published on Thursday.

Some 143 fossil fuel and chemical industry "lobbyists" have registered to attend the global plastic treaty negotiations in Kenya, according to a non-profit concerned that the delegates will exert an undue influence upon the proceedings and force lower ambition.

Ukraine’s deputy energy minister said on Thursday that the country’s electricity grid may need additional inputs from the EU this winter to prevent blackouts, adding that the embattled nation's power sector is shaping up in the hope of EU accession.

Nine women used hammers and chisels to shatter building’s windows in April 2021 as part of Extinction Rebellion protest

Nine climate protesters have been cleared by a jury of causing £500,000 worth of criminal damage to the windows at the headquarters of HSBC bank in London.

The women, who were all taking action as members of Extinction Rebellion, sang and chanted as they shattered the custom-made glass windows with hammers and chisels at about 7am on 22 April 2021.

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The European Commission will soon present a communication on how to improve energy grids in Europe that will also cover how important CCS technology has become, the executive's Green Deal boss Maros Sefcovic said on Thursday.

Two large corporate carbon credit buyers expressed a broadly positive outlook for the development of jurisdictional REDD+ in spite of "a difficult year" for the forestry sector, in a webinar on Thursday, urging patience from the market.