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British Columbia’s environment ministry released a discussion paper on Tuesday, seeking input on plans to reduce "prohibitively long" monitoring and maintenance requirements within the state’s carbon capture and sequestration offset protocol (CCSP) currently under development.

The UK government said it is "ripping up archaic planning rules" and saying no to complaining local residents to allow small modular reactors (SMR) to be built for the first time, in a bid to keep the country on track for net zero with nuclear power.

Prime minister vows to ‘push past nimbyism’ and calls on tech firms to help build small modular reactors to power AI datacentres

Keir Starmer will unveil plans for a historic expansion in nuclear power across England and Wales, pledging to use Labour’s large majority to make new sites across the country available for new power stations.

The announcement follows the prime minister’s call for tech companies to work alongside the government to build small modular reactors (SMRs) to power energy intensive AI datacentres across Britain.

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The UK’s food supply has been threatened by recent events, such as the war in Ukraine and the Covid-19 pandemic

Urgent action is needed to secure the UK’s food supply in the face of climate change-induced extreme weather, the imposition of tariffs and global insecurity, a report has warned.

Days after the US president, Donald Trump, warned Europe would be next for tariffs on trade after he imposed tax levies on Canada, China and Mexico, the report said the UK’s post-second world war food system was no longer fit for purpose, and the country’s food security was in a precarious state.

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A new study counters the hypothesis that farmers can increase carbon storage in their fields by rotating crops and fertiliser, with a trade-off of potential nitrogen benefits.

A US district court on Monday dismissed two sets of claims made by business groups in their ongoing challenge against California climate disclosure rules.

Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) off of Washington’s coast must ensure compliance with multiple levels of regulation, researchers found, but the state has taken steps to streamline the process that could support development of CO2 removal (CDR) projects.

For those lucky enough to have a place to return to in Altadena, going home meant dealing with unfinished chores left behind when the Eaton fire forced them to evacuate. For Samy Arbid, who had moved into a property just a block from the fire line in November, there was a different kind of challenge: a 525lb (240kg) black bear. It had moved into the crawl space under the house before the fire and was still sheltering there when Arbid and his wife returned. The California wildfire department stepped in to help, luring the bear out with treats after deciding it was too big to tranquillise. The bear's new home is much more appropriate: the Angeles national forest

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Italian and Japanese joint venture snaps up a portfolio of wind, solar and battery assets put on the block by Australian super funds and investors.

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A new study of water quality in Australian rivers reveals surprising changes since the turn of the century: good for the Murray-Darling Basin but bad for the reef. Anna Lintern, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, specialising in water quality, Monash University Danlu Guo, Senior lecturer of Environmental Engineering, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The former vice-chair of the UN’s Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) has moved to a new role at financial services provider and commodities trader.

The new Belgian government intends to repeal a nuclear phaseout initiated over 20 years ago and build new reactors instead, with plans to also promote heat pumps and solar PV, while slowing the transition to electric vehicles in company car fleets.

A carbon project implementer seeking to partner with developers in Brazil will next week launch a call to identify large-scale afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) initiatives, estimating that this first round could identify around 200,000 hectares for activities.

A much-anticipated EU regulatory simplification package, set to be unveiled on Feb. 26, is raising alarm bells among sustainable finance advocates who worry it may open the door to deregulation.

The market for durable CO2 removals (CDR) may see supplier consolidation, bankruptcies, prematurely price-based competition, and even oversupply as few new purchasers enter the market and investments decline, according to a report published Wednesday.

Carbon capture and storage should play a major role in the EU Clean Industrial Deal, according to a letter sent by experts to the European Commission on Wednesday.

The agricultural industry has destroyed biodiversity over an area of 55 million square kilometres across its supply chain, a report by CDC Biodiversite has estimated.

The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) has lost one of its key backers after a three-year incubation grant provided by Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion philanthropic fund expired at the end of last year, the standard setter confirmed to Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

A group of global NGOs has included funding biodiversity credits among the steps that the EU Commission should take to mobilise financing under the bloc's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.

Electrification in the chemical sector can be doubled or even quadrupled depending on the pathways, and up to 90% of current processes could be connected to clean power sources to decarbonise, according to the European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC), a trade association.