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The international carbon standard released Wednesday provisional versions of allocated deforestation risks maps for three Brazilian states within recently revamped REDD methodologies under its Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).

Fewer cows on the farm and a broader range of farming practices, including involvement in the emerging alternative proteins industry, could help New Zealand’s dairy sector remain viable. Milena Bojovic, PhD Candidate, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Biden administration released guidance Tuesday to encourage policies that reduce imports of commodities and products driving illegal deforestation.

The US EPA granted California authority on Wednesday to adopt the state’s Advanced Clean Cars II regulations for light-duty vehicles, effectively banning the sale of new gasoline vehicles by 2035, amid threats of repeal under the forthcoming Trump administration.

New rule change is progress for Australian consumers seeking to get the most out of investments in rooftop solar, batteries and efficient electric appliances. But experts warn that the devil is in the detail.

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Under a federal mandate to acquire 100% zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) by 2035, 11 US government agencies have not met their interim targets, a watchdog study published Tuesday said, with future prospects largely outside of the agencies' control.

Genome analysis of New Zealand’s forest parrot kākā has so far found no genetic differences between its two subspecies. This could allow for more relocations of birds between populations. Michael Knapp, Associate Professor in Biological Anthropology, University of Otago Denise Martini, Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics, University of Verona Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Our bodies have hard limits as to how much heat and humidity we can tolerate. Lethal humid heat is a growing threat Emma Ramsay, Research Affiliate in Climate Adaptation, Monash University Shanta Barley, Adjunct Lecturer in Ecology, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US DOE's loan office should suspend all loan and loan guarantee packages until it can ensure that its contracts are in compliance with conflict-of-interest regulations, a report published Tuesday by the agency's watchdog said.

Bill Gates’s clean tech venture fund has stumped up $40 million to invest in a carbon removal startup aiming to create a Canadian testing ground for multiple direct air capture (DAC) technologies, the firms said on Wednesday.

A judge in the San Martin region of Peru has ruled against several government agencies and an NGO developer that manages one of the world’s biggest historical issuers of REDD credits, in favour of Indigenous peoples, ordering the state to apply land titles to ancestral lands, nullify some forest concessions, and conduct community consultations with benefit-sharing.

Agreement on a 2040 climate target at EU level must be preceded by an “action plan” outlining the means of achieving the objective, including the principle of technology neutrality to make room for nuclear power alongside renewables, French energy minister Agnes Pannier-Runacher said on Tuesday.

The European Commission gave France the go-ahead on Wednesday to disburse €3 billion of state aid in support of decarbonisation efforts from industries covered by the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

The voluntary biodiversity credit scheme announced in France could incentivise offsetting over the reduction and avoidance of impacts on nature, as the underlying rules have raised serious doubts over their effectiveness in recent years, a biodiversity consultant has told Carbon Pulse.

Futures for Phase 1 of CORSIA, the UN's international aviation offsetting scheme, have jumped higher in the wake of reported results from a credit auction coming to light this week.

Bringing the cement sector into China’s emissions trading scheme will see the total amount of CO2 regulated by the market grow by over a billion tonnes of CO2, but only lead to a minor increase in emissions, analysts have predicted.

Germany’s energy sector CO2 emissions fell to 188 million tonnes in 2024, a 9% decrease from 2023 and 60% below 1990 levels, according to a new report released on Wednesday.

A soon-to-be-released method has proven effective in detecting hundreds of species in the Amazon combining AI and remote devices, with researchers planning to implement it globally in a way that could support science-based nature markets, the project leader told Carbon Pulse.

Gone are the pleasures of licking the foil cover on yoghurts and soft cheese. Plus no one consulted me about this dismal change to my home routines

All I want for Christmas is the return of yoghurt pot lids. And not just for me, for everyone. In this season of goodwill, I want everyone to get a share of the joy. The lids disappeared very suddenly, without so much as a goodbye. It didn’t seem right. And it wasn’t just yoghurt pots, either. Creams, buttermilk, cottage cheese, you name it, were suddenly minus their lids, hatless, naked.

For me, this was a blow. I’ve always taken my plastic pot management very seriously. I have strict rules. Not for me pulling back the foil cover, leaving it attached to the tub, and then replacing the lid on top of it. No, not neat. The foil would be removed completely, possibly licked, and discarded.

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A large private investment house is seeking investors for its €500 million nature-based solutions fund, which will finance carbon project development, and is on the cusp of finalising €50 mln from the European Investment Bank (EIB).