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Vanuatu leads the charge of several nations arguing developed nations have a legal responsibility beyond non-binding promises

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Australia has been accused of undermining its Pacific neighbours in a landmark international legal case after it argued that high-emitting countries are not obliged to act on the climate crisis beyond their non-binding commitments to the 2015 Paris agreement.

In the case before the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ), Vanuatu is leading an argument brought by several Pacific nations and developing states – including Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu – that developed countries have a legal responsibility beyond existing UN frameworks. The case does not specify the names of countries that would fall under the definition of high emitters.

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The European Commission wants to change wolves' protected status, allowing nations to cull them.

As data centres and artificial intelligence drives electricity demand across the US, permitting wait times for transmission lines will need to be dramatically sped up in a number of ways, panellists said Monday, from limiting lawsuits against transmission projects to centralizing permitting authority in the federal government.

Most of the world's largest insurers and pension funds -- representing over $17 trillion in assets -- fail to use their significant influence to advocate for climate policy in line with science-based pathways to net zero, according to new analysis by a non-profit.

Canada proposed changes to carbon intensity (CI) calculations of certain fuels eligible for credit generation under the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) on Friday.

Brazil's national development bank announced Friday that a European nation has donated up to $21.1 million to the Amazon Fund, aiming to help combat deforestation and promote sustainable development.

Construction has been completed on the second biggest battery in Victoria, which will be the second big battery in Australia contracted to Big Oil company Shell.

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Chevron's Gorgon CCS project - the flagship for the technology in Australia - has had its worst year on record, collecting less than one third of the CO2 it is supposed to.

The post Expensive failure: Flagship Gorgon CCS collects less CO2 in worst year appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Sydney-based pioneer of no-cost solar and battery service closes $4.28 million funding round towards plans to deploy solar and battery systems to 2,000 homes a month.

The post “No-cost” home solar and battery start-up raises funds to target 2,000 homes a month appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Rather than relying on a big solar button, rapid rule changes could help AEMO manage minimum load while also getting the most out of rooftop solar for consumers.

The post How to make the rooftop solar emergency backstop work for consumers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chinese steelmakers need stronger demand signals, such as a much larger volume of purchase commitments, to spur investment in technologies to make green steel at scale, according to a report released Tuesday.

A North Carolina-based research non-profit is set to launch a carbon credit project in Ethiopia with a US development agency, aiming to expand its approach for reducing enteric methane emissions from small farmers' livestock in the developing world, representatives of the organisation told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of COP29.

Instead of waiting years for a handful of billion-dollar projects, tens of thousands of electricians can rewire hundreds of thousands of households. It is lower risk and faster than boondoggles like Snowy 2.0. 

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Research has found people see backyard chickens as pets – but wouldn’t take them to the vet. It raises important questions about how we relate to the non-human world. Emily A. Buddle, Research Fellow in Humanities, University of Adelaide Rachel A. Ankeny, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Wageningen University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Oil-rich nations and the petrochemical industry put up the strongest opposition to a pact. Steve Fletcher, Professor of Ocean Policy and Economy, University of Portsmouth Samuel Winton, Postgraduate Researcher, University of Portsmouth Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Retirements in the Verra voluntary carbon registry surged to just over 7 million last week, as the market started to show some life after having failed to ignite after the COP climate talks last month.

New GCSE was announced under previous government in 2022 but now ‘sitting in limbo’, says Mary Colwell, one of its architects

The natural history GCSE has been shelved because it is “seen as a Conservative party initiative”, one of the architects of the proposed new qualification has said.

The conservationist and campaigner Mary Colwell told the Guardian she was “hugely frustrated” with the halt to the proposed new GCSE, which had been announced in 2022 and was supposed to be taught in schools by 2025.

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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued a A$700-million ($451 mln) so-called green kangaroo bond in the Australian market to help close the biodiversity funding gap in emerging markets, it announced Monday.

A “first-of-its-kind” guide to try to galvanise action from insurers to engage with a nature-positive future, enabling investments in ecosystems and innovative biodiversity-linked products, was published Monday by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

Carbon credit rating provider BeZero has introduced standardised datasets with technical carbon data to simplify project analysis, the London-based agency announced on Monday.