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The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) increased its yearly allocation of no-cost allowances to electrical utilities under the state’s cap-and-trade programme by as much as 23% through 2026, as seen in its revised mid-year figures released Tuesday.

Researchers have announced what they call an "important milestone" in the development of direct air capture (DAC) technology, operating their energy-efficient CO2 absorption system for 10,000 hours.

The surplus of allowances and offsets in the linked California-Quebec carbon market came closer to reaching 400 mln during the third quarter, while entities shifted more units into compliance accounts, according to data published Wednesday.

It’s hard to overstate just how exceptionally high global temperatures are now, but we have the technology to avert disaster

“Absolutely gobsmackingly bananas” is not standard scientific language, but these are not standard times, scientifically.

New data shows average global temperatures in September were not just the hottest ever recorded, but 0.5C above the previous record for the month. They were about 1.8C above temperatures in pre-industrial times, before humans started pumping vast amounts of heat-trapping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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The Biden Administration’s signature climate legislation is unleashing a wave of clean energy investment, along with some opportunities and risks for countries like Australia. Alan Finkel, Chair of ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Biotechnology, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

One night, someone cut down a tree. It wasn’t just any tree. The loss of the Sycamore Gap tree sent a nation into grief. But why? Rebecca Banham, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Northeast US will face mild temperatures this winter, lessening heating demand in the RGGI cap-and-trade programme region, a weather forecasting service said Wednesday.

While the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) set policy and funding precedence for US decarbonisation, additional measures are necessary across three domains to cut GHG emissions by more than 40% by 2030 and nearly 90% by 2050 relative to 2005 levels, a report said Wednesday.

Statement at UN human rights council voices ‘disappointment’ after Abu Dhabi refuses to change restrictive laws

The UK has asked the United Arab Emirates, one of its closest Gulf allies, to explain how it will guarantee free speech around the UN Cop28 climate summit in Dubai after the country refused to change its restrictive laws on free speech.

The refusal came after a four-yearly UN review of the UAE’s human rights record.

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Poland’s deputy energy minister said Wednesday that his country would support including carbon removals in the EU ETS before 2030 while a campaign group opposed such a move, while the minister kept his cards close to his chest when pressed on coal phaseout details.

UK-headquartered conservation company Environment Bank is marketing voluntary biodiversity credits through a “biodiversity equity shares” system to encourage demand, an executive has said.

A new initiative on nature stewardship will initially focus on forests and land degradation and aims to ramp up pressure on companies to disclose nature-related risks and engage politically.

The German government approved on Wednesday a temporary extension of the country's power generation supply reserve, allowing lignite plants to reopen as a precautionary instrument for demand peaks for the coming winter, though underlined that the nation's 2030 coal phaseout target remains in play.

At first an oddity roaming in an otherwise desperately ordinary suburb, the curious creature continues to survive – alone and silent

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For two months, we called it Strange Bird.

We had moved into a new home in the summer. A tightly packed street in Sydney’s inner west, where gardens are small, nature strips absent and the cement footpath is broken up by fledgling trees around which residents plant small squares of flowers and creepers. It was here, almost immediately, that we encountered a lone, large bird.

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Francis also defends climate protesters and calls on governments to make Cop28 in Dubai a turning point

Pope Francis has said the rich world must make profound changes to tackle the climate crisis, while defending climate protesters and urging governments to make the forthcoming Cop28 climate summit a turning point.

He called for “a decisive acceleration of energy transition” from fossil fuels to renewables, but cautioned against relying on new technology such as carbon capture and storage, which he said was “like pushing a snowball down a hill”.

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A UK-headquartered registry for long-duration CO2 removal (CDR) has launched its certification standard which it says is the most stringent in the world and where the results are open to public scrutiny.

EUA futures ticked up as they searched for direction around the €80/t mark on Wednesday morning, while exchange data showed investment funds trimmed their net short position by 13% and fundamentals continued to filter in bearish short and mid-term signals to the market.

Protection plan for Doñana Natural Space hailed by environmentalists as ‘step in the right direction’

A controversial plan that would have placed one of Europe’s most important and threatened wetlands in even greater jeopardy has been paused after an unexpected agreement was reached between Spain’s caretaker government and the regional authorities in Andalucía.

Water supplies to the Doñana national park in western Andalucía – whose marshes, forests and dunes extend across almost 130,000 hectares (320,000 acres) and include a Unesco-listed national park – have declined drastically over the past 30 years because of climate breakdown, farming, mining pollution and marsh drainage.

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The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has set out a transboundary action plan to address invasive alien species across the region, however, no detail was provided on how it would be financed or the delivery partners that would lead its components.

The nanoparticles create more precise colours and are used in TV screens as well as medical imaging.