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Deep tracks gouged in the seafloor off the coast of Scotland could help us understand Antarctica today.

Discovery could provide valuable clues as to how the climate crisis might affect Antarctica, says study

Giant, flat-topped icebergs the size of the city of Cambridge drifted off the coast of Britain during the last ice age, according to a study that has uncovered evidence of their existence for the first time.

A series of distinctive, comb-like grooves found preserved in sediment near Aberdeen in Scotland were left behind by the underside of huge “tabular” icebergs that dragged across the North Sea floor between 18,000 and 20,000 years ago, the researchers said.

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Tighter regulation of biomass use will be needed in Europe if the EU starts incentivising bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BioCCS) on a large scale to meet its net zero emissions target, according to a Danish think tank.

China's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) will cover all GHG emissions from all economic sectors, and its actions to address climate change will not slow down despite changes in the global political environment, President Xi Jinping has said.

Japan’s work decarbonising its industry and driving the uptake of renewable energy and cleaner manufacturing is blighted by its lack of support for those already at the cleaner end of the bell curve, a think tank said this week.

A San Francisco-based carbon management firm on Thursday announced it has launched a new digital platform aimed at streamlining the purchase, evaluation, and management of carbon credits for corporate buyers.

Prospective US tariffs and Europe’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) are increasing pressure on Southeast Asian nations to fast-track carbon pricing policies, speakers said during a webinar Thursday.

The German government coalition deal, which includes provisions to allow the buying of international credits under Article 6 to meet the country's climate goals, could be a major step towards scaling demand in the Paris Agreement era, a carbon markets veteran told Carbon Pulse.

The horrifying planning bill, which rips up environmental protections, was drafted with CEOs in mind. We know because Keir Starmer told us

Those of us who try to defend wildlife are horribly familiar with bad laws. But we’ve never seen anything like this. The government’s planning and infrastructure bill is the worst assault on England’s ecosystems in living memory. It erases decades of environmental protections, including legislation we inherited from the EU, which even the Tories promised to uphold.

The rules defending wildlife and habitats from unscrupulous developers are weak enough already, which is partly why, as Labour reminded us in its manifesto, Britain is “one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world”. But this bill will make it much, much worse.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Ending Labor’s EV tax break would make it much harder to cut surging emissions in Australia’s transport sector. Anna Mortimore, Lecturer, Griffith Business School, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Polestar says Dutton’s move shows ‘a complete lack of understanding of the significant cost-of-living, climate and health benefits of EVs’

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Electric vehicles would cost more under a Coalition government, after Peter Dutton confirmed he would scrap a popular tax break for EV drivers in an apparent backflip that has caused confusion and anger among clean car advocates.

The initiative, which was introduced by the Albanese government in 2022, has meant if a person buys an EV priced under $91,387 through a novated lease program via their employer (when a lease is paid off through pre-taxed salary deductions) they do not have to pay fringe benefits tax (FBT) – even if the car is only for personal use.

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) set a new record for climate finance commitments in 2024, as it hones in on a goal for 50% of all capital commitments to be for climate action by 2030.

Environmental platform EcoRegistry on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with an Argentine province on launching a subnational carbon credit standard focused on reducing methane emissions.

A direct air capture (DAC) project developer has signed a deal to sell 13,400 carbon removal credits to a large shipping company.

A wrong call on wind output has left some of Australia's best wind projects stranded without a grid connection. Many say the error was avoidable, but is it reversible?

The post Major blooper on wind output has stranded some of Australia’s best projects with no grid access appeared first on RenewEconomy.

China stats for first three months of 2025 show it installed 9 GW of new thermal generation capacity, compared to 59.7 GW of new solar and 14.6 GW of new wind.

The post Meanwhile, in China, 60 GW of new solar capacity added in first quarter of 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The ANU's Jorrit Gosens on China's thirst for green steel and the opportunities for Australia. Plus: News of the week and stranded wind and solar projects.

The post Energy Insiders Podcast: China and green steel appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Plans for a solar farm and big battery sail through federal environmental approval process in less than two months, but could face rougher seas at the state level.

The post Solar and battery proposal sails through EPBC and into a storm of objections – some of them wild appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Chinese company says its robot solar mounting machine can install solar panels at three and five times faster than a team of humans, and slash construction times.

The post Chinese robot does job of three to four humans installing thousands of panels at Australian solar project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Colombia is not curating a positive list of project types that will be automatically eligible for Article 6 agreements, and will instead issue broader criteria with case-by-case evaluation, according to an official and an external consultant speaking at the Colombia Carbon Forum conference in Bogota on Wednesday.