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Many of the national biodiversity plans that have been submitted in time for COP16 do not go far enough, WWF said on Monday following the launch of a tracker tool.

The Malaysian Ministry of National Resources and Environmental Sustainability (NRES) on Monday announced an updated climate change policy, which includes a new framework for the country’s transition towards a low-carbon economy.

Industrial emission levels in the EU are plunging to new lows in 2024 as weak output has continued to reduce demand for EUAs in a major way more than two years after the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

European carbon allowance prices began the week on a lacklustre note, giving up a large portion of Friday afternoon's gains even as natural gas posted a fourth day of gains and the annual permit compliance cycle came to an end.

The European Commission launched a public consultation Friday on the methodology to calculate the greenhouse gas savings obtained from low-carbon fuels such as hydrogen, taking into account a range of factors such as the carbon intensity of a country’s electricity grid.

A German non-profit and a Swiss foundation have purchased the first batch of nature units generated from a conservation project in Malawi.

A Tokyo-based microalgae solution provider has teamed up with an Australian company to promote seaweed-added feed additives, in the hope of decarbonising Japan's livestock sector.

The UK's last coal power station, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, is due to end operations on Monday.

Local communities are getting behind what is expected to be Queensland’s first Renewable Energy Zone (REZ), following over 1,000 in-depth conversations centred on delivering better local outcomes.

The post Local communities back state’s first renewable energy zone to offer future beyond coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Energy providers to aim for their highest share of renewables to meet green expectations suitable for a town that is the gateway to a world heritage site.

The post Exmouth, gateway to Ningaloo, to go 80 per cent renewables with help of solar and battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The decision comes after a ProPublica and Guardian investigation revealed that the EPA had found that one of the fuels had a huge cancer risk

• This article is co-published with ProPublica, a non-profit newsroom that investigates abuses of power

The US Environmental Protection Agency is planning to withdraw and reconsider its approval for Chevron to produce 18 plastic-based fuels, including some that an internal agency assessment found are highly likely to cause cancer.

In a recent court filing, the federal agency said it “has substantial concerns” that the approval order “may have been made in error”. The EPA gave a Chevron refinery in Mississippi the green light to make the chemicals in 2022 under a “climate-friendly” initiative intended to boost alternatives to petroleum, as ProPublica and the Guardian reported last year.

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Azerbaijan has officially submitted a bid to host the COP17 UN biodiversity summit, as the country prepares for the COP29 climate conference in Baku later this year, the government announced on Monday.

The decarbonisation progress of China's steel industry in the coming few years will likely hinge on recent regulatory developments, including the expansion of the national carbon market, according to experts.

The aluminium industry is grappling with implementation headaches linked to the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) just as Europe is being flooded by cheap aluminium imports from China, amid general indifference from EU trade authorities, the sector’s business association told Carbon Pulse in an interview.

Not enough companies linked to the agricultural supply chain have board-level expertise in biodiversity, despite the surge in nature commitments, according to an executive at Morningstar Sustainalytics.

GreenForms Trading is excited to announce its relaunch with renewed backing from premier Australian Green-Tech-Tailor, Next Green Group.

The post GreenForms Trading relaunches with enhanced support from Next Green Group appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Opportunities for closer cooperation on natural capital, decarbonisation, and carbon markets between Australia and Brazil could be on the horizon if the latter is successful at securing its bid to host COP31 in 2026, panellists told an event Friday.

Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system. Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Lance M Leslie, Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New figures show nearly 80% of businesses in some parts of England have been denied support

Ministers are being urged to overhaul the “nightmare” compensation scheme for flood victims after it emerged that nearly 80% of businesses in some parts of England had been denied support.

After heavy downpours caused chaos across much of England and Wales this week, new figures laid bare the “opaque” and inconsistent level of help available to those whose properties lay in ruin.

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Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report

More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”.

The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock.

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