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Thailand is launching a German-backed €118-million ($122.5 mln) initiative to promote 'climate-smart' rice farming, aiming to support more than 253,000 farmers and cut carbon emissions by 2.44 million tonnes of CO2e by 2028.

A bill looking to overhaul transportation choices for consumers and vehicle emissions standards was introduced in the US Senate earlier this week.

Alberta’s environment ministry discussed the incidence of “zero-emitting” facilities under its programme to address industrial GHG emissions, among a suite of other updates in an annual stakeholder workshop Friday.

A bipartisan, bicameral bill in the state legislature promoting sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production would prompt regulators to hit the brakes on the latest Washington Clean Fuel Standard (WCFS) rulemaking.

A bipartisan group of Washington legislators this month introduced a bill to direct the state’s Department of Energy (ECY) to establish reporting requirements for the sale of exempt fuels used for agricultural purposes under the Climate Commitment Act (CCA).

A mixture of legislative certainty and regulatory uncertainty drove investor sentiment across California Carbon Allowance (CCA), Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA), and Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LFS) futures and options holdings, latest figures from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

Canada’s provincial energy powerhouse is taking no chances on potential US energy tariffs with a new budget that leaves room for their implementation, though revenues from its carbon market are forecasted to take a roughly 50% hit.

California environmental groups are challenging a funding request from state regulator ARB that the agency says would be used to increase staffing and help establish the state’s carbon management deployment strategy.

Impending tariffs by President Donald Trump threaten to clamp the nation’s arterial energy relationship with Canada, potentially plunging the US’s closely tied Northeast energy markets into uncertainty and leaving the northern neighbour to calibrate its response. 

Embattled carbon project developer C-Quest Capital and its affiliated entities this week filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in a Delaware court, citing financial distress and insufficient capital to sustain operations.

Most of the objections to a solar and battery project in regional NSW came from people a long distance away. One even forget to change the name of the project he was opposing.

The post Long distance objectors pile in against small solar-battery project in regional NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Minnesota House of Representatives this month introduced a bill to repeal certain clean vehicle rules under the state's environmental regulations.

European climate policy advocates are calling on EU member states to implement environmental dividend schemes as a socially just way to distribute revenues from the bloc's Emissions Trading System (ETS), as experts point to significant shortcomings in Italy.

A Netherlands-based fund this week announced the formation of a green hydrogen blended finance fund, securing an initial €150 million from European donors.

A proposed avoided deforestation and new plantation project in Malaysia has come under fire from activists and Indigenous peoples for failing to gather free-prior and informed consent and encroaching on native customary rights (NCR).

Growing uncertainty around the participation of large aviation demand centres in CORSIA may leave the EU in a quandary over how to enforce sectoral decarbonisation to meet its own climate goals, new Carbon Pulse analysis has found.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in China and the US face governance challenges as regional interests, local protectionism, and fragmented regulations hinder CO2 transport and storage across domestic boundaries, a report released Friday has revealed.

The nuclear plan handily leapfrogs the next 10 years – when a Dutton government might actually hold office – a critical time for emissions reduction

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I don’t often agree with Matt Canavan on matters to do with global heating. But when the senator labelled the Coalition’s nuclear plan a “political fix” last year, I think he was speaking the truth.

For 15 gruelling years the Coalition has been trying to distract a voting public, ever more aware of the climate crisis, from its inability to get a credible climate and energy policy past the climate sceptics and do-nothing-much-to-reduce-emissions exponents in its own ranks (including the Queensland senator).

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The World Nature Photography awards have announced their winners for 2025. From white-cheeked terns to a blue-tailed damselfly peeking through a daisy, the photographs are a stark reminder of the beauty and chaos of the natural world. The top award went to Maruša Puhek’s image of two deers running through a Slovenian vineyard

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Chris Jones is behind change in law to release beavers in England after witnessing the incredible benefits on his land

• Beaver releases into wild to be allowed in England for first time in centuries

Chris Jones, a beef farmer, is very proud of his beavers. “They are just extraordinary,” he says.

Since releasing a couple into an enclosure on his Cornwall farm in 2017, he says they have saved it from drought, prevented flooding in the nearby village, boosted the local economy and even improved oyster beds in Falmouth Bay.

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