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In regulating sulphur emissions from ships, the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) 2020 regulations may have inadvertently contributed to global warming, according to research released this week.

Big business in the UK plans to buy much higher volumes of carbon credits than current levels to meet sustainability targets, finds a new survey.

District councils in low-lying areas say they have cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to fund pumping stations

The costs of preventing major floods caused by extreme weather and excessive rainfall have fuelled a growing financial crisis among district councils in low-lying areas of England, ministers have been warned.

Districts in the east of the country say they are having to cut day-to-day services such as bin collections to meet dramatic and unsustainable rises in payments levied to fund pumping stations used to protect communities from flooding.

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Current climate standards don't go far enough to incentivise the innovations needed to deliver on net zero, and should be expanded to include a company's broader influence on the planet, according to a new paper.

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the Moon setting into streams of aurora.

A timelapse captured from the International Space Station shows the moon setting into streams of aurora.

The scale of the challenge of hitting Australia’s renewable energy target points to the need for a more standardised and inclusive approach to sharing the benefits than we have seen so far. Simon Wright, Senior Research Fellow, Energy & Circularity, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Several NGOs are plotting legal action against a new drilling permit for gas extraction off the coast of Germany, they announced Wednesday.

A voluntary carbon standard focused on durable carbon removals is consulting on two new modules concerning CO2 storage via mineralisation.

Ukraine will need an estimated $20 billion of investments to advance its renewable energy sector under a plan to increase its share in the country's energy mix to 27% by 2030, according to a government announcement this week.

WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s party

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If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.

That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.

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Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.

Voluntary carbon standard Verra will implement a new fee for projects under its consolidated VM0048 REDD methodology, it announced Wednesday.

Poland is starting a nearly €5 billion program funded by the European Union's recovery funds, to offer loans to developers of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, the state assets ministry and national development bank BGK announced on Tuesday. 

Major banks are far off track in meeting their climate targets and pledges are often less ambitious than they seem at face value, according to analysis published Wednesday.

A government report, obtained by a reporter from Australia's national broadcaster, found the Northern Territory government believes the gas industry will drive up its emissions by 100% even under a conservative scenario.

The European Commission has approved a Dutch plan to provide €700 million of state aid to compensate farmers for voluntarily closing their livestock farming sites to help cut nitrogen emissions, it announced on Wednesday.

Cambridge researchers are leveraging the capabilities of drones, lasers, and AI to try to transform the speed and accuracy of assessing biodiversity and carbon in forests.

Carbon ratings agency BeZero Carbon has this Tuesday issued its highest-ever rating for the first publicly evaluated direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS) project.