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Rollout of pylons across countryside is cheaper and quicker way to integrate renewable electricity, says energy tsar

The government has ruled out burying electricity cables underground as part of its energy strategy, which will involve the unrolling of millions of pylons across the British countryside, Ed Miliband’s clean energy tsar has said.

Chris Stark, the former leader of the Climate Change Committee, now heads the government’s “mission control” department for decarbonising the grid by boosting renewable energy and building connections across the country.

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"From here Earth sure looks like a perfect world," said the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk

Clean cooking ITMO credits from a project in Malawi were bought on a trading platform this week and retired the same day, underlining demand for the burgeoning sovereign carbon market.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) will launch a call for grant proposals in 2025 in several regions after receiving €4 million from the EU, in an outreach that will complement its work on ‘data cubes’, an executive has said.

A fintech startup focused on creating financial instruments tied to voluntary carbon credits has announced a partnership with a global blockchain-based platform for buying, selling, and retiring units.

Innovations in battery manufacturing, such as use of a ‘dry process’ to make electrodes, will be key to reducing cost and lowering the environmental footprint of producing lithium-ion batteries to be in line with the EU’s new Batteries Regulation, say experts.

Australia’s Labor government has introduced its Guarantee of Origin bill to parliament as part of the Future Made in Australia (FMIA) policy that was recommended by a senate committee last week.

The world is still on track to be awash with oil by the end of the decade after global demand growth decelerated in the first half of 2024 to the lowest rate since 2020, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported on Thursday.

A Chicago-headquartered financial services firm has launched a blockchain carbon credit platform for institutional buyers, it announced on Thursday.

A Tanzania-based developer has partnered with CreditNature to launch a biodiversity credit pilot in the Kilimanjaro region by the end of November, Carbon Pulse has learned.

European carbon allowance prices fell back in line with weaker energy markets on Thursday morning, as EUAs continued to fluctuate in their recent options-driven €2 range near a five-month low, with traders seeing little incentive for levels to break out.

A senior EU negotiatior on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement has warned against taking a short-term approach to developing the UN markets, saying this could damaging confidence in carbon pricing as a credible solution to tackle climate change.

Language in Senate defense bill is probably first step to shield widely used toxic F-gases from regulation

US lawmakers and the military are pushing for a new definition of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that would exclude a subclass of toxic compounds increasingly used across the economy and considered to be potent greenhouse gases.

Language included in the defense bill by the Senate armed services committee asks the military to detail how it uses fluorinated gases, or F-gases, stating that the committee is “interested in learning more about how the [department of defense] may or may not be impacted by the definition” of PFAS.

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A Singapore-headquartered biochar company and a Japanese developer specialising in methane reduction projects have been awarded a grant to reduce emissions from rice fields in the Philippines, they said in a joint statement.

A bill to certify renewable electricity and the carbon footprint of the emerging hydrogen industry has been referred for a Senate inquiry.

The post Guarantee of Origin: Move to prove credentials of green goods, set up REGO for renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The application of carbon pricing in the power sector will be crucial to meeting climate goals set under the Paris Agreement, however, approaches must be altered to the needs of low- and middle-income countries and the challenges they face, said World Bank’s latest report launched Thursday.

Demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Europe fell 20% year-on-year in the first half of 2024, after gas consumption dropped to a 10-year low last year, analysts said this week, suggesting the continent’s thirst for the fuel may have already peaked.

Nearly 40% of the Amazon rainforest areas considered crucial for addressing the climate crisis still lack proper legal protection, with approximately 10.9 million hectares at potential risk, said a report released Thursday.

A group of Korean researchers has introduced a low-carbon catalyst technology for producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) amid growing domestic interest in the development of the eco-friendly fuel. 

An Edinburgh-based company has closed a £1 million pre-seed funding round for its ultra-high temperature thermal energy storage system aimed at decarbonising industrial heat, it announced on Thursday.