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After six years of assessment and hundreds of appeals against it, a massive gas project has been given state environmental approval to operate until 2070.

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Brazil’s National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE), an advisory body to the president, this week approved resolutions in support of targets for biofuels-based greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and to encourage the use of residual oils and fats in biofuels, according to local media reports.

"Bring communities on the journey:" CEC report details how community engagement on renewables is being done and what best practice looks like.

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Two of Queensland's biggest airports will switch to 100 per cent renewable energy at the beginning of 2025 as part of a seven power purchase agreement.

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The state of Yucatan in Mexico will soon decree a jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) strategy and has published a concept note on the ART TREES registry for J-REDD projects, anticipating 2.4 million credits over a five-year crediting period.

Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the NGO Conservation International Brazil have launched the Forest for Well-Being call for proposals, featuring funding of up to R$23 million ($3.8 mln).

Local officials in a California county unanimously voted to withdraw an environmental review exemption for a hydrogen plant in the Central Valley on Tuesday after the developer abandoned the project in the face of local pushback and a legal challenge.

Supply of Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs) from coal mines might prove an obstacle for the expected price hike in Australia's main carbon units, analysts said Thursday.

A Swiss-based startup has secured €1.5 million in seed funding to advance its integrated hardware-software platform designed to facilitate compliance with the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

A Canadian biochar developer is advancing plans to build its second commercial facility in Northwest Arkansas after signing a non-binding offtake agreement with a biochar buyer, the startup said Wednesday.

A new DNA analysis has shown that the arrival of modern humans from Africa was far from smooth.

Let’s cast the holly, snowmen and reindeer aside to decorate our homes with Aussie Christmas crafts instead. How about Christmas beetle baubles, paper parrots and ornamental echidnas? Caitlyn Forster, Associate Lecturer, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Laura Nicole Driessen, Postdoctoral researcher in radio astronomy, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Canada’s 2035 emissions target motions for reductions of 45-50% below its 2005 baseline, naming international mitigation efforts, such as the trade of credits under Article 6, as priority areas of climate policy in the next decade.

The skeletons - two Allosaurus and one Stegosaurus - date back approximately 150 million years.

An enhanced rock weathering startup has raised nearly $60 million and secured around 300,000 tonnes in advanced purchase agreements to scale its carbon removal solution.

The current EU ETS price signal will take too long to fully decarbonise the economy unless elements that soften the mechanism are phased out and liquidity is increased, a report by a Brussels-based think tank said on Thursday.

Brazil’s long-awaited emissions trading system (SBCE) legislation has been sanctioned by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, appearing in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) on Thursday.

International carbon standard Verra has fallen foul of the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) rules in investigating human rights abuse claims levelled at a REDD+ project, a non-profit has claimed Thursday, lodging a formal complaint.

A set of pay-to-access resources on biodiversity credit metrics was launched on Thursday by analysis website Bloom Labs and consultancy the Biodiversity Footprint Intelligence Company (BioInt).

Indonesia has significant opportunities to generate millions of carbon credits each year, but unclear regulations around international carbon trading and low domestic demand are among the major issues preventing the country from having a vibrant market, according to a report released Thursday.