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A carbon insurance specialist company is now offering risk monitoring services across the full carbon lifecycle, it announced on Wednesday.

From farm workers in Brazil to India and the US midwest, shifting to a schedule where it’s dark out could mean dangerous conditions and less food

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with the Guardian.

For years, Josana Pinto da Costa ventured out every morning on to the waterways lining Óbidos, Brazil, in a small fishing boat. Gliding over the murky, churning currents of the Amazon River basin, her flat nets brought in writhing hauls.

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Consensus there will be sharp tightening in the EU ETS market in 2026 could be shocked when new free allocation numbers are published by the EU Commission, an investment bank has warned.

An advance market commitment for nature-based carbon removal, made up of a group of large technology companies, has launched its first request for proposals including methodology-related critera, as it aims to contract up to 20 million credits by 2030.

The UK’s publicly-owned Great British Energy entity needs to narrow down its role in helping the country decarbonise, to avoid spinning too many plates and losing public support if it fails to produce compelling outcomes, industry experts said on Wednesday.

Buyers club Frontier will offer grants to support the identification of reactive rock deposits suitable for carbon removal (CDR) projects.

An advisory body to the Hong Kong government has outlined the main steps needed to establish itself as a major carbon trading hub, focusing on securing a position as a link between Mainland China and the global market.

Action on nature could be boosted by blended finance, sending whole-of-government signals, and larger transactions, financiers said during a UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) event in Switzerland on Tuesday.

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive

A Scottish carbon removals company has signed a deal to permanently store 50,000 tonnes of CO2 in a depleted North Sea oilfield, it announced on Wednesday.

A US oil and gas company announced plans Wednesday to plough up to $30 billion in "low emissions opportunities" between 2025 and 2030, with almost 65% spent on reducing climate impact for third-party customers.

An international consultancy has secured a contract to manage the world’s first gas-fired power station with carbon capture and storage (CCS), which could sequester up to 2 million tonnes of CO2 a year, and received financial approval on Tuesday.

Biodiversity credit markets are unlikely to be effective for nature if they function as offsets, as they will require an excessive amount of regulation to check they are achieving credible gains for nature, according to a group of UK academics.

Mapping based on documents released under right-to-information laws show proposed areas include habitats for 37 threatened species

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Environmentalists have released what they say are the first maps of nearly 40,000 hectares of protected Tasmanian native forests that the state government plans to open to logging in what critics have described as “political point scoring”.

They suggest significant parts of the state’s north-east around the Ben Lomond national park and near the town of Scottsdale could be made available to the forestry industry if the Liberal government wins support for the changes in parliament. A smaller area of forest could be opened up in the north-west between Smithton and Wynyard.

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Europe still has a chance to compete with China and the US on clean technologies like offshore wind, power grids, heat pumps, and electrolysers, provided it can make the right decisions and act swiftly, according to the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).

Access to balanced diet also affected by inflation and Brexit, hitting most vulnerable households hardest

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Numbers of hungry and malnourished households in the UK are on the rise because of climate breakdown and inflation, government figures show, with poorer, younger and disabled people hit hardest.

Many households worry about food running out, cannot afford balanced meals, experience hunger and have missed meals in the past 30 days, the figures reveal.

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Researchers have found a potential new way of using CO2 to create valuable products such as fuel, a Korean university announced on Wednesday.

Environmental corporate commitments have broadened over the past couple of years, driven by an unprecedented increase in biodiversity-related target setting among some of the world's biggest companies, according to global consulting firm McKinsey.

European carbon prices strengthened on Wednesday morning as the market focused on the expiry of the December options contract shortly after midday, while weekly positioning data showed investment funds continued to add to their net long positions last week, amassing the biggest bullish bias in 20 months.