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A carbon project verification company has announced its expansion to cover afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) activities, it said Tuesday.

The Arab League on Monday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Qatari sustainability institution to enhance regional cooperation and build local capacity on carbon markets, according to reports in regional media.

Key political figures in Europe have joined centre-right calls for greater flexibility in meeting EU climate targets, supporting instead a technology-neutral approach that puts renewables, nuclear, and other clean technologies on an equal footing to meet the EU’s decarbonisation objectives.

More policy incentives are needed to encourage the nascent carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sector, given a wide gap in price perceptions among market participants, according to results of a recent pricing survey.

More than 40% of individual corals monitored around One Tree Island reef bleached by heat stress and damaged by flesh-eating disease

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More than 40% of individual corals monitored around a Great Barrier Reef island were killed last year in the most widespread coral bleaching outbreak to hit the reef system, a study has found.

Scientists tracked 462 colonies of corals at One Tree Island in the southern part of the Great Barrier Reef after heat stress began to turn the corals white in early 2024. Researchers said they encountered “catastrophic” scenes at the reef.

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A Swedish project that protects and restores valuable butterfly habitat is able to continue and expand after Microsoft provided funding for a local non-profit to buy all the biodiversity credits generated from the project over a two-year period.

Nearly 70% of EU commitments on soil protection and restoration have been fulfilled to date, though some key measures still hang in the balance, according to an assessment released by the European Commission.

European carbon prices slid lower on Tuesday morning as weaker sentiment brought an end to an eight-day rally, with more participants eyeing the possibility of a sell-off as technical signals pointed to an overbought market, while UK Allowances steadied after bouncing back from Monday's record low.

The government of South Australia (SA) has opened public consultations on the draft text of the state's first Biodiversity Act aimed at enhancing nature protection, including through establishing conservation targets and increasing penalties for environmental crimes.

The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has suggested "there is scope to rationalise" and simplify the climate regulation facing UK financial services in a bid to boost economic growth, in a recent letter sent to Westminster.

An academic has questioned the marketing of English biodiversity net gain (BNG) units as voluntary biodiversity credits due to issues with the metric.

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

A third of the Arctic’s tundra, forests and wetlands have become a source of carbon emissions, a new study has found, as global heating ends thousands of years of carbon storage in parts of the frozen north.

For millennia, Arctic land ecosystems have acted as a deep-freeze for the planet’s carbon, holding vast amounts of potential emissions in the permafrost. But ecosystems in the region are increasingly becoming a contributor to global heating as they release more CO2 into the atmosphere with rising temperatures, a new study published in Nature Climate Change concluded.

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A Chinese tech major has agreed a deal with a California-based climate finance company for the purchase of nature-based carbon removals to 2040.

Expert says the planet parade will be best viewed around 21 January and recommends downloading a sky map app to help see when the planets align

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Stargazers are being treated to a rare planetary alignment this month, also known as a “planet parade”, with most of the planets visible in the night sky at the same time.

Astrophysicist Dr Rebecca Allen, co-director of Swinburne University’s space technology and industry institute, said it would be a rare opportunity to see so many planets align, especially outer ones such as Neptune.

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The Australian government approved the clearing of more than 25,000 hectares of threatened species habitat in 2024, more than double compared to the previous year, according to an analysis published Tuesday.

Global gas markets are expected to remain tight in 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said in its quarterly market report on Tuesday, suggesting upward pressure on carbon prices will remain in regions like the European Union.

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has announced a programme with Rabobank Australia to commit A$200 million ($124 mln) to help reduce upfront costs of environmental plantings carbon projects in the country.

PM says Australia has an enormous opportunity to speed up clean energy investment as the newly inaugurated Trump winds back action on climate, renewables.

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Ausgrid switches on its sixth community battery to be awarded federal funding under the Community Batteries for Household Solar program.

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