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Developers in England deliver 53% of features such as trees and bird boxes demanded in planning permissions, study says

Nearly half of the nature-friendly enhancements promised by developers building new homes have failed to materialise, according to a study of almost 6,000 new houses.

Developers are failing to keep legally binding pledges to boost wildlife when building new homes, according to the survey by University of Sheffield academics for Wild Justice.

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The bundled climate goals of state and territory governments already amount to a total country-wide emissions cut of 71 per cent by 2035, new analysis suggests.

The post State actions provide springboard for an ambitious 2035 emissions target consistent with 1.5°C appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A UN technical assessment team has concluded that the data and information used by Zimbabwe to construct its official forest carbon baseline are transparent, complete, and aligned with UN REDD guidance, potentially opening the country up to future sovereign forestry credit issuances.

The electrification of European industries would see a huge cut carbon emissions from the sector based on existing technologies, while also improving the bloc's competitiveness with energy independence and greater efficiency, according to a new report Thursday.

A dozen marine scientists, film-makers, musicians and conservationists, including Tim Winton, John Butler and Dr Ben Fitzpatrick, have made an epic voyage to Scott Reef, one of Australia’s wildest and most remote coral reefs, to document the threats posed by Woodside’s Browse gas proposal. Woodside’s Burrup Hub is the biggest new fossil fuel project in the southern hemisphere and, if approved, would emit more than 6bn tonnes of CO2 by 2070

• Australia’s north-west reefs teem with life – but they are also at the centre of a massive fossil fuel expansion

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Maps and charts show the locations of the winning projects in Australia's biggest wind and solar tender, and which states fared the best, and worst.

The post Chart and Map of the Day: The big winners from Australia’s biggest wind and solar auction appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Public attention and positive sentiment towards carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies have grown significantly on social media over the past decade, according to a new study that analysed trends on Twitter from 2010 to 2022.

A consortium of large investors has bid to take one of Asia’s largest carbon offset project developers private.

A major voluntary carbon credit standard has signed two partnership agreements with registry and exchange operators aimed at enhancing the market by improving transparency, liquidity, and integrity in transactions.

UK provider backed by Australia's Quinbrook chosen to provide optimisation services to the biggest battery project in the ACT.

The post UK provider chosen to optimise 500MWh Canberra battery with unique revenue sharing deal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An unreformed EPBC is crippling renewables investment, but there are some easy fixed, big investors say.

The post EPBC green tape is crippling renewables investment as timelines double, report says appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Washington’s Q4 current vintage auction defied market expectations, clearing nearly 30% below the 2024 Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) Tier 1 trigger price.

Even small actions, such as choosing the right rooftop solar set-up or changing when we use energy, can make a big difference. Dani Alexander, CEO, UNSW Energy Institute, UNSW Sydney Baran Yildiz, Senior lecturer in Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney Michelle Vaqueiro-Contreras, Senior Research Fellow, School of Photovoltaics and Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney Mike Roberts, Senior Research Fellow in the Collaboration on Energy and Environmental Markets, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US announced grants totalling $54.3 million spread between four organisations to spur new coastal services and technologies, including carbon management.

A US-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) project developer on Wednesday announced an offering of forward offtake agreements for an industrial carbon storage hub estimated to generate 400,000 offsets annually.

Lawmakers from the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) have called on the EU to find ways of avoiding fines for carmakers that fail to meet their CO2 reduction targets in 2025, saying “a realistic approach” is needed on EU climate goals.

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.