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Governor Spencer Cox (R) last week signed legislation that would allow Utah to purchase the state's largest coal-fired power plant, originally scheduled for retirement in 2025, amid backlash from the operator citing a drop in electricity demand.

Cemex continues to cut its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, allowing it to stretch the length of time it can rely on its surplus of European carbon allowances, the cement-maker said on Tuesday.

New research from three Australian universities shows forest regrowth projects show little improvement, many going backwards.

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Major new report maps out a path for Australia to deliver a 75% emissions cut below 2005 levels by 2030, and net zero by 2035.

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An Atlanta-based direct air capture (DAC) company announced its official launch Tuesday, aiming to provide an economically advantageous way to remove CO2 at large scale.

Gold Standard has expressed disappointment with a UN decision to keep its voluntary carbon credits still pending approval for the current phase of CORSIA, and regrets that the assessment process did not allow for more open communication with other applying programmes.

California electricity sector emissions continued to fall to record lows in February, as natural gas retreated from its historically high share of the state's energy supply it has held in recent months, data published Friday showed.

A carbon-negative investment platform is issuing a biochar carbon token that "cannot be corrupted by greenwashing", using blockchain-based trading technology, it announced on Tuesday.

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Many countries are not including sustainability in consumer protection laws, an action regarded as a critical way of hastening the implementation of the GBF, a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) officer said Tuesday.

Two prominent climate policy experts have taken issue with criticisms that the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework risks leading to double counting towards UN climate targets, saying this is “an essential feature rather than a bug”.

A London-headquartered carbon insurance company has unveiled the expansion of its offering to covered voluntary enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) will not bow to pressure and validate the use of voluntary carbon credits to help a company achieve its emission targets, the body confirmed to Carbon Pulse Tuesday.

The building industry would benefit from a clearer definition of net zero and regulation requiring it to measure and track the whole-life carbon emissions of building projects, according to an industry consultant, who also acknowledged that the sector will need voluntary carbon credits to offset its residual emissions.

The Labour party in the UK wants to make the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme easier to manage for land owners while better understanding its impacts, according to a minister.

LEGO Group has signed a nine-year deal with a direct air capture technology developer to permanently remove CO2, the companies announced on Tuesday.

EU carbon prices were slightly weaker at midday on Tuesday after strong early gains were followed by renewed selling, while energy prices eased back after the previous session's sharp gains, which one analyst called "exaggerated".

Exclusive: Fingers of willow gloves, found in only two woodlands, will be rushed to Cumbria and tied to new trees

Fingers of a critically endangered fungus will this week be removed from its last sites in Scotland and fixed to trees in three woodlands in England to save it from extinction.

Willow gloves, which resembles the fingers of washing-up gloves and grows on dead trees, is found only in two woodlands, and the vast majority is living on just one fallen tree.

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A last-minute failure to green-light the so-called Nature Restoration Law will leave the European Union "empty-handed" at the upcoming UN summit on biodiversity, EU commissioner for Environment Virginijus Sinkevicius said during a bitter speech on Monday.

Concerns about social acceptance, industrial policy, and finance came to the fore on Monday as the EU’s 27 environment ministers debated the bloc’s 2040 climate target.