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Between 1,200 and 1,500 developer planning applications each month are engaging with biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements, which suggests the law is working, a civil servant has said.

Russia adopted a law at the start of this year that will enable emissions reduction and removal projects to be developed in the country's forests.

Clean energy investment will in 2025 for the first time overtake upstream spending on oil and gas development with projected spend at $670 billion, according to analysts.

Three clean energy projects will receive a multi-million-dollar funding boost from the government of Western Australia, according to an official announcement.

Newcastle funnel-web spider’s last shared common ancestor with the Sydney funnel-web was 17 million years ago, experts say

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Kane Christensen’s passion is an arachnophobe’s nightmare. For two decades, he worked with deadly spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, a zoo located 80km north of Sydney – paying such close attention to the eight-legged predators that he helped scientists discover two new species.

He began there as a volunteer in 2003, milking venom from the fangs of Sydney funnel-web spiders. The park takes donations of captured male spiders from the public, using their venom to create life-saving antivenom. “Funnel-webs for me are just the pinnacle,” Christensen says.

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High court had ruled government was not meeting legal duty to clean up Costa Beck near Pickering

The UK environment secretary, Steve Reed, is pursuing legal action against a group of anglers who are trying to restore the ecosystem of a river.

Lawyers for Reed will argue on Tuesday in the court of appeal that cleaning up individual rivers and streams devastated by pollution is administratively unworkable.

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Exclusive: Costs of UK cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in UK if emissions of ‘forever chemicals’ remain uncontrolled

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The cost of cleaning up toxic forever chemical pollution could reach more than £1.6tn across the UK and Europe over a 20-year period, an annual bill of £84bn, research has found.

The number of British pollution hotspots is also on the rise. If emissions remain unrestricted and uncontrolled, the costs of cleanup will reach £9.9bn a year in the UK, according to the findings of a year-long investigation by the Forever Lobbying Project, a cross-border investigation involving 46 journalists and 18 experts across 16 countries.

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Producers add length while speculators take a step back from California Carbon Allowance (CCA), RGGI Allowance (RGA) holdings, while both groups made significant reductions to their Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) net length into start of year macro market weakness, according to delayed data released Monday from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

South Korea is planning an infrastructure fund worth one trillion won ($683 mln) to build an eco-friendly marine fuel supply chain by 2030.

RGGI allowances (RGAs) in the secondary market continued to lose momentum for the second week of the year, with the benchmark plunging 13.5% since the close of December.

Flinders University will trial a next-generation vertical wind turbine south of Adelaide in a research collaboration with local start-up VAWT-X Energy.

The post Australian researchers hope to put fresh spin on next-gen vertical wind turbines appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative - a group of financial institutions focussing on the transition to net zero - has halted some of its activities and launched a review, it announced late Monday, in the wake of high-profile exits and growing political headwinds.

In Australia, AI-driven data centres are starting to approach the current industry leader for electricity demand, aluminium smelting. So what does this mean for energy use, investment and build out?

The post AI and electricity: Are data centres the new aluminium smelters of demand – and how will we power them? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New York’s new Cap-and-Invest (NYCI) programme could deliver significant financial benefits for households across the state, especially under a high allowance price scenario, while also advancing ambitious climate goals, according to a report released Monday.

US clean fuel programme credit values across West Coast schemes held steady heading into 2025 following a year marked by record surpluses and historically low prices.

A California-based company specialising in industrial materials has received nearly $8.7 mln from a federal cost share award towards set up of a commercial demonstration plant to reduce the carbon footprint of the aluminium production process.

ASX-listed Vulcan Energy Resources is marking a milestone in developing a sustainable EV battery supply chain by harnessing geothermal energy.

The post Gina Rinehart-backed, geothermal powered “pit to battery” project marks key milestone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The outgoing Biden Administration commits to help fund the deployment of a novel long-duration energy storage technology in the state of California.

The post Compressed air storage pioneer secures billion-dollar loan to deliver 8 hours back-up to California grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

New analysis finds modern nuclear power plants are, on balance, about as "always on" as wind and solar farms – if those wind and solar farms were in the midst of a very bad renewable energy drought.

The post Peter Dutton’s “always on” nuclear power is about as reliable as wind and solar – during a renewables drought appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Indonesia’s National Carbon Exchange (IDX Carbon) has seen a boost in trading volume in January, with three more projects being added to generate carbon credits.