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The Slovenian government has committed €403 million to prevent the bankruptcy of the Sostanj coal power plant and the Velenje mine, taking control of both from state-owned utility Holding Slovenske Elektrarne (HSE) as part of its plan to phase out the fuel source by 2033.

An alliance of political groups is harnessing real fears about the local impact of renewables projects across Australia – and using them to spruik nuclear power

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The entrance is marked by an AI-generated image of a dead whale, floating among wind turbines. On the first floor of the East Maitland Bowling Club, dire warnings are being shared about how offshore wind may impact the Hunter region – but also a feeling of not being consulted, of being steamrolled.

“Environment and energy forums” like this one in late November have been held up and down the east of Australia, aiming to build a resistance to the country’s renewable energy transition.

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Energy company’s deal with Japan’s Jera will allow it to focus on exploiting oil and gas assets

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BP has agreed a deal worth up to £4.5bn to build offshore windfarms with Japan’s biggest power producer, in a shift that will allow it to gain some access to zero-carbon wind energy while focusing on fossil fuels.

The FTSE 100 company will create a 50-50 joint-venture with the Japanese power generator Jera to combine their offshore wind assets, the companies announced on Monday.

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Annual EU carbon emissions from electricity generation covered by the bloc's ETS are set to slump heavily once again in 2024 despite a strong rise in gas-fired output last month, analysts have said, though next year could see a much tighter market and a sustained price recovery.

Saudi officials and private sector players are open to buying carbon credits from Kenya in a voluntary market (VCM) deal at $8 per tonne, according to statements made on the sidelines of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 conference in Riyadh last week.

One of Australia’s biggest resource powerhouses could export billions of dollars worth of green iron by the beginning of the next decade and A$170 bln ($109 bln) by 2050 while saving emissions bigger than the entirety of Australia’s annual carbon output, a report said Monday.

European carbon prices gave up the gains made on Friday afternoon and resumed their rangebound trading on Monday as attention began to focus on the upcoming expiry of the December options contract, while UK carbon allowances dropped to their lowest in seven months amid low gas-fired generation and continued regulatory uncertainty.

Conservation groups join those who helped plant woodland in opposing expansion of bottling plant

Harrogate Spring Water, which is owned by the multinational Danone,is planning to cut down a wood planted by schoolchildren in order to expand its bottling factory in the North Yorkshire town.

Two primary schools, along with other local volunteers, helped to plant 450 trees in a project organised by the Rotary Club of Harrogate almost 20 years ago.

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The UK government will introduce a support scheme to encourage investment in clean hydrogen-to-power projects, following supportive feedback in a public consultation, it announced on Monday.

Launching a biodiversity credit market is among actions New Zealand should take in order to scale investments in nature-based solutions (NbS), according to a global consultancy.

An international carbon registry has partnered with Land and Forest Iceland, a government agency, to develop offset project standards and help advance the country’s climate initiatives.

A Colombian environmental standard has opened a public consultation on the first conservation project registered under its biodiversity credit programme, planning to certify it next year.

Selling low-carbon cement through book-and-claim deals, which separate the emissions savings from the physical product that's delivered, can help to scale up clean technologies by addressing the problems of geographic constraints and cost premiums, according to a manager at a clean cement developer.

Demand for pricier low-carbon industrial products can be encouraged with a reform of public procurement rules and the creation of ‘lead markets’ for green cement, the industry has argued ahead of new EU policy proposals due in the coming mandate.

The agreement on Article 6 at COP29 last month is raising confusion among corporate carbon credit buyers but it should boost confidence in the market longer term, participants told an industry conference last week.

Vietnam and the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) have extended for five years a cooperative framework on climate action and carbon pricing designed to put the Southeast Asian country on track to meet its ambitions under the Paris Agreement.

An area nearly a third larger than India turned permanently arid in past three decades, research shows

An area of land nearly a third larger than India has turned from humid conditions to dryland – arid areas where agriculture is difficult – in the past three decades, research has found.

Drylands now make up 40% of all land on Earth, excluding Antarctica. Three-quarters of the world’s land suffered drier conditions in the past 30 years, which is likely to be permanent, according to the study, by the UN Science Policy Interface, a body of scientists convened by the United Nations.

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In a week that saw UN civil aviation body ICAO publish its technical report on the flagship CORSIA offsetting scheme, which is being incorporated into national regulations around the world, this and other compliance carbon pricing initiatives posed diverse challenges and opportunities around the LATAM region – from Trinidad to Guyana, and Mexico to Brazil.

The New South Wales Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to strengthen GHG emissions regulations at its coal mines, based on feedback on how licences are governed.

In an Australian first, Quinbrook proposes to add a giant battery to its proposed polysilicon plant in Queensland to "firm the grid as well as the manufacturing facility."

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