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Fresh analysis points to limited 2024 impact of Red Sea diversions on EUA demand
INTERVIEW: Conservation NGO cuts out brokers in plan to develop and sell REDD carbon credits
Far-right win at EU elections could derail the bloc’s Green Deal -report
Minister vows to end water firms’ pollution self-monitoring in England
Environment secretary, Steve Barclay, tells firms he will toughen regulatory approach but gives no timescale
The environment secretary has told water companies in England that they will no longer be able to monitor and report on pollution from their own treatment works.
Steve Barclay told the privatised industry he would put an end to operator self-monitoring in a toughening of the regulatory approach.
Continue reading...Devastating drought in Amazon result of climate crisis, study shows
Extreme weather threatens world’s biggest carbon store as the rainforest is already close to tipping point
The climate crisis turned the drought that struck the Amazon rainforest in 2023 into a devastating event, a study has found.
The drought was the worst recorded in many places and hit the maximum “exceptional” level on the scientific scale. Without planet-warming emissions from the burning of oil, gas and coal, the drought would have been far less extreme, the analysis found.
Continue reading...UK MPs warned that carbon credit reporting lacks transparency
Portuguese voluntary carbon law relaxes requirements on residual emissions, additionality
UK updates biodiversity gain hierarchy to apply to all habitat types
Verra inactivates methodology of large voluntary carbon project
Key climate language poorly understood by majority in UK, poll finds
Terms such as ‘green’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘environmentally friendly’ understood only by minority, says study
The British public has a worryingly low understanding of language around the climate crisis and environmental policies to reduce waste, according to the findings of a survey.
Only a quarter of people questioned clearly understood the term “green” and about the same number could accurately describe what “sustainable” – making something in a way that causes little or no damage to the environment – meant.
Continue reading...Lack of nature positive awareness could trigger ‘unintentional greenwashing’, expert says
Shooting ‘deviant’ wolves with paintball guns is legal, Dutch court rules
Increasingly fearless predators found to be serious threat to safety in national parks
Dutch authorities can shoot “deviant” wolves that could pose a danger to the public with paintball guns, a court has ruled, as debate rages in Europe over protecting the animals.
After a lengthy legal battle, the court in Utrecht, central Netherlands, decided on Wednesday that the behaviour of some of the wolves in a national park was “a serious threat to public safety”.
Continue reading...Record renewables drive prices down, but coal states still the most expensive
Renewables continue to reshape Australian grid, and bring down prices - but the most coal dependent states have the dirtiest and costliest power, while battling rising temperatures and demand.
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W.A. green hydrogen project expands to 12GW, and 4.5 GWh battery storage
Province Resources is promising a Fortescue-sized project on a threadbare budget.
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Indian developers team up with state government in mangrove restoration drive
EU fossil fuel CO2 emissions hit 60-year low
Fossil emissions ‘finally back to 1960s levels’, say analysts, but they warn levels are still falling too slowly
The European Union pumped out 8% less carbon dioxide from the fossil fuels it burned in 2023 than it did in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, pushing these emissions down to their lowest level in 60 years.
The fall in planet-heating pollution is the steepest yearly drop on record behind 2020, when governments shuttered factories and grounded flights to stop the spread of Covid-19, according to analysis from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (Crea).
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