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Energy ministers from EU candidate nations have called on Brussels to set out their potential carbon pricing options as they scramble to establish policies that can mitigate the impact of the EU's carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM). 

Stephen Gingell, 57, given six-month sentence for ‘interference with key national infrastructure’

A climate activist has been jailed for six months after pleading guilty to taking part in a peaceful slow march protest on a London road.

The sentence handed to Stephen Gingell, 57, is thought to be the first jailing under a new law that critics say makes anyone walking in a road liable for prosecution for “interference with key national infrastructure”.

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The world’s leading carbon credit certifier has signed an MoU with a bank-led pilot programme for farmers seeking to utilise marginal land, aiming to support capacity-building for participation in land use-based projects. 

A forestry project in Uganda has obtained Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified accreditation for its soil conservation, enabling it to ask for sponsorship for its work.

European carbon prices were relatively stable on Friday morning as the relentless selling pressure appeared to pause, though traders were cautious about a renewed assault in the afternoon after Thursday's late decline, while energy markets weakened for a second consecutive day on mild weather and higher renewable output.

Coal use hit a record high last year after several years of Covid- dampened demand, largely driven by three Asian economies and to a lesser extent Europe, according to a report published on Friday that predicted a further record this year before demand dips and then plateaus to 2026.

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Taiwan has released a policy draft regulating the trading of domestically issued emissions reductions credits as supplementary measures to complement the island's proposed carbon levy scheme that will be developed in the coming few years.

The Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture (YCNCC) at Yale University is seeking highly qualified candidates who are passionate about mitigating climate change to manage and direct the data and scientific computing needs across the YCNCC. The successful applicant will collaborate with an interdisciplinary team of climate scientists, physicists, chemists, oceanographers, geochemists, and ecologists to advance the research and deployment of climate change solutions developed at the YCNCC.

Weekly trading volumes in China's national carbon market continued to shrink over the past week due to slowing compliance demand, with participants saying most regulated entities have now surrendered their permits for 2021 and 2022 compliance.

Western Australia will end commercial logging in its old growth and native forests from the beginning of next year, according to a government plan released Friday.

Environmental trading platform Regen Network is lining up a vote among its community members to decide whether to start listing units generated by Colombia-based Terrasos as a first outright biodiversity credits on the platform, with others to follow.

The states of Western Australia and Queensland both made updates to their climate plans this week, showing the yawning levels of difference in ambition, at least on paper, between them.

Exclusive: Sultan Al Jaber says Adnoc has to meet demand for fossil fuels, and hails ‘unprecedented’ Cop deal

The president of the Cop28 climate summit will continue with his oil company’s record investment in oil and gas production, despite coordinating a global deal to “transition away” from fossil fuels.

Sultan Al Jaber, who is also the chief executive of the United Arab Emirates’ national oil and gas company, Adnoc, told the Guardian the company had to satisfy demand for fossil fuels.

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The summit’s moves to intermesh nature and climate goals are welcomed by campaigners, but concerns remain

Conservation groups have hailed the inclusion of biodiversity and a 2030 global deforestation goal in the UAE consensus that emerged from Cop28, along with positive wording on the role of Indigenous communities.

Some hope the deal could help to intermesh nature and climate more closely, rather than treating the two as separate subjects. But many expressed concerns that tepid language on fossil fuel emissions would fail to control the global heating responsible for eroding forest resilience to drought, fire and disease, threatening to tip carbon-rich ecosystems into becoming a source of the greenhouse gas emissions that are heating the planet.

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Terrapinn Limited is bringing the Australian edition of Solar & Storage LIve to Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre on 1 & 2 May 2024.

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A UK-based start-up has raised $1.6 million in pre-seed investments to scale its AI technology that it says can convert high-resolution landscape imagery to actionable insights.

Baringa’s Anne Bailey talks about the Capacity Investment Mechanism and what’s needed to make it work. Plus: AEMO’s 2024 ISP, the COP28 results, and energy ministers and coal plants.

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