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Colorado and a Netherlands-based global reforestation firm announced Wednesday a lease agreement to reforest wildfire-impacted state land, aiming to generate carbon credits under a public-private partnership approach.

Regulations published Tuesday to help operationalise Paraguay’s 2023 law on carbon markets lean into the Paris Agreement’s Article 6, seeking convergence with the voluntary carbon market (VCM) to open opportunities for domestic projects, according to a senior official speaking to Carbon Pulse.

In light of a California administrator’s disapproval of recent updates to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), credit prices in the secondary market plunged about 22.8% at market open Wednesday.

After becoming embroiled in scandal, formerly hot startup and Wall Street star had said it would likely run out of cash

Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year.

Nikola was a hot startup and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scandal and its founder was convicted in 2022 for misleading investors about the Arizona company’s technology.

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The European Union's transition to clean heating technologies is facing serious headwinds, experts have said, putting at risk the sector's impending coverage under carbon pricing and risking deeper energy poverty for vulnerable households.

Two sinkholes have appeared in the Surrey village of Godstone, but how have they formed and are they dangerous?

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The EU plans to further accelerate the deployment of renewables to lower energy prices for energy-intensive industries and households, with new state aid measures to support investments in clean technologies, according to draft European Commission proposals due to be unveiled on Feb. 26.

Brussels is taking a measured stance on carbon farming, preferring to build on existing voluntary initiatives rather than impose a complex new system of capturing carbon on the EU's 9 million farms, EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen told Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

If the US were to leave CORSIA there could be major ramifications for the EU ETS, carbon analysts said Wednesday.

Site in Cumbria can now return to routine inspections but concerns remain over cybersecurity

The UK nuclear industry regulator has taken Sellafield, the world’s largest store of plutonium, out of special measures for its physical security – but said concerns remained over its cybersecurity.

Guarding arrangements at the vast nuclear waste dump in Cumbria have improved enough to allow for routine inspections from the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), rather than requiring “enhanced regulatory oversight”.

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Decades-long research shows world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of ice between 2000 and 2023

Melting glaciers have caused almost 2cm of sea level rise this century alone, a decades-long study has revealed.

The research shows the world’s glaciers collectively lost 6.542tn tonnes of ice between 2000 and 2023, causing an 18mm (0.7in) rise in global sea levels.

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The most effective strategy to scale up nature-based solutions (NbS) in urban areas is the mainstreaming of projects into all the World Bank's support programmes, according to an official.

Delivering grid balancing services by aggregating household energy demand is easier and cheaper than switching fossil fuel power plants on and off, according to a software company operating with a large European utility.

The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study.

The planet's glaciers have lost 5% of their ice in little over 20 years, according to a major study.

The report promises better pay and protections for farmers, but environmentalists say it will not help restore nature or assure food security

European farmers will face fewer rules and less foreign competition, a new vision for agriculture promises, as environmental campaigners warn that key green proposals have been ignored.

The EU’s new farming strategy will overhaul the sector with targeted financial support, stricter import standards and a shift from “conditions to incentives” in the green strings attached to its vast subsidy scheme, according to the report published on Wednesday.

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The Greens in the European Parliament have urged the EU Commission to take a bolder approach to industrial policy in its upcoming initiative for a Clean Industrial Deal, warning that watering down the proposal would harm Europe's economy, energy security, and global competitiveness.

The European Commission aims to present draft legislation at the end of June to formalise certification methodologies for measuring CO2 sequestration from permanent carbon removals (CDR) – including one potentially dedicated to biochar, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A European biomethane producer has selected a carbon crediting platform to certify its carbon removal (CDR) credits for its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) projects, the companies announced on Wednesday.