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Optimism from the start of discussions to extend cap-and-trade post 2030 supported California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices higher after a sub-$30 auction result mid-week, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) reversed higher as lawmakers deliberated programme modifications.

Tim Nelson says three major themes have already emerged from submissions to the NEM market review, and how to use consumer resources is one of them.

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A contested South Australia wind project gets planning approval for a new design that slashes turbine numbers in favour of taller and more powerful machines.

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Tim Nelson discusses some options being considered by the NEM market review panel, and why his home battery is front of mind. Plus: Big news for pumped hydro and falling storage costs.

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California’s policy should incorporate carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) and CO2 removal (CDR) into the state's ETS in order to help de-risk and accelerate deployment of the emerging technologies, carbon buyers, and investors said Thursday.

Delegates hammer out compromise on delivering billions of dollars to protect species and their habitats

Delegates from across the world have cheered a last-gasp deal to map out funding to protect nature, breaking a deadlock at UN talks seen as a test for international cooperation in the face of geopolitical tensions.

Rich and developing countries on Thursday hammered out a delicate compromise on raising and delivering the billions of dollars needed to protect species, overcoming stark divisions that had scuttled their previous Cop16 meeting in Cali, Colombia last year.

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Funding agreed at UN conference in Rome that would attempt to tackle the rapid loss of biodiversity

EnergyAustralia turns the sod on its first four-hour big battery, and its biggest single project investment as it lays ground for its post-coal strategy.

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The Canadian government’s new pilot scheme for procuring CO2 removal (CDR) services has drawn mixed reactions from industry stakeholders, who say the programme must be more ambitious and flexible to position the country as a global leader in the sector.

The family foundation of an American tech billionaire has announced $5 million in grants to support natural-based solutions (NbS) across the Pacific Northwest (PNW), aiming to accelerate climate change mitigation through ecosystem restoration and carbon capture.

AGL revives a wind project it put on hold in favour of a coal strategy more than a decade ago, and adds bigger turbines and a big battery.

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The last days of the summer season marked with more solar output records across the main grid, and in the Sunshine state.

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A sudden USAID funding freeze has jeopardised years of US efforts to onboard countries onto carbon markets and credit trading, sources familiar with agency operations told Carbon Pulse.

Australia’s car factories lie silent after the industry foundered. These factories could be used to help solve a huge problem: how to build more housing. Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Withdrawing support for research and scrubbing climate data from US government websites has repercussions for Australia and the world. But there are ways around it. Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Union’s new climate policies are unlikely to have a significant near-term impact on the bloc's carbon market, but long-term uncertainties remain, analysts have told Carbon Pulse.

Tech giant Apple has been threatened with class action lawsuit in the US over allegations that it misled consumers by marketing its smartwatch as carbon neutral through the use of “ineffective and redundant” offsets.

Trial announced as Keir Starmer arrives in Washington to meet Donald Trump, a longtime critic of windfarms

Offshore windfarms are to be painted black in an effort to reduce the number of birds that die after flying into them.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a four-year trial to paint the wind turbines after officials raised concerns that the government’s plan to increase turbine numbers in the North Sea could spell danger for seabirds. Limited research has been conducted on the number of birds killed this way, but estimates range from four to 18 per turbine per year.

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Some 73% of organisations are planning to offset their hard-to-abate emissions using carbon credits, according to a survey of 300 UK-based senior executives across multiple sectors, which also found over 90% of respondents are confident their organisation will meet net zero.

Germany is set to cover nearly half of its energy needs with electricity by 2050, but emissions cuts will fall short of the country’s 2045 net zero goal, according to a report released Thursday.