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Northern Ireland will have to tackle its highest-emitting sector — agriculture — by providing incentives for farmers to decarbonise, in order to achieve a 77% emissions reduction by 2040 and reach net zero by 2050, the UK's independent climate advisor said on Wednesday.

Commission launched in 2022 says lagoon project, not full barrage, should be backed by UK and Welsh governments

Urgent action is needed to harness the UK’s potential for tidal range energy in the Severn estuary but smaller lagoon models should be pursued over a larger dam-like barrage, a panel of experts has said.

The Severn Estuary Commission said that harnessing the energy of the tides in the estuary could deliver predictable, renewable electricity that would work independent of weather conditions.

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Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced

The devastating impacts of the climate crisis reached new heights in 2024, with scores of unprecedented heatwaves, floods and storms across the globe, according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization.

The WMO’s report on 2024, the hottest year on record, sets out a trail of destruction from extreme weather that took lives, demolished buildings and ravaged vital crops. More than 800,000 people were displaced and made homeless, the highest yearly number since records began in 2008.

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The German Bundestag voted through a historic finance package on Tuesday that introduced a reference to the country’s net zero by 2045 goal into its constitution.

Sea foam is a health hazard. These bacterial smoothies can contain more harmful pathogens than a sewage treatment plant – and you wouldn’t go swimming in sewage. Ipek Kurtböke, Associate Professor in Microbiology, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The first New Zealand ETS auction for 2025 has failed to clear, with no one showing up to bid, in line with market expectations.

A multilateral investment fund unveiled recently a $85 million investment plan aimed at transforming the energy infrastructure of the Dominican Republican and generating transition carbon credits.

Wisconsin lawmakers introduced legislation Monday aiming to create a plan for the state to hit an emissions reduction target for 2030 and net zero in 2050.

Ohio Republican lawmakers recently introduced a bill aiming to establish a regulatory framework for carbon capture and storage (CCS) within the state.

Murdoch media flags an "exclusive" saying Yallourn coal plant will be kept open another four years. The plant owner, AEMO, and the state government say that is not true.

The post Victoria slaps down Murdoch media reports that giant coal fired power station to be kept open appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California lawmakers this week amended one of the bills introduced to cement the state legislature’s intent to extend the cap-and-trade programme past 2030, stripping reauthorisation language to instead adjust price ceiling provisions under the scheme.

Kenya’s 2023 carbon markets bill remains tied up in the legislature, but it will ultimately embody a pleasantly surprising level of expertise and focus, a Nairobi-based climate tech investor told the 2025 Global Direct Air Capture Conference in New York on Tuesday.

States considering regulations to lower aviation emissions, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) mandates, can minimise legal risks of federal preemption by carefully structuring policies, according to a new report examining viable state-level strategies.

Chris Weston and Alastair Cochran targeted by group who accuse them of causing a public nuisance

Environmental campaigners have attempted citizen’s arrests of the chief executive and chief financial officer of Thames Water on suspicion of causing a causing a public nuisance.

The campaigners accuse Chris Weston and Alastair Cochran of five to seven counts of the offence, which is regularly used against protesters, including illegal discharge of sewage, mismanagement of customer funds and operating unsafe infrastructure.

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Efforts to cut emissions from the UK’s building sector are being hampered by persistent funding gaps and fragmented policy, according to a new report.

Insufficient data and a lack of clarity about how to track Scope 3 emissions is blocking companies from achieving their sustainability goals, a survey of sustainability leaders has found.

It's too early to say which types of technologies will receive support under the European Commission’s upcoming Industrial Decarbonisation Bank, due in over a year, but the potential candidates include carbon capture and storage (CCS), an EU official said on Tuesday.

Direct air capture (DAC) faces iteration and value chain roll-out challenges as proponents of the technology attempt to increase adoption, attendees heard in New York on Tuesday at the 2025 Global Direct Air Capture Conference.

Members of the European Parliament are urging action to support the EU’s energy-intensive industries, voicing concerns that persistently high energy prices and regulatory hurdles are undermining their global competitiveness and decarbonisation efforts.

A group of 30 firms, non-profits, and public sector bodies on Tuesday launched a global initiative to create a protocol to standardise data definitions and rules for carbon crediting projects.