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An online marketplace pilot for nature projects that benefit carbon, wildlife, and water, including biodiversity net gain (BNG) and focused on the Cornwall region of the UK, has been launched in collaboration with the government.

BYD unveils platform with charging power of 1,000 kW, which would be twice as fast as Tesla’s supercharging

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The Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD has unveiled a new charging system that it said could make it possible for EVs to charge as quickly as it takes to refill with petrol.

BYD’s Hong Kong-listed shares gained 4.1% on Tuesday to hit a record high of 408.80 Hong Kong dollars, as investors bet that the company could strengthen its already commanding position as one of the world’s biggest electric carmakers.

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Britain’s goal for net zero emissions by 2050 is “impossible” to achieve, lacks a proper plan, and is driving up the country’s energy costs and reliance on countries that “do not share our values” — namely, China — the leader of the opposition Conservative party, Kemi Badenoch, said on Tuesday.

Thanks to electric cars driven by EU CO2 standards, European transport emissions have dipped, said campaign group Transport & Environment (T&E) in a report on Tuesday. Increased air travel risks undoing the savings however, it added.

British and European parliamentarians have called for deeper climate and energy collaboration across the Channel and urged policymakers on both sides to give "serious consideration" to linking their emissions trading systems (ETSs). 

New study finds dolphins, including critically endangered Burrunan, have among the world’s highest levels of chemicals banned decades ago

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It has been half a century since governments around the world, faced with overwhelming evidence, started banning early generations of what we now call forever chemicals. Industrial chemicals known as polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and the notorious pesticide DDT had been widely used – DDT is credited with saving millions of lives from insect-borne disease, while PCBs were vital in electrical safety – before it was understood that they were serious environmental toxins.

“The problem with these legacy contaminants,” environmental scientist Chantel Foord says, “is that they’re amazing in our products because they don’t break down, but they’re equally devastating in our environment because they don’t break down.”

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The alternative investments arm of a large US-headquartered asset manager has launched a dedicated private credit strategy focused on financing climate and environmental businesses, securing $1 billion in initial institutional equity commitments.

The Science Based Target initiative (SBTi) plans to allow companies to buy carbon removal credits to account for residual emissions, and also to scrap fixed-target setting boundaries for Scope 3 emissions, but the use of other voluntary carbon offsets was not included in a new draft of the organisation's Corporate Net-Zero Standard.

A carbon removal standard has unveiled a new platform designed to transform the carbon credit industry by speeding up the verification process.

Renovating buildings to be more efficient brings significant potential for carbon savings over building new, though also comes with a number of challenges as experienced by the owners of large conservation property portfolios.

European carbon prices moved in a comparatively narrow range on Tuesday morning as the effect of March options open interest continued to grow, while energy markets were little changed as participants waited for the outcome of talks later today between the US and Russian leaders over a potential ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.

A fund has secured $175 million through forging partnerships with an aim to accelerate investment in natural climate solutions.

The Earth’s ability to naturally store CO2 is declining, in a trend that is exacerbating the global climate crisis and putting international emissions targets at risk, according to a new study.

Deal will restrict fishing near colonies on Robben Island and Bird Island for 10 years, after long debate between industry and conservationists

Efforts to stop the critically endangered African penguin from going extinct took a step forward on Tuesday after South African conservationists and fishing industry groups reached a legal settlement on no-fishing zones around six of the penguins’ major breeding colonies.

Sardine and anchovy fishing will not be allowed for 12 miles (20km) around the penguin colony off Cape Town on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned, and Bird Island, across the bay from Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth. There will be more limited closures around four other colonies, according to a court order formalising the agreement.

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The Greens unveil a range of grants and loans to help households and businesses quit gas and invest in efficient electric appliances, as well as battery storage.

The post Greens kick off election home battery battle with suite of grants and loans to get homes off gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Pakistan can potentially generate between $2-5 billion from carbon markets by 2030 if the South Asian nation succeeds in reducing its industrial carbon footprint to counter the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to a report.

Commentary has highlighted ongoing uncertainty around the particulars of the closely-followed integrated farm land management (IFLM) method, while the issuance of Australian carbon credits rose in February.

Chinese regulators on Tuesday issued a notice to support the development of the Green Electricity Certificate (GEC) market, as the country continues to enhance its growing renewables market.

A Malaysia-based environmental watchdog said this week the nation’s newly announced carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) laws will ramp up rather than cut emissions, and expressed alarm over its restrictive national security provisions that could prevent legal action being launched if a project goes wrong.

Flying lobsters, cuttlefish ink and stargazy pie … Jon Tonks got on his kayak to spend 18 months photographing the incredible fishing communities around England’s south-west coast

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