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A US state forest service is launching a programme to help landowners make their forests more resilient and support practices for improving carbon management.

New global data show wind and solar doing most of work cutting emissions, and there is no nuclear renaissance. Meanwhile, Labor disappoints on climate.

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A new report has outlined a pathway for scaling regenerative agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado region, but technical and financial capacity gaps pose significant hurdles to widespread adoption.

An Argentine project has this month been listed with the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) registry, according to government reports on Tuesday.

The European Commission on Wednesday confirmed its intention to put forward draft legislation this year to certify permanent carbon removals from direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), and biochar.

The SBTi may have heightened confusion in the carbon removal (CDR) sector following the release of a draft update to its flagship corporate climate standard, which will pit the practicalities of company decision-making against the nascent industry’s struggle to scale, experts told a webinar on Wednesday.

The European Union’s ambitious Nature Restoration Law (NRL) has the potential to reverse decades of marine biodiversity loss, but a WWF report released Wednesday warned that without proper enforcement, it risks becoming another case of "paper parks" without effective conservation measures.

A US-based carbon marketplace startup announced Wednesday it is joining a new $176 million initiative that aims to transform smallholder cocoa farming in Brazil by promoting sustainable practices and facilitating access to carbon markets.

The autonomous region of Galicia in Spain will soon pass carbon markets legislation that aims to draw investment into local communities while encouraging finance flows from within and outside the region, a top environment official told Carbon Pulse.

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.

The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich. The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”, according to the paper, published in Nature.

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A regional court in Germany has barred an airline from using two marketing statements it deemed misleading in relation to CO2 offsetting, following a legal challenge from an environmental non-profit.

A carbon removal standard has released a draft methodology for public consultation on carbon removal (CDR) using river alkalinity enhancement (RAE), which it claims is the first such crediting protocol.

Five recommended key rules for nature markets to achieve their environmental aims while delivering scientifically credible outcomes have been put forward in a pre-print by academics, with the most important being additionality.

Shell reduced the volume of carbon credits it retired in 2024, as a drop in transport fuel sales and increased renewable electricity transactions helped the company progress toward its net zero targets, the energy major said in its annual report.

Australian coal mine methane emissions have barely budged in decades despite a vast ramp up in coal production but the devil is in the details, which show this may not indicate an absolute drop in emissions intensity, a think tank warned Thursday.

A conservation organisation is preparing to expand its portfolio of biodiversity credit projects in Europe, as moving beyond just carbon could help it increase revenues and better support landowners implementing nature protection and restoration activities, its founder told Carbon Pulse.

A carbon insurance startup said Wednesday it has expanded its underwriting capacity to €22.5 million, a 450% increase in the safety net to meet growing demand for carbon risk solutions.

Critics say industry threatens the endangered Maugean skate and laws were rushed through with ’no proper process’

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Controversial legislation to protect the Tasmanian salmon industry has passed parliament after the government guillotined debate to bring on a vote in the Senate on Wednesday night.

Government and Coalition senators voted in favour of the bill, which was designed to bring an end to a formal reconsideration by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, into whether an expansion of fish farming in Macquarie harbour in 2012 was properly approved.

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The tough stance adopted by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM) on cookstove methodologies is “overly conservative” in part, warns a lobby group for project developers.

European carbon prices clung to a key price level for much of Wednesday morning before reaching midday little changed as trading in the March options contract entered the finals hours before expiry, shrugging off data showing that investment funds had increased their bullish positioning for the first time in six weeks.