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Bucharest has an obligation to provide 10.3 million tonnes of annual CO2 storage capacity under the EU’s Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA), representing about 20% of the EU’s objective by 2030, according to figures circulated in Brussels by the country’s national regulator.

European carbon prices opened with a gap higher on Friday morning as energy prices also jumped on reports of an attack on infrastructure at the Sudzha gas transmission facility in western Russia, before falling back amid steady selling for much of the morning, while UKAs hit a nine-month high after yet another update that the UK government was considering linking to the EU ETS.

European retail banks largely overlook plastic pollution in their lending decisions, which is poised to expose them to increasing financial risks, according to a London-based think tank.

Broadcaster and nature campaigner claims Labour’s attack on wildlife in push for economic growth is ‘PR disaster’

Bats are being “scapegoated” by Rachel Reeves, Chris Packham has said, after the chancellor suggested the winged creatures were getting in the way of economic growth.

Reeves recently said she wanted businesses to “focus on getting things built, and stop worrying about the bats and the newts”, and this week the press release announcing her shake-up of all the UK’s regulators mentioned bats six times. A very niche directive to Natural England, the nature watchdog, to take advice from the Bat Conservation Trust out of a planning document, became the linchpin of Reeves’s deregulation plan.

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Subsidiaries of two publicly-listed Thai companies have partnered to develop a mangrove reforestation project aimed at generating blue carbon credits, the companies announced this week.

Campaigners welcome long-delayed proposals to reduce pesticide-related harms to pollinators

The use of pesticides on UK farms is to be reduced by 10% by 2030 under government plans to protect bees and other pollinators.

Campaigners welcomed the news, but said they were disappointed that the target applied only to arable farms and not to urban areas and parks.

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Marine engineering company Seatrium, formed from the bones of a dissolved Keppel and Sembcorp, is bullish on renewables, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and ammonia while seeing a central place for hydrocarbons in the energy transition.

Four Japanese companies have been selected to help advance a digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system for the country's carbon offset programme.

Most of the carbon absorbed by land over the past three decades has ended up in non-living reservoirs rather than in growing trees and plants, according to a study that challenges previous models of Earth’s carbon cycle.

Thanks to breathtaking negligence, the liquid fertiliser used to help grow our food bubbles with a lethal cocktail of toxins

If humanity has an epitaph, it might read something like this: “Knackered by the things we missed.” It is true that several existential threats are widely known and widely discussed. But some of the greatest dangers we face appear on almost no one’s radar.

How often have you thought about this one: spreading sewage sludge on farmland? I would guess very few would include it in their top civilisational hazards. Despite the best efforts of a handful of us, it trundles on, unknown to most. Surprising as it may seem, new research suggests that it could help call time on us.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Saudi oil major Aramco has launched Saudi Arabia’s first CO2 direct air capture (DAC) test unit, with a capacity to remove 12 tonnes of CO2 per year, it has announced.

The New Zealand Unit (NZU) spot price fell by 2.5% on Friday in the wake of this week’s declined auction, as the government updated free allocation settings to one of its biggest emitters.

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Proposed hydropower dams will likely cut a small swathe through several active and proposed REDD+ projects in Cambodia, but its operator says it is too early to say how the work will impact carbon credit issuance.

Australia’s only silicon manufacturer has been awarded funding from the Albanese Labor government, to help decarbonise its operations.

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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has opened a second round of funding to support industrial decarbonisation valued at A$70 million ($44 mln).

Taiwan's environment ministry on Thursday approved a methodology that aims to create carbon sinks through soil management activities, expanding the number of domestically developed nature-based offset methodologies to five.

Kangaroos and wallabies are the only hopping species heavier than 5kg, and the small musky rat-kangaroo might help us learn why

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Scientists stalking a small marsupial through a remote Australian rainforest say they may have found a clue to the mystery of why its bigger kangaroo cousins hop instead of walk.

Kangaroos and closely related wallabies are the only large animals to hop upright on two legs, researchers from Australia’s Flinders University said Thursday, but why remains a mystery.

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Quinbrook's David Scaysbrook says the falling cost of solar and battery storage represents a tipping point for the energy industry. Plus: Big battery tender, gas and hydrogen news.

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