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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.

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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.

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.

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.