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The New Zealand government will dramatically cut the volume of NZUs available at auction from next year, and will maintain the auction price floor, in line with the Climate Change Commission’s recommendations, it announced Tuesday.

Cities have a large and mostly untapped power source: the rooftops of commercial buildings. Bruce Mountain, Professor and Director, Victoria Energy Policy Centre, Victoria University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Study finds ‘statistically significant association’ between exposure to fine particles in coalmine fire smoke and aging of lungs, equal to 4.7 years

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Retired secondary school teacher Howard Williams remembers watching “a gumtree literally explode from the heat”.

It was the beginning of the Hazelwood coalmine fire, which broke out on 9 February 2014 in the middle of a hot, dry summer.

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A handful of trades kept the voluntary carbon market ticking over last week, with the slim pickings mostly confined to low-volume deals, as brokers grow more inclined to promote two-way markets to attract corporate interest.

A handful of trades kept the voluntary carbon market ticking over last week, with the slim pickings mostly confined to low-volume deals, as brokers grow more inclined to promote two-way markets to attract corporate interest.

Germany’s coalition government has agreed a diminished draft budget for its national climate and energy transition fund for 2025, and attracted criticism for optimistic assumptions about emissions trading revenue.

They threaten our drinking water and refuse to budge. But non-lethal methods are the only advisable ways to deal with the infestation

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There are eight pigeons living on my shed roof. That itself is a small victory: it has taken two years, 60 metres of anti-bird mesh, daily patrolling for and disposing of eggs and countless hours running around waving a rake to get them out of the shed. They nested in our hay, ruining the top row of bales. They pooed on everything. When we purchased this property, we inherited piles of guano half a foot deep. We haven’t yet relaxed enough to remove the drop cloths.

Now the pigeons are sitting on the eaves, clogging up the gutters (which also supply our drinking water) with poo, and pooing in the stock troughs. When my horse was hospitalised with gastroenteritis, I blamed the pigeons until my vet said that while they do carry salmonella (wonderful!), Mickey would likely be much sicker if he’d caught something from them.

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A network of battery-backed mini solar farms installed on Australia's commercial and industrial rooftops could help usher out coal, and remove the need for big transmission upgrades.

The post Business power: Batteries and solar could help kick out coal with less new transmission, if price is right appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A carbon standard's biochar registry has received a conditional endorsement from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), the industry trade group announced on Monday.

Carbon Pulse rounds up developments in Latin American and Caribbean carbon markets for the fortnight ending Aug. 18, which saw state actors make increasingly hands-on interventions in the domestic and regional voluntary carbon market (VCM).

A global insurance broker and risk advisor has announced the launch of a new insurance solution for the transport and storage of CO2.

The Colombian ministry of environment has announced an agreement with the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to value their contribution and strengthen their participation in conserving and restoring the rainforest in the lead-up to the COP16 UN biodiversity talks.

European carbon prices advanced on Monday morning as demand from coal-fired generation was said to be picking up amid a shift in relative margins from gas to coal for some delivery periods, while energy prices also firmed as gas traders continued to fret over storage levels that are now below 2023 levels.

A Seattle-headquartered forestry firm will issue 100,000 improved forest management (IFM) carbon credits in 2024, according to the company’s Q2 results.

A carbon ratings agency has partnered with a bank to “bring transparency to carbon markets in the UAE”, the two companies said on Monday.

A direct air capture and storage (DACS) project has launched in France, boasting high energy efficiency and representing the first onshore CO2 removal project of its kind in the EU, the developers claim.

Shanghai Electric’s latest alkaline electrolyser will help to improve the economics of green hydrogen by being more energy efficient, boasting a higher production rate, an executive told Carbon Pulse.

An interactive entertainment company has purchased the first batch of biodiversity credits generated through a nature restoration project in the UK at approximately £50 per unit, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A group of six organisations, including Japanese shipping firm  Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL), have come together to launch a feasibility study on the production and use of biomethane from animal manure in order to fuel the country’s factories and vessels, a statement released Monday said.

A Qatar-based organisation has launched a new platform to host the auctioning of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs), it said Monday.