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A Swiss direct air company will require $9 billion to reach its gigatonne-scale ambitions by 2030, a senior figure at the company said on Thursday.

Study suggests hydrogel microparticles increase survival by 30% in bumblebees exposed to lethal doses of neonicotinoids

Scientists have developed a “vaccine” for bees against pesticides – and it appears to work, according to an initial study.

According to the findings, published in Nature Sustainability, hydrogel microparticles fed to bumblebees in sugar water caused a 30% higher survival rate in individuals exposed to lethal doses of neonicotinoids, and significantly milder symptoms in those exposed to lower doses that would not usually be lethal but can cause harm.

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A Canadian carbon removals (CDR) company announced Thursday it has received C$2.5 million ($1.8 mln) from two major banks.

Colombia’s finance ministry presented a draft financing bill this week that would almost triple the national carbon tax amid accusations that it remains too low to spur decarbonisation.

The G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy (GIB), led by the Brazilian government, launched 10 principles on Thursday covering topics such as inclusivity, location specificity, and traditional knowledge use.

Prospective employees in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) can expect competitive salaries in the small number of countries where it exists, according to a first-of-its kind survey of the sector, but the industry will need to grow rapidly in the coming years if it is to contribute to the world achieving its climate goals.

Rollout of pylons across countryside is cheaper and quicker way to integrate renewable electricity, says energy tsar

The government has ruled out burying electricity cables underground as part of its energy strategy, which will involve the unrolling of millions of pylons across the British countryside, Ed Miliband’s clean energy tsar has said.

Chris Stark, the former leader of the Climate Change Committee, now heads the government’s “mission control” department for decarbonising the grid by boosting renewable energy and building connections across the country.

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"From here Earth sure looks like a perfect world," said the first private citizen to perform a spacewalk

Clean cooking ITMO credits from a project in Malawi were bought on a trading platform this week and retired the same day, underlining demand for the burgeoning sovereign carbon market.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) will launch a call for grant proposals in 2025 in several regions after receiving €4 million from the EU, in an outreach that will complement its work on ‘data cubes’, an executive has said.

A fintech startup focused on creating financial instruments tied to voluntary carbon credits has announced a partnership with a global blockchain-based platform for buying, selling, and retiring units.

Innovations in battery manufacturing, such as use of a ‘dry process’ to make electrodes, will be key to reducing cost and lowering the environmental footprint of producing lithium-ion batteries to be in line with the EU’s new Batteries Regulation, say experts.

Australia’s Labor government has introduced its Guarantee of Origin bill to parliament as part of the Future Made in Australia (FMIA) policy that was recommended by a senate committee last week.

The world is still on track to be awash with oil by the end of the decade after global demand growth decelerated in the first half of 2024 to the lowest rate since 2020, the International Energy Agency (IEA) reported on Thursday.

A Chicago-headquartered financial services firm has launched a blockchain carbon credit platform for institutional buyers, it announced on Thursday.

A Tanzania-based developer has partnered with CreditNature to launch a biodiversity credit pilot in the Kilimanjaro region by the end of November, Carbon Pulse has learned.

European carbon allowance prices fell back in line with weaker energy markets on Thursday morning, as EUAs continued to fluctuate in their recent options-driven €2 range near a five-month low, with traders seeing little incentive for levels to break out.

A senior EU negotiatior on Article 6 of the Paris Agreement has warned against taking a short-term approach to developing the UN markets, saying this could damaging confidence in carbon pricing as a credible solution to tackle climate change.

Language in Senate defense bill is probably first step to shield widely used toxic F-gases from regulation

US lawmakers and the military are pushing for a new definition of toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” that would exclude a subclass of toxic compounds increasingly used across the economy and considered to be potent greenhouse gases.

Language included in the defense bill by the Senate armed services committee asks the military to detail how it uses fluorinated gases, or F-gases, stating that the committee is “interested in learning more about how the [department of defense] may or may not be impacted by the definition” of PFAS.

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A Singapore-headquartered biochar company and a Japanese developer specialising in methane reduction projects have been awarded a grant to reduce emissions from rice fields in the Philippines, they said in a joint statement.