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Capacity markets across Europe have allocated nearly €53 billion in public subsidies to fossil power plants since 2015, funded through a levy on energy bills aimed at ensuring the lights are kept on at all times, a new report published on Tuesday has revealed.

A major Canadian global asset manager announced Monday the third close of its forest fund designed to invest in sustainably managed forests for carbon sequestration.

A consumer defense group based in Brazil is taking a low-cost airline and a car rental firm to court over alleged greenwashing, a move it calls a first for the country.

The city of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County in Maryland had their respective lawsuits against several oil giants dismissed on Thursday, setting back the municipalities’ efforts to recover alleged damages they claimed were caused by the fossil fuel industry.

The owner of the biggest electric utility in the US says renewables and storage needed "right now" to meet demand and keep prices down.

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Brazil’s biofuels-based RenovaBio compliance carbon market is once again at the centre of controversy with the introduction of stricter penalties for fuel distributors that violate its ‘CBio’ credit purchase targets – which already placed smaller fuel distributors at a competitive disadvantage, according to a Brazilian RenovaBio researcher, sparking litigation.

Chris Bowen uses ministerial powers to direct ARENA to consider funding solar panels and home batteries following a deal with crossbenchers on Labor's Future Made in Australia legislation.

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Egypt’s ministry of environment on Sunday launched a guide in support of national afforestation goals that also include a mitigation component, local media reported.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Brazil's national development bank have signed a $1 million cooperation agreement to fund partnership projects aimed at restoring and sustainably managing public forests in the Amazon.

Senate Republicans in Pennsylvania reintroduced legislation Friday to repeal RGGI regulation as part of the new 2025-26 legislative session.

Give a bacteria-fungi biofilm access to sweetened tea and you can make not only kombucha – but a fibre vital to making clothing. Rajkishore Nayak, Associate Professor , RMIT University Vietnam Donna Cleveland, Associate Professor of Sustainable Design, RMIT University Vietnam Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An economic shift raises alarming questions about government vision, priorities and commitment to transformative policies

To hear Labour’s economic message, one might wonder if Downing Street has developed an unlikely admiration for Liz Truss. Given its focus on growth through cutting planning regulations, reducing welfare budgets and removing dissenting bureaucrats, some believe Labour is in danger of echoing not just the spirit but the substance of Ms Truss’s brief, ill-fated tenure. For a party that rose to power criticising the Tory right’s ideological misadventures, this shift in tone is striking.

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves may see Labour’s sinking poll ratings as reason to align with their opponents, adopting policies – like curbing legal challenges to planning decisions – few rightwingers would contest. In a speech later this week, Ms Reeves plans to give the go-ahead for a third runway at Heathrow, a divisive choice even within Labour that has earned support from the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch.

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Indecision and uncertainty continued to plague the voluntary carbon market after news broke that the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) may not decide on which cookstoves methodologies will qualify for the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) quality label until the end of March, while participants continued to digest the possible impact of US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.

Second human case of H5N1 bird flu caught on farm in West Midlands but risk to public remains very low, says UKHSA

A human case of highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected in England, authorities have said, as bird flu cases escalate across the country.

It is only the second symptomatic human case of H5N1 bird flu recorded in the UK, after the first was detected in 2022, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) said.

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The lead European Parliament negotiator on the EU's Green Claims Directive told Carbon Pulse she will push for climate neutrality claims based on carbon offsets to be allowed only for leading companies that need to tackle their “residual emissions” during final talks on the directive due to kick off this week.

Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems

Water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause, a study says.

Environmental scientists analysed the communications of the nine main water and sewerage companies in England, and compared them with a framework of 28 greenwashing tactics employed, researchers say, by the tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels and chemical industries.

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Around one-third of corporate emissions target outcomes set for 2020 lacked accountability, with limited transparency surrounding their outcomes, according to a recent study.

Several countries are on track to announce the ratification of the UN High Seas Treaty at two major ocean conferences in mid-2025, paving the way for the hard-fought agreement to come into force nearly two years after it opened for signature, a senior member at a large philanthropic organisation told Carbon Pulse.

An Asian shipping giant has halved its goal for retiring carbon removal (CDR) credits to 100,000 tonnes per year by 2030, due to the "immaturity" of the technology and market, it announced on Monday.

Latin America and the Caribbean are advancing Article 6 and voluntary carbon initiatives, seeing increased regional efforts to adapt and participate in these markets, according to various speakers and bulletins last week.