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The European Commission has opened public consultations on four draft pieces of secondary legislation under the EU's Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), a regulation adopted last year that sets aspiring targets for the production of "strategically important" clean technologies in the bloc.

Project providing subsidies to install solar batteries and electric appliances part of Labor deal with crossbenchers

Suburb-wide electrification trials are set to be rolled out across the country under an intervention designed to help spark the household transition from gas.

The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, has formally directed the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) to consider funding more pilots like Electrify 2515, a community-led initiative to electrify 500 homes in one postcode in Wollongong, NSW.

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The government of Nigeria must legalise carbon market regulations soon in order to boost investor confidence and promote participation, according to experts at a recent stakeholders’ consultation.

A London-based investor announced Monday it has raised an additional £27 million ($33.7 mln) to advance investments in nature-based solutions and biodiversity net gain (BNG) projects across the UK.

A France-based agronomic research agency has introduced a free software tool to help countries in the Global South map deforestation risks and meet REDD+ carbon credit certification requirements.

European carbon prices began the week with a move lower as bearish traders sought to impose their views but ran into stubborn defence at technical levels, while natural gas prices eased back as the supply outlook improved even as EU storage levels fell to around 15% below the same time last year.

Stockholm Exergi will receive over SEK 20 billion (€1.74 bln) from a reverse government auction for its Stockholm biomass co-generation plant, which aims to become the EU's first running on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), the company announced on Monday.

Complaint says Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie Dark Waters continues to pollute West Virginia river

The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges.

It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.

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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) now expects the decision on which cookstove methodologies will qualify for its Core Carbon Principles (CCP) quality label to be published by the end of March, several months after initially planned.

The pilot phase of Vietnam's domestic carbon market will start in June after the government issued a decree greenlighting the scheme.

In the wake of the monumental decision to finalise Article 6 rules at COP29, the world now cannot afford for the new UN crediting mechanism to fail, but seeing it through will not be easy, according to an international carbon markets veteran.

Norway’s largest waste-to-energy plant located in Oslo has resumed construction on its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility, which aims to generate credits for the voluntary carbon market (VCM), the company announced on Monday.

The Italian government continues to incentivise programmes for gas and operators of liquefied natural gas, pursuing a path that researchers consider out of step with market reality.

A proposed mangrove methodology under Taiwan's voluntary carbon scheme has met with criticism from scholars and environmental groups, amid concerns over its potential negative impacts and exaggerated carbon sequestration benefit.

The whale was seen following the boat as it approached Bundeena wharf on Monday, a sighting the ferry company manager, Christine Hack, called 'very rare'. Dr Vanessa Pirotta, a wildlife scientist at Macquarie University, said she and other experts had identified the creature as likely to be a juvenile Antarctic minke whale, and that spotting one in Sydney’s warm waters was very unusual

• ‘Very rare’ sighting of juvenile Antarctic minke whale off Sydney coast

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Paris has made initial suggestions for reforming the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and is planning to gather further input in the coming weeks with a view to preventing carbon leakage – or relocation of industries abroad to avoid the EU’s CO2 pricing policies.

Scientists unsure what prompted juvenile whale to leave icy southern waters for warmer shallows, but ‘it may be a case of mis-navigation’

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A young Antarctic minke whale has treated ferry passengers to a rare spectacle after surfacing beside a wharf to the south of Sydney.

Christine Hack, the manager of Cronulla and National Park Ferry Cruises, which manages the Cronulla ferry, said the whale began following the vessel as it approached Bundeena wharf at about 10am on Monday.

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A major forestry group in Japan has teamed up with a local financial institution to set up a subsidiary to expand its reforestation business and earn credits under the domestic carbon offset scheme, it announced Monday.

Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks

Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests, a study has found.

Researchers surveying nests for the harmful chemical found in pet flea treatments found that it was present in every single nest. The scientists from the University of Sussex are now calling for the government to urgently reassess the environmental risk of pesticides used in flea and tick treatments and consider restricting their use.

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Clean energy additions and slower industrial power demand growth may lead to a fall in China's emissions from the power sector this year, even though government's stimulus efforts could complicate the emissions outlook, according to a report published Monday.