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Japanese shipping giant Mitsui OSK Lines (MOL) is well on track to reach its 2030 emissions reduction target and met its 2023 goal without using any carbon credits, according to the latest company data.

Vietnam confirmed Thursday it is on track to finalise the set-up of its pilot emissions trading scheme, with the initial phase to include 100 companies across the thermal power, iron, and steel production industries, with a trading platform due next year.

Malaysia is expecting rapidly rising carbon emissions from its steel sector, which is expanding utilising CO2-intensive equipment that could put its climate targets at risk while imposing bigger costs under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).

Current climate policies imply a high risk for tipping Earth resources, even if the temperature increase returns to below 1.5C after a period of overshoot - but these could be minimised if warming is swiftly reversed, according to a study published on Thursday.

My daily dips were a game-changer for my mental health. Now I’m suing the water company that’s deprived me of them

Six years ago, I was living in the Midlands, about as far away from the sea as you can get. But during a week of walking from Poole to Lyme Regis, I fell in love with that vast blue space and its ability to restore my mind and body. I went home, handed in my notice, put my house on the market and within a few months I was living in Exmouth, Devon – a stone’s throw from the most beautiful beach, almost two miles of unbroken golden sand.

I still remember my first outdoor swimming experience, in Exmouth’s sheltered Pirate Cove – how I felt as the cold began to creep up from my toes. Endorphins coursed through me. I was buzzing, grinning, full of joy, and from that moment I was hooked. I began to swim daily.

Jo Bateman is a retired physiotherapist. She lives in Exmouth, Devon, and swims in the sea all year round

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A startup holding several CCS MoUs with Japanese companies has been awarded two offshore greenhouse gas storage permits by the Australian government after being approved for work programmes worth over A$270 million ($176 mln).

At its recent summit, Lula gave the G20 a chance to show its commitment to real change – and Britain can take the lead

Last week the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shattered the mould of G20 meetings. In using the annual summit as a launchpad for a new effort to tackle hunger and extreme poverty, he has provided the world with a chance – a last chance – to breathe new life into a moribund sustainable development goal (SDG) agenda. He has handed the G20 a cause that could halt its slide into irrelevance.

For the UK, the creation of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty represents an opportunity to restore a deeply tarnished reputation on international development.

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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has listed Gold Standard's Verified Emission Reductions (GS-VERs) on its voluntary marketplace Core Climate, it announced Thursday.

Australia needs to act quickly or lose out to faster movers on green iron and steel elsewhere, an industry decarbonisation expert warns.

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We undertook a global survey of business leaders, including Australian businesses, and the findings on decarbonisation should be cause for concern.

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Cornwall Wildlife Trust initiative aims to benefit creatures from upland marsh fritillaries to seahorses in St Austell Bay

A Cornish conservation charity has launched an ambitious rewilding project intended to benefit creatures from marsh fritillary butterflies living high on the moor to long-snouted seahorses in seagrass in a bay five miles away.

The Tor to Shore project will stretch from Helman Tor, a reserve topped with a granite boulder summit near Bodmin, to St Austell Bay via the tumbling River Par, its idea to improve a landscape at scale.

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Big nuclear unit in Texas trips after a fire, and the state's growing battery fleet reacts to keep the grid stable. Who knew nuclear needs backup?

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BloombergNEF says most aspects of Australia's green energy transition are happening too slow, and it has mixed forecasts on storage, solar and wind.

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Japanese government confirms it will allow whalers to catch and kill up to 59 fin whales, a species conservationists consider vulnerable

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The Australian government is “deeply disappointed” by Japan’s decision to add the world’s second-largest whale species to the list of species its commercial whale hunters will target.

Tanya Plibersek, the environment minister, attacked Japan’s decision to hunt fin whales – the world’s second-longest whale and considered vulnerable.

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ASX-listed BIPV innovator inks deal that will see its clear solar glass products made and sold in the Middle East, North Africa and India.

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Zen Energy helps power Australia’s first 100 per cent renewable media organisation in a deal tied to the 227MW Collector wind farm.

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China's environment ministry on Wednesday evening announced it had approved, in principle, a draft allocation plan that will determine the supply-demand dynamics in the national emissions market over the 2023-24 period.

Eight new shoots have been discovered emerging from the base of the felled tree on Hadrian's Wall.

Efforts by First Nations groups to thin dense forest regrowth have come under fire in Victoria. The solution isn’t to restore “wilderness” – it’s to manage Country. Jack Pascoe, Research fellow in ecology and land management, The University of Melbourne Patrick Baker, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne Tom Fairman, Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Air-gun and catapult attacks have been blamed for another decline in swans on the River Thames.