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Multiple gulf states have adopted domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions pricing or reporting schemes over the past year, reflecting coordinated efforts to reduce the carbon intensity of their economies, market participants said at Carbon Forward Middle East in Abu Dhabi.

Sentiment in the Chinese carbon market has fallen off a cliff in recent days after the completion of the annual compliance deadline, with permits trading below 95 yuan ($12.96) over the past week.

Region hit by strong winds, flash flooding and giant hailstones, causing one death and widespread power cuts

Severe thunderstorms have been wreaking havoc across eastern Australia this week, unleashing heavy rain, strong winds, flash flooding and giant hailstones.

In some regions there were wind gusts of more than 100mph (160km/h) and strong winds caused operational disruptions at Sydney airport as well as extensive damage nearby, including roofs being torn off buildings. An 80-year-old man died after a tree fell on his car in New South Wales, and several other injuries have been recorded. The storms also triggered lightning strikes, leading to widespread power outages that affected more than 200,000 homes and suspending rail services.

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Shopify spent $36.3 million on carbon removal (CDR) in 2024, increasing its total commitment to $83.9 million, the e-commerce company announced on Thursday.

The world looks close to adding 20% new carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) capacity in 2025, a leading energy consultancy said this week, calling it the “largest annual increase to date”.

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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The UK’s drive to decarbonise most of its electricity grid by 2030 has been given added impetus after Norway, a main fossil fuel exporter to the UK, warned that production will start declining before the end of the decade.

Growth in China's thermal power generation in 2024 slowed from the previous year, buy annual production of coal and gas both reached new record highs, according to government data published Friday.

A huge private bathhouse is found after lying hidden for 2,000 years under volcanic rock and ash.

Indonesia’s first international sale of carbon credits on its national exchange next week has been hailed as an exciting development for the country’s market, but observers have raised concerns that there could be a lack of interested buyers for a multitude of reasons.

Switzerland has opened a funding round worth CHF 100 million (€106 mln) to develop carbon removal projects in the country, the government announced Thursday.

A Seoul-headquartered intergovernmental organisation has initiated a $20 million methane mitigation programme to drive down emissions in Southeast Asia.

Another delay to highly anticipated cap-and-trade rulemaking jolted California Carbon Allowances (CCA) prices in the secondary market briefly to near three-year lows on Tuesday, with volatility driving up option prices.

Experts criticise Defra’s decision not to use OECD definition of PFAS, with one asking if move is ‘politically based’

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Leading scientists have criticised the UK government for failing to take stronger action to tackle “forever chemical” pollution and refusing to match moves in the EU to ban non-essential uses of the substances.

Last year, 59 experts in per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) sent a letter to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) asking it to follow the science, which has established that PFAS do not biodegrade and that despite variations in toxicity, this persistence itself is sufficiently worrying that all PFAS should be regulated as one class.

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Scientists say frog’s journey shows difficulty of spotting insects or fungi spread by global plant trade

A tiny tree frog hitchhiking in a bunch of roses to Sheffield from Colombia has inspired a study into invasive species reaching the UK’s shores.

Dr Silviu Petrovan, a researcher in the University of Cambridge’s zoology department and a senior author of a paper published today in the journal BioScience, had his interest piqued when he was asked to identify a live frog found in roses in a florist’s shop in Sheffield.

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Report criticises ‘slow progress’ on industry regulation, amid record fish mortality and concerns over welfare and environmental pollution

The Scottish government has been criticised for its “slow progress” on regulating the salmon farming industry by a parliamentary inquiry that took evidence for five months before reaching its conclusion.

The report reveals that MSPs “seriously considered” calling for a moratorium on new farms and expansion of existing sites due to concerns over persistently high salmon mortality rates but did not do so due to uncertainties over the impact on jobs and communities.

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Data for 2024 shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather

Wildfires that blazed around the world in 2024 helped to drive a record annual leap in carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, surprising scientists. The data shows humanity is moving yet deeper into a dangerous world of supercharged extreme weather.

The CO2 level at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii jumped by 3.6 parts per million (ppm) to 427ppm, far above the 280ppm level before the large-scale burning of fossil fuels sparked the climate crisis. The Mauna Loa observations, known as the Keeling curve, began in 1958 and are the longest running direct measurements of CO2.

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Google signed a second large biochar carbon removal deal Thursday, buying 100,000 tonnes of CO2 through 2030 from a California-based developer.

ASX-listed battery materials hopeful Novonix says it has raised well in excess of the $5 million target the company had originally hoped for.

The post Brisbane-based battery upstart celebrates “heavily oversubscribed” share purchase plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Allied Green Ammonia celebrate signing the “monumental deal” with Plug Power that will form the core of its huge green hydrogen-to-ammonia plant in the NT.

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