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A new forest carbon standard is looking to take an area-based model to how it generates revenue, rather than being paid for how many credits it issues to a project, and will require transparent benefit sharing among all project stakeholders to ensure community approval.

Study finds carbon credits could raise billions for climate action but only with changes, such as rigorous standards

The carbon-credit market must reform or “go out of business”, leading scientists have concluded in an international review of the offsetting industry.

The market for carbon offsets shrank dramatically last year after a series of scientific and media reports found many offsetting schemes had little environmental impact.

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Statutory nuisance complaint lodged by Save Windermere against United Utilities is a first over sewage pollution

Campaigners fighting to stop sewage discharges into Windermere, the Lake District’s largest lake, have made a statutory nuisance complaint against a water company in the first legal action of its kind.

The civil complaints are normally used in noise disputes, or over noxious smells. But the environmental barrister Nicholas Ostrowski has for the first time lodged a complaint on behalf of campaign group Save Windermere against United Utilities over raw sewage discharges into the lake.

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Environmentalists to protest approval of expansion of Gina Rinehart coal seam gas field in same region that a solar farm was rejected just weeks ago.

The post Rinehart gas project expansion approved by Plibersek, sparks koala death fears appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Simply divesting  from fossil fuel companies is a poor tactic in the transition to net zero, an Australian pension fund said Wednesday after being criticised for walking back its exclusion policy on coal.

The government of Indonesia has formed a partnership with a US-based philanthropy to restore nature and biodiversity by safeguarding 15 million hectares of rainforest in the Southeast Asian country.

Facing accusations from Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young that the approval of a Senex Energy coal seam gas project would threaten koala habitat, Labor senator Penny Wong defended the move, saying the approval comes with 'strict limits on habitat loss'

• Gina Rinehart-backed company gets approval from Tanya Plibersek for coal seam gas project

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A voluntary carbon standard plans to issue its first batch of biodiversity credits generated through two separate projects in Latin America by the end of the year, a company executive told Carbon Pulse.

Nuclear power stations produce high-level radioactive waste. It is dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years — and so far, the world has failed to deliver a safe, permanent storage method. Rosemary Hill, Adjunct Professor, James Cook University Ian Lowe, Emeritus Professor, School of Environment and Science, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Indonesia’s Pertamina has signed an agreement with Japan’s NYK Line to establish a ship management company as well as collaborate on liquified carbon dioxide (LCO2) and LNG transportation.

Researchers say they have a possible solution for perovskite solar cell instability that could jettison the technology from lab to market: a new way of designing the cell itself.

The post Doping 3D perovskites could be way to add durability, efficiency appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia must heed Pacific calls for a more ambitious climate strategy as the region faces an existential threat, a former environmental lawyer turned Greens senator says.

The post New Greens senator, former head of Greenpeace Australia, wants more climate ambition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Squadron Energy says AEMO's plan for the national grid reinforces the need to roll out new solar and wind capacity "at speed" – and the huge risks if we don't.

The post Don’t stop now: Forrest’s Squadron urges speedy green switch as ISP signals end of baseload appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The 600 MW wind farm is the first of four large projects planned in partnership with a newly formed Macquarie offshoot.

The post Macquarie partner Green Wind unveils biggest wind project in the west appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Global demand for renewable energy is surging so why make solar panels, wind turbines and EVs dearer for western consumers?

With historic heatwaves sweeping across the US and other parts of the northern hemisphere, June is expected to be the 13th consecutive month of record-breaking global temperatures. The primary cause, of course, is the enormous amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Despite the existential threat posed by rising atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, emissions continue to increase at a faster pace than previously anticipated.

On one front, however, progress in the fight against the climate crisis has exceeded expectations. Amid the global shift from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles and the accelerated adoption of solar and wind power, demand for renewable energy is rapidly rising in the US and the EU.

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Anglo-Australian miner BHP is on track to achieve a 30% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030, but says technology challenges mean its progress to reaching net zero emissions by 2050 will not be linear.

If Australia wants to maintain the world-heritage status of the Great Barrier Reef – indeed, if it wants to preserve the reef at all – we must act now to prevent more coral deaths. Jane Williamson, Professor in Marine Fisheries Ecology, Macquarie University Karen Joyce, Associate Professor - Remote sensing and geospatial technology, James Cook University Vincent Raoult, Senior lecturer in marine ecology, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A 335 MW wind farm cleared for development by NSW is now waiting on federal environmental approval, after a decision on the project was delayed for a second time.

The post Federal decision on contested Hunter Valley wind farm with state approval delayed again appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Advisory committee members opposed the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) plans to allow for-profit companies to implement projects supported by Community Climate Investment (CCI) under the Climate Protection Program (CPP), at a meeting Tuesday.

Mining has not been particularly lucrative for New Zealand. It makes little economic sense to focus on digging for minerals, despite claims the new mines will aid in the country’s green transition. Glenn Banks, Professor of Geography, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.