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Shareholders submitted a record number of biodiversity-related resolutions this year, though most of them have been blocked due to the opposition of some of the world's biggest asset managers, an NGO has said.

A Boston-headquartered startup has raised $2.3 million to generate carbon offsets from methane emissions avoided by diverting edible food from landfills, the company announced on Monday.

A multinational professional services firm has joined forces with an ocean-based carbon removal developer to help build a large-scale facility.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s influence on the global nature agenda may be limited, with policy leaders in areas such as Europe continuing to strengthen action on biodiversity risks unabated, according to experts.

Former MP astonished that taxpayers are ‘literally paying’ to cut down forests sustaining koalas and greater gliders and providing clean drinking water

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Two reports revealing the extent of financial losses from native forest logging in New South Wales raise questions about the economic viability of the industry.

The state government’s forestry corporation “consistently made a loss” by paying contractors more for harvesting and haulage than it earned from delivery of timber to sawmills, a NSW Independent Pricing and Review Tribunal (Ipart) report found.

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Biodiversity credit markets have the potential to finance African smallholders' transition towards sustainable practices and help them meet new regulations such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the vice president of a Nairobi-headquartered organisation told Carbon Pulse.

A Qatar-based organisation has announced it will hold two auctions early next year for international carbon credits eligible for Article 6 trade.

A Newcastle-headquartered software consultancy and a London-based property investment company have purchased the second batch of voluntary biodiversity credits generated through a nature restoration project in England.

Academics have contradicted claims that companies buying carbon credits decarbonise faster than others, although their paper is still not peer reviewed.

A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.

Current decision-making has largely failed to consider the interlinkages between the ongoing crises in biodiversity, climate change, water, food, and health, with unaccounted-for costs estimated at up to $25 trillion per year, according to a landmark report released Tuesday by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).

A German investment firm will offset its Scopes 1-3 emissions through a partnership with Canadian voluntary carbon project developer, it announced Monday.

The carbon removal (CDR) sector is facing an inflection point, with rising delivery delays, funding slowdowns, and a hyper-concentrated buyer market, according to new research.

A Tokyo-based firm will soon list J-Blue credits on its carbon credit exchange in a bid to provide high quality credits to the market, it announced Tuesday.

A Swiss energy firm has acquired a minority stake in a hydrogen-biochar startup, the two companies announced Monday.

Pro-nuclear countries say it is “premature” to consider a renewable energy target as part of talks over the EU’s climate goal for 2040, with Paris and Stockholm instead pushing for a low-carbon objective that also brings nuclear power into the picture.

The start date for what is to be Australia’s largest electric smelter furnace to make clean iron has been pushed back by a year and will initially use natural gas for power rather than renewable energy as originally intended.

Including carbon removals in the EU Emissions Trading System before 2040 risks exacerbating oversupply that has plagued the market, a think tank warned on Tuesday, urging the European Commission not to include any such units before then.

The free allocation of New Zealand Units (NZUs) to methanol producer Methanex could be keeping its facility afloat, but is distorting the dynamics of the country’s emissions trading scheme, a report said Tuesday.