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Ten financial institutions have invested more than $1.7 billion between 2021 and 2023 in two meatpacking companies allegedly associated with deforestation in Paraguay's Gran Chaco, according to an NGO investigation.

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has raised concerns over the alarming increase in land aridification registered in the past few decades, as pressure has mounted on negotiators in Ryhad to seek solutions to the ongoing crisis.

Neoen, Edify, Lightsource bp, newcomer Elgin Energy and Andrew Forrest share most of the spoils of the largest wind and solar tender ever held in Australia.

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A startup with an electrochemical method of removing CO2 from water claims it can simultaneously reduce the energy requirement and cost of desalination, with potential for significant mitigation were it to scale up.

Alastair Matcott worked on a project that provided free energy audits and free renewable energy upgrades for private renters and investors. But it failed because they were stonewalled by real estate companies and industry bodies.

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European carbon prices posted a modest gain at midday, tracking movements in front-month natural gas and fluctuating between two key options strike prices, as the market positioned itself ahead of Wednesday's options expiry.

Australia is set to get a new, low-carbon steel mill in Queensland built by one of the nation’s largest steel suppliers, who buys from local and international sources.

Some 29 jurisdictions, totalling more than €75 trillion of banking assets, have started reflecting nature-related considerations in their regulations, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said in a report.

Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable

A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe, a new report suggests.

Just as importantly, the filter’s production appears to be scalable, the University of Wuhan study authors said in the paper, which was peer-reviewed and published in the journal Science Advances. That would address a problem that has stymied the use of previous microplastic filtration systems that were successful in controlled settings, but could not be scaled up.

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The deployment of balancing power generation technologies such as flexible gas-fired plants and energy storage, alongside renewables, could slash cumulative power system costs by €65 trillion and cut carbon emissions by 21% by 2050, according to a new report.

Market experts see significant potential in crediting the reduction of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions linked to grid expansion in the power sector and the clean energy transition, with a German government-backed initiative also looking at the role of carbon finance in the relatively untapped field of mitigation.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)'s quality assessment process has been put under the spotlight after current and former experts of the stakeholder initiative's expert panel warned that three recently-approved REDD methodologies could produce “large volumes” of over-crediting.

A carbon capture technology developer has partnered with a carbon storage provider to offer an integrated solution for reducing industrial emissions, the two companies announced on Tuesday.

The total carbon footprint of mining and refining critical raw materials (CRMs) is set to skyrocket 155% by 2035 if no action is taken to reduce environmental impact – but the carbon savings enabled by CRMs outweigh those emissions by a factor of 80, according to a new study.

Poland is preparing to take over the EU’s six-month rotating presidency at a time of war, the country’s minister of state assets told an EU audience on Monday, saying “immediate security considerations” should take precedence over climate in these troubled times.

A Tokyo-based climate tech company has acquired a software firm to streamline emissions data collection and improve the accuracy of primary data, it announced Tuesday.

The Australian government is seeking feedback on how carbon credit methodologies that have not been taken up should be retired.

Interviews with dog walkers reveals fresh insights into why people choose to keep their dog on lead, or not. Changing that behaviour depends on meeting the needs of both pet owners and their dogs. Jasmin Packer, Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation, University of Adelaide Anna Chur-Hansen, Professor of Psychology, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Government should point to evidence of FSA licensing of additive, says chair of environment and climate change committee

The government must urgently reassure consumers that feed additives given to cattle to reduce methane emissions are harmless, and a vital tool in tackling the climate crisis, the chair of an influential parliamentary committee has warned.

Lady Sheehan, chair of the environment and climate change committee of the House of Lords, called on ministers to step up as a row has blown up over the prospective use of the additive Bovaer in British dairy herds supplying Arla, the dairy company.

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Just days after Peter Dutton pledged to scrap offshore wind zones and "rip up contracts," Victoria is forging ahead with plans to connect the nation's first projects.

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