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Stockholm Exergi will receive over SEK 20 billion (€1.74 bln) from a reverse government auction for its Stockholm biomass co-generation plant, which aims to become the EU's first running on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), the company announced on Monday.

Complaint says Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie Dark Waters continues to pollute West Virginia river

The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges.

It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.

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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) now expects the decision on which cookstove methodologies will qualify for its Core Carbon Principles (CCP) quality label to be published by the end of March, several months after initially planned.

The pilot phase of Vietnam's domestic carbon market will start in June after the government issued a decree greenlighting the scheme.

In the wake of the monumental decision to finalise Article 6 rules at COP29, the world now cannot afford for the new UN crediting mechanism to fail, but seeing it through will not be easy, according to an international carbon markets veteran.

Norway’s largest waste-to-energy plant located in Oslo has resumed construction on its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility, which aims to generate credits for the voluntary carbon market (VCM), the company announced on Monday.

The Italian government continues to incentivise programmes for gas and operators of liquefied natural gas, pursuing a path that researchers consider out of step with market reality.

A proposed mangrove methodology under Taiwan's voluntary carbon scheme has met with criticism from scholars and environmental groups, amid concerns over its potential negative impacts and exaggerated carbon sequestration benefit.

The whale was seen following the boat as it approached Bundeena wharf on Monday, a sighting the ferry company manager, Christine Hack, called 'very rare'. Dr Vanessa Pirotta, a wildlife scientist at Macquarie University, said she and other experts had identified the creature as likely to be a juvenile Antarctic minke whale, and that spotting one in Sydney’s warm waters was very unusual

• ‘Very rare’ sighting of juvenile Antarctic minke whale off Sydney coast

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Paris has made initial suggestions for reforming the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) and is planning to gather further input in the coming weeks with a view to preventing carbon leakage – or relocation of industries abroad to avoid the EU’s CO2 pricing policies.

Scientists unsure what prompted juvenile whale to leave icy southern waters for warmer shallows, but ‘it may be a case of mis-navigation’

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A young Antarctic minke whale has treated ferry passengers to a rare spectacle after surfacing beside a wharf to the south of Sydney.

Christine Hack, the manager of Cronulla and National Park Ferry Cruises, which manages the Cronulla ferry, said the whale began following the vessel as it approached Bundeena wharf at about 10am on Monday.

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A major forestry group in Japan has teamed up with a local financial institution to set up a subsidiary to expand its reforestation business and earn credits under the domestic carbon offset scheme, it announced Monday.

Exclusive: Chemical in treatment for pet fleas and ticks is found in nests of blue and great tits, killing chicks

Songbird chicks are being killed by high levels of pesticides in the pet fur used by their parents to line their nests, a study has found.

Researchers surveying nests for the harmful chemical found in pet flea treatments found that it was present in every single nest. The scientists from the University of Sussex are now calling for the government to urgently reassess the environmental risk of pesticides used in flea and tick treatments and consider restricting their use.

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Clean energy additions and slower industrial power demand growth may lead to a fall in China's emissions from the power sector this year, even though government's stimulus efforts could complicate the emissions outlook, according to a report published Monday.

Royal Botanic Gardens scientists are heading to the Victorian national park in search of plant survivors amid the charred landscape

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The Grampians globe-pea, a critically endangered wiry shrub, had finished flowering and was fruiting when fires tore through its home in the Grampians national park, in western Victoria. The spiny plant with vibrant orange and yellow flowers is extremely rare and restricted to a handful of sites, including areas within the 76,000 hectares that burned over December and January.

Finding the globe-pea will be a priority when a plant rescue mission led by Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria heads to the Grampians to search for survivors and signs of life amid the charred landscape.

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Chancellor expected to unveil new building projects and revise planning rules to stimulate UK economy

Rachel Reeves has given her strongest hint yet that she will back a third runway at Heathrow airport, arguing that she is willing to make difficult decisions while pursuing economic growth.

The chancellor is poised to make a significant speech this week where she will outline her plans to boost the British economy by radically altering planning rules and accelerating building projects.

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Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 is humanity’s only hope of achieving climate security. It’s time to think deeply about our chances of getting there. Nick Rowley, Honorary Associate Professor, The Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Accepting change in the aftermath of natural disasters is hard. But long-term survival may require embracing managed retreat rather than repeated rebuilds. Anthony Richardson, Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director, Te Puna Ako Centre for Tertiary Teaching and Learning, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work

Build baby, build. That’s about the intellectual limit of the government’s housing strategy. Millions are under-housed, so let’s “bulldoze” the planning system and build more homes. But it’s not nearly so simple.

As soon as anyone challenges the policy, the government brands them a nimby – another of the crude truncations that pass for debate on this issue: nimbys versus yimbys. So before I go further, let me state that I want to see lots of new social and genuinely affordable housing built as part of a massive programme to solve the worst housing crisis of any wealthy country. I’ve been making similar calls for years, not least in the report I co-authored for the Labour party in 2019: Land for the Many. I oppose Labour’s current approach for a different reason. It will fail.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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Chancellor says runway would mean fewer planes circling London, and points to moves towards sustainable flying

Rachel Reeves has indicated her support for building a third runway at Heathrow airport, arguing that it would have environmental benefits such as fewer planes circling London.

Ahead of a major speech on economic growth this coming week, the chancellor made the case for Heathrow expansion and said there was “huge investment” in more sustainable aviation.

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