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An analysis of recent transactions under five voluntary biodiversity credit frameworks has found that prices vary massively, ranging from $7 to $41,000 per unit for a 100-year conservation period, with average rates expected to surge in the coming years.

Buyers of biodiversity credits should purchase multiple units at once to overcome the issue of some single initiatives not offering actual nature uplift, a researcher has said.

The EU and Greece will invest a combined €4.3 billion in protecting the ocean and marine biodiversity, and promoting sustainability, they announced at the 9th Our Ocean Conference in Athens.

European carbon allowance prices erased Monday's losses and resumed their upward march amid a continuation of short covering, as natural gas and power prices jumped sharply on Middle East tensions and interruptions in gas supply in both the US Gulf and North Sea.

An industry-led carbon accounting programme for financial institutions has teamed up with two of Brazil’s largest banks to promote measurement and disclosure of emissions from the Brazilian financial sector, according to an announcement Tuesday.

Loss of intensity and diversity of noises in ecosystems reflects an alarming decline in healthy biodiversity, say sound ecologists

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Sounds of the natural world are rapidly falling silent and will become “acoustic fossils” without urgent action to halt environmental destruction, international experts have warned.

As technology develops, sound has become an increasingly important way of measuring the health and biodiversity of ecosystems: our forests, soils and oceans all produce their own acoustic signatures. Scientists who use ecoacoustics to measure habitats and species say that quiet is falling across thousands of habitats, as the planet witnesses extraordinary losses in the density and variety of species. Disappearing or losing volume along with them are many familiar sounds: the morning calls of birds, rustle of mammals through undergrowth and summer hum of insects.

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Heavy rain likely to cause low yields in Britain and other parts of Europe, with drought in Morocco hitting imports

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The UK faces food shortages and price rises as extreme weather linked to climate breakdown causes low yields on farms locally and abroad.

Record rainfall has meant farmers in many parts of the UK have been unable to plant crops such as potatoes, wheat and vegetables during the key spring season. Crops that have been planted are of poor quality, with some rotting in the ground.

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Growth in China’s thermal power generation slowed in March with a sustained high level of coal output, while the pace in wind and hydropower generation accelerated, government data showed Tuesday.

Inconsistent laws and penalties for water theft in the Murray-Darling Basin make compliance and enforcement especially challenging. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Adam James Loch, Associate Professor, University of Adelaide David Adamson, Associate professor, Royal Agricultural University Mark Giancaspro, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Adelaide Michael Croft, Legal Researcher, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The Australian government will introduce legislation to establish national environmental protection and information bodies, but has split reforms that would strengthen laws underpinning them into a separate tranche.

The world’s main emissions trading association published new guidelines on Tuesday about how corporate buyers should use carbon credits as part of their decarbonisation pathways.

Building developers in England will be able to more easily address the biodiversity impacts of their projects and comply with the biodiversity net gain (BNG) mandate thanks to the launch today of a new BNG software, which helps companies understand the biodiversity impact of different building designs.

Tanya Plibersek says two new agencies will be established but a commitment to rewrite national environment laws has been pushed back

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The Albanese government has further delayed a commitment to rewrite Australia’s failing national environment laws.

The environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, said the government would introduce legislation in coming weeks to create two previously announced bodies – an environment protection agency and a second organisation called Environment Information Australia, which will provide public data on ecosystems, plants and animals.

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Germany’s international development agency GIZ and the Philippines Climate Change Commission on Tuesday announced the soft launch of a programme aimed at protecting, conserving, and rehabilitating biodiversity and natural carbon sinks in the Southeast Asian nation.

High-quality carbon credits could be a “potentially important” tool to incentivise investment in low-emissions hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and direct air capture (DAC) projects in order meet production targets required to achieve the world’s climate goals, a joint report released Tuesday found.

A major Japanese trading company has announced its participation in a large direct air capture (DAC) project in the US, as it continues to seek opportunities in the carbon removal sector.

Members of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) can reduce their decarbonisation costs by $800 billion by 2050 if they work together to build power interconnectors, hydrogen networks, and energy storage infrastructure, according to research published Tuesday.

Young sharks are gathering at a popular beach. Here’s why we should skip our fear response and go for wonder – and protection Olaf Meynecke, Research Fellow in Marine Science and Manager Whales & Climate Program, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Columbia Law School researchers identify 33 of the most pervasive myths about solar, wind and electric vehicles and rebut them using transparent, fact-based responses.

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Australia will soon have its first national, independent environment watchdog that can issue hundreds of millions in penalties, but Labor has delayed reform of EPBC Act.

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