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The Lao government is working on a decree to regulate the sale of forestry carbon credits to international buyers, with an initial draft likely to be ready around summer, local media reported Wednesday.

China has accelerated the work of adding cement to its national emissions trading scheme with the release of CO2 accounting guidelines, while it may take longer to include steelmakers amid data quality concerns.

Monitoring station detects predatory species using artificial intelligence and sends alert so nests can be traced

An early warning system designed to track and trace predatory Asian hornets using artificial intelligence has been unveiled by experts from a British university.

Researchers from the University of Exeter have invented a system that draws hornets to a monitoring station. They land on a sponge cloth impregnated with food and an overhead camera captures images.

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Australia’s energy regulator has released draft guidance on its ‘value of emissions reduction’ (VER), which will act as a shadow carbon price to help guide regulatory policy decisions related to the National Electricity Market (NEM).

While Toyota falls in line on vehicle emission standards, an expert takes a dim view of ‘solar sunshot’ and the carbon offsets that aren’t

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Ninety female wildlife and landscape photographers from around the world are marking primatologist Jane Goodall’s 90th birthday with a print sale of environmental pictures. The Jane Goodall Institute and the nonprofit Vital Impacts have collaborated on The Nature of Hope: 90 Years of Jane Goodall’s Impact, a 90-day sale with 60% of the proceeds going to the institute

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The Clean Energy Regulator issued 17.2 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in 2023, and expects this figure to rise to a record 20 mln in 2024, it said in its latest quarterly report, published Wednesday.

Rate of decline in 2023 thought to be linked to climate breakdown as UK-wide survey shows mixed picture across 58 species

The small tortoiseshell butterfly has suffered its worst year on record in England, and has declined by 82% across the UK since 1976, according to the annual scientific count of butterfly populations.

The sharp decline in numbers of the once-common garden butterfly has puzzled scientists, but it is thought to be linked to climate breakdown. It had its worst year on record in England, its second worst in Wales and its joint-fifth worst in Scotland in 2023 but did well in Northern Ireland, logging its second-best year.

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Arena chief Darren Miller doesn't share the "defeatist attitude" that Australia can't play a part in the global solar supply chain. But it's not all about competing with China.

The post “We’re not trying to compete with China:” Why Australia’s Solar Sunshot is not a flight of fancy appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian biodiversity credit company has partnered with a local skin care product producer to launch a body wash and moisturiser set that will protect one square metre of a biologically rich area of coastal South Australia per unit sold, in what they hope will prove a use case for demand in the fledgling nature crediting market.

Japan researchers flag new material that is pushing limits in energy density and stability, but crucially can work -- in the lab -- at sub-zero temperatures.

The post “Long held dream:” Japan lab claims big leap forward with new solid-state battery material appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's renewable share showed moderate gains in the March quarter, with three states showing gains and two steps going backwards.

The post Three steps forward, two steps back as Australia inches towards renewables targets appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Industry ‘rebate chasers’ are threatening the roll out of hot water heat pumps, but they could be stopped overnight.

The post Urgent action needed to stop Australia being flooded by cheap, inefficient ‘faux’ hot water heat pumps appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Eight energy outlooks published in 2023, alongside historical data sources, see substantial fossil fuel consumption through at least 2050, implying a scale-up of carbon removal technologies will be required in order to meet international climate targets, according to a report published Tuesday by a US non-profit research institution.

Nova Scotia on Tuesday submitted an alternative strategy to the Canadian federal carbon tax, though observers noted that the proposal was a rehash of previously-released measures aimed at achieving the province's environmental targets.

Australia's electricity grid - still dominated by fossil fuels - is to have a hefty "shadow" carbon price that will guide regulatory and policy decisions, and help meet the country's ambitious renewable energy goals.

The post Australia’s fossil fuel dominated grid to have hefty shadow carbon price, starting at $66 a tonne appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Oregon Department of Environmental Protection (DEQ) advisory committee on Tuesday discussed modifications to emissions caps, covered entity thresholds, and compliance distribution alternatives as part of a new rulemaking for the state’s scrapped Climate Protection Program (CPP).

Peter Dutton thinks the Coalition is on a winner by promoting nuclear power but unbiased opinion polls find that support for nuclear power in Australia falls well short of renewables.

The post Peter Dutton’s nuclear push is a “suicide note” playing mostly to right wing echo chambers appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Utilities tend to treat solar and batteries as threats to their power grids. California’s policy will now tap their flexible power to benefit the grid instead.

The post California’s new rules allow solar and batteries to help out the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.