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US tech giant Microsoft saw an aggregate 29.1% increase in Scope 1-3 emissions in 2023 relative to its 2020 baseline, largely driven by data centre construction, alongside procurement of over 5 million tonnes in multi-year carbon removal offtake agreements, according to its annual sustainability report published Wednesday.

A trade association representing hundreds of local electric cooperatives filed in federal court this week a motion to halt the implementation of controversial US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power plant emissions regulations, amidst ongoing legal challenges since the rules were published.

An appliance-level battery can protect from black/brownout or a power surge. But it can also act as a sponge for renewable energy, and protect from price spikes.

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Workers tunnelling through mountains and redirecting rivers, powering and irrigating the nation. We think of the Snowy scheme as a successful nationbuilding project – but it wasn’t always that way Belinda Smaill, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, Monash University Kate Fitch, Senior Lecturer, Communications and Media, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Peruvian forest concessions generating carbon credits could be more lucrative than those reserved for logging, provided that the country’s improved forest management (IFM) credits can command a premium for high integrity, according to a study.

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) import tariff will have a negligible effect on India’s biggest export segments to the bloc, according to a new peer-reviewed study published Monday.

The joint California-Quebec carbon allowance auction for Q2 was postponed Wednesday due to "technical difficulties", regulators ARB said.

The iconic trees evolved on Madagascar 21 million years ago and later spread to other countries.

An Imperial College London spin-out is seeking seed funding for its decarbonised cement process, which it claims will make producing the material cheaper while still cutting more than 90% of CO2 emissions.

An international shipping advisory service has created an EU ETS add-on to its standard shipping contracts, enabling shipowners and charterers to delegate compliance obligations to a managing entity.

A lobby group supporting carbon capture and storage (CCS) in Europe is calling for more support from policymakers, with a reward for negative emissions and a special envoy within the European Commission among a range of recommendations for the next legislative cycle.

Footage on social media showed roads full of cars evacuating the suburbs of Fort McMurray in the western Canadian province of Alberta. A growing blaze threatened the city and its surroundings, which experienced devastating fires in 2016. Local officials have ordered thousands to evacuate as the fire grows in size and strength, with winds fanning the flames. 'We’re seeing extreme fire behaviour. Smoke columns are developing and the skies are covered in smoke. Firefighters have been pulled from the fire line for safety reasons,' Josee St-Onge of Alberta Wildfire told reporters

• Canada city devastated by 2016 wildfire faces evacuations as new blaze nears

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An Indian renewable energy company has signed a $1 billion MoU to finance and develop energy transition projects both within India and globally.

South West Water has detected ‘small traces’ of parasite in drinking supply that can cause diarrhoea-type disease

Boil your tap water before you drink it, residents in Devon have been told, after 22 cases of a parasitic disease were confirmed.

South West Water has detected what it calls “small traces” of a parasite that can cause a diarrhoea-type disease in the drinking supply around the town of Brixham.

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A startup focused on exchange traded voluntary carbon investment products has secured a fatwa for a carbon credit asset class that it hopes will tap into the deep pockets of the Islamic finance market.

Swedish-Swiss drink packaging giant Tetra Pak has developed a reporting framework to track its progress towards nature targets with UK-based consultancy Biodiversify.

Conservoltaics uses the land under solar panels as a home for biodiversity-boosting native flora and fauna, while improving farm efficiency.

The post “Conservoltaics:” Developers urged to think of solar farms as artificial reefs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The UK’s local governments are anxiously looking to London to enact policies that could help to clean up household rubbish in the coming years, in the hopes of minimising hefty new carbon costs for waste incineration. 

A single wind turbine produces enough energy to offset that required to make, install and decommission it in just 6 months.

The post Wind turbines pay back life cycle carbon emissions in less than 2 years, NZ study finds appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Missing a target doesn’t mean the sense of emergency should fade. What it must do is stop politicians dithering – and fast

I remember the first time I heard the 1.5C target. It was in a room at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009. With the expectation of a binding agreement slipping away and negotiations failing, some of us activists joined delegates from vulnerable African and island nations in chanting “1.5 to stay alive”. It was a frank recognition that the 2C goal the climate diplomats were endlessly talking about – though not pursuing – was insufficient to deal with the increasingly clear realities of climate science.

Since then, three things have happened.

Bill McKibben is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over 60 for action on climate and democracy

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