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Many countries are not including sustainability in consumer protection laws, an action regarded as a critical way of hastening the implementation of the GBF, a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) officer said Tuesday.

Two prominent climate policy experts have taken issue with criticisms that the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework risks leading to double counting towards UN climate targets, saying this is “an essential feature rather than a bug”.

A London-headquartered carbon insurance company has unveiled the expansion of its offering to covered voluntary enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) will not bow to pressure and validate the use of voluntary carbon credits to help a company achieve its emission targets, the body confirmed to Carbon Pulse Tuesday.

The building industry would benefit from a clearer definition of net zero and regulation requiring it to measure and track the whole-life carbon emissions of building projects, according to an industry consultant, who also acknowledged that the sector will need voluntary carbon credits to offset its residual emissions.

The Labour party in the UK wants to make the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme easier to manage for land owners while better understanding its impacts, according to a minister.

LEGO Group has signed a nine-year deal with a direct air capture technology developer to permanently remove CO2, the companies announced on Tuesday.

EU carbon prices were slightly weaker at midday on Tuesday after strong early gains were followed by renewed selling, while energy prices eased back after the previous session's sharp gains, which one analyst called "exaggerated".

Exclusive: Fingers of willow gloves, found in only two woodlands, will be rushed to Cumbria and tied to new trees

Fingers of a critically endangered fungus will this week be removed from its last sites in Scotland and fixed to trees in three woodlands in England to save it from extinction.

Willow gloves, which resembles the fingers of washing-up gloves and grows on dead trees, is found only in two woodlands, and the vast majority is living on just one fallen tree.

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A last-minute failure to green-light the so-called Nature Restoration Law will leave the European Union "empty-handed" at the upcoming UN summit on biodiversity, EU commissioner for Environment Virginijus Sinkevicius said during a bitter speech on Monday.

Concerns about social acceptance, industrial policy, and finance came to the fore on Monday as the EU’s 27 environment ministers debated the bloc’s 2040 climate target.

Campaigners say activities leading to severe environmental harm usually also violate human rights

The international criminal court (ICC) has been urged to start investigating and prosecuting individuals who harm the environment.

Academics, lawyers and campaigners from around the world have sent expert opinions to the court outlining what they call its current regime of “impunity” for serious environmental crimes.

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A German-based research network has released a set of recommendations to enhance conservation efforts, ranging from transforming food systems to improving monitoring, in an attempt to better inform nature policies at a national and European level.

Queensland unveils roadmap to create 12 renewable energy zones to support 22 GW of new wind and solar and its 80 pct renewables target.

The post Queensland unveils renewable zone roadmap to connect 22GW of wind, solar and transition from coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A Japanese information services provider has launched an AI-powered solution for data acquisition, which can quantify and simulate changes in the marine environment to support blue carbon and biodiversity initiatives. 

Although forced to water down its original settings, the revised model will help Australia reach its decarbonisation targets

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In bringing together a fiercely divided auto industry, the Albanese government appears to have struck a consensus model for a vehicle efficiency standard that will meaningfully bring down emissions – and Australian motorists will reap the rewards.

While the government ultimately had to buckle to industry pressure and water down the preferred settings it had unveiled in February – the most significant concessions being the easing of rules for certain large SUVs and a six-month delay to the credit and penalty system – the fact targets were ambitious to begin with meant that even environmental and electric vehicle bodies back the compromise deal.

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China’s second-largest oil and gas company and French oiler TotalEnergies plan to develop sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at an existing Chinese oil refinery.

Japan’s Jera plans to buy into a giant US hydrogen project that would supply it with 500,000 tonnes of green ammonia per year, it said Tuesday.

Indonesia’s state-owned energy company Pertamina will lobby the country’s Financial Services Authority (OJK) to allow more energy efficiency projects on the country’s national carbon exchange, a representative told local media.

Asymptomatic cases may seem reassuring for the penguins, but scientists fear they could act as ‘Trojan horses’ for other species

Adélie penguins in Antarctica are testing positive for bird flu without showing outward signs of disease, according to researchers who travelled around 13 remote breeding sites on an ice-breaking cruise ship.

Since bird flu arrived in the region this year, there have been concerns about the virus reaching the Antarctic’s fragile penguin populations. In November last year, researchers warned in a pre-print research paper that if the virus caused mass mortality in these colonies, “it could signal one of the largest ecological disasters of modern times”.

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