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Supportive policy and a global price on carbon will be critical to making low-carbon steel production competitive, according to steelmaker ArcelorMittal, which reported on Thursday that it had almost halved its emissions footprint since 2018.

European carbon prices dropped away on Thursday morning as the market squared away for the extended Easter weekend break and some participants booked profits after a 9% rally over the last six days.

As the first climate summit in the Amazon approaches, a gulf is opening between what the area’s farming lobby wants, and what the world needs

• Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again
• The life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforest

Yellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle and producing beef is better characterised by depression, market pressure and vexed efforts to prevent the destruction of the land and its people.

The toll was apparent along the rutted PA 279 road in Pará state. Signs of human and environmental stress were not hard to find during the last dry season. Record drought had dried up irrigation ponds and burned pasture grass down to the roots, leaving emaciated cattle behind the fences. Exposed red soil was whipped up into dust devils as SUVs and cattle trucks sped past on their way between Xinguara and São Félix do Xingu, which is home to both the biggest herd on the planet and the fastest erasure of forest in the Amazon.

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Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattle

• Bibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goals
• The life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforest

The world’s largest meat company, JBS, looks set to break its Amazon rainforest protection promises again, according to frontline workers.

Beef production is the primary driver of deforestation, as trees are cleared to raise cattle, and scientists warn this is pushing the Amazon close to a tipping point that would accelerate its shift from a carbon sink into a carbon emitter. JBS, the Brazil-headquartered multinational that dominates the Brazilian cattle market, promised to address this with a commitment to clean up its beef supply chain in the region by the end of 2025.

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UN agency the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has released its environmental strategy for 2025-31, planning to support the development of biodiversity and carbon credit markets to reward small-scale farmers.

Salmon is often marketed as the sustainable, healthy and eco-friendly protein choice. But what you may not realise is that most of the salmon you buy is farmed, especially if you live in the UK, because Scottish salmon producers are no longer required to tell you.

Josh Toussaint-Strauss finds out why it is important for consumers to know where their salmon comes from, and examines the gap between the marketing of farmed salmon and the reality for our health, the environmental and animal welfare

• Scottish government must do more to control salmon farming, inquiry finds

• Scottish salmon producers allowed to remove ‘farmed’ from front of packaging

• Norway rules out fish farm ban despite ‘existential threat’ to wild salmon

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A US-based nature intelligence company has published a framework for supporting companies in biodiversity-related disclosures, in line with major reporting standards and rules.

The new carbon market logic under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement must be about cooperation, not just offsetting, according to an expert report circulated on Thursday.

Another of Australia’s large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects has hit the starter with its Japanese LNG company operator announcing it has begun preliminary engineering work for a project that could be sequestering millions of tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.

The EU cut its net greenhouse gas emissions down by 37% between 1990 and 2023, driven by steep cuts in the energy sector, but falling short of the EU’s goal of 55% by 2030, the European Environment Agency (EEA) reported on Wednesday.

Eastern EU countries like Poland and Romania are developing national CO2 transport and storage frameworks, but public opposition to onshore storage means their emissions may need to be shipped across Europe to be stored under the North Sea – potentially taking energy-intensive industries with them.

Challenges in decarbonising China's aluminium sector persist, but policy signals such as the expansion of the domestic emissions trading scheme are starting to guide the industry towards a lower-carbon future, according to a think tank.

Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCUs) issuance has shrunk in the first quarter of 2025, according to data published by the Clean Energy Regulator Thursday.

Peter Dutton is facing outrage after comments he made on climate change during an election debate.

A survey shows people with healthy eating habits tend to waste less food than those who focus on choosing ethical and environmentally friendly products. Trang Nguyen, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Global Food and Resources, University of Adelaide Jack Hetherington, Grant-funded Researcher, University of Adelaide Patrick O'Connor, Professor in Natural Resource Economics, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Malaysia Forest Fund (MFF), a federal government agency, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gold Standard to strengthen the fund’s institutional capacity and support the development of national carbon credit initiatives, it said Thursday.

Shell, experts, and the Clean Energy Regulator have sought to allay concerns that the Prelude floating LNG facility will be the source of an infinite supply of Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs).

Nuclear fission is fizzling, despite being pitched by the federal Coalition. But some Australian investors are betting big on that other nuclear tech - fusion energy.

The post The Australian investors betting big on fusion – the “holy grail” of nuclear tech appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a deal with an energy transition solutions provider to explore the feasibility of developing a low-carbon aluminium project in India.

No breach, self-regulatory Australian Press Council rules; plus BBC embarks on big bureau expansion

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When is an undisclosed advertorial, paid for by the fossil fuel industry and splashed across the front pages of all the Murdoch tabloids, not a breach of press standards?

When the Australian Press Council rules there is nothing to see and finds no breach.

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