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The American scientist who grabbed headlines last year by declaring that emissions from US LNG exports are worse than coal is surprised at the lack of peer-reviewed pushback he's received so far — with most criticism until now coming from industry representatives that don’t make their data publicly available.

EDF, which is seeking fresh investors for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in England, has warned the UK government that its planned Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) will push up the cost of building new nuclear plants and wind farms.

The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is giving rise to a plethora of copycats around the world that are really meant as tariffs, according to an expert consultant who warned about “a nightmare” when it comes to implementation.

Tanzania has lost over TZS 1.2 trillion ($455 million) in potential carbon trade revenue due to inadequacies of the organisation managing carbon trading operations in the nation, according to a recently released national audit report.

Amid huge shortfalls in international climate finance during a ‘triple crisis’ of nature, climate, and burdensome debt, developing countries must apply new models and policies to unlock domestic and private sector funding, according to the co-chair of a high-level expert review.

The focus on some marine financing mechanisms is set to ramp up in the next few months with pressure from key upcoming events, a blue finance expert has said.

A pilot project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on the UK’s south coast.

A report released Monday said South Korean companies have invested in overseas cookstove projects that could have received as much as 18 times more carbon credits than the emissions reductions they actually achieved.

A carbon product specialist has returned to the market after over a year’s absence to take up the position as head of emissions trading at one of Australia’s big four banks.

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari led a successful legal battle to protect the Marañon River in the Peruvian Amazon

• Prize recognises seven activists fighting corporate power

An Indigenous campaigner and women’s leader from the Peruvian Amazon has been awarded the prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activists, after leading a successful legal campaign that led to the river where her people, the Kukama, live being granted legal personhood.

Mari Luz Canaquiri Murayari, 57, from the village of Shapajila on the Marañon River, led the Huaynakana Kamatahuara Kana (HKK) women’s association, supported by lawyers from Peru’s Legal Defence Institute, in a campaign to protect the river. After three years, judges in Loreto, Peru’s largest Amazon region, ruled in March 2024 that the Marañon had the right to be free-flowing and free of contamination, respecting an Indigenous worldview that regards a river as a living entity.

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Seven winners of environmental prize include Amazonian river campaigner and Tunisian who fought against organised waste trafficking

• Indigenous river campaigner from Peru honoured

Grassroots activists who helped jail corrupt officials and obtain personhood rights for a sacred Amazonian river are among this year’s winners of the world’s most prestigious environmental prize.

The community campaigns led by the seven 2025 Goldman prize winners underscore the courage and tenacity of local activists willing to confront the toxic mix of corporate power, regulatory failures and political corruption that is fuelling biodiversity collapse, water shortages, deadly air pollution and the climate emergency.

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Japan is seeking project proposals that can provide benefits beyond emissions reductions under the bilateral Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).

Contrary to Opposition claims, renewable energy is exerting downward pressure on residential electricity prices.

The post More gas is not needed in push for high renewables, but we need to get cracking with wind and transmission appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists are investigating for the first time how dangerous the island's next big one could be.

In Pakistan, it's hoped newly-developed AI cameras could warn villagers via text to move their livestock if snow leopards enter the area.

Ten start-ups pursuing innovations across battery chemistry, recycling, second-life systems, and EV charging selected to join inaugural incubator program.

The post Ten start-up battery innovators tapped to join Supercharge Australia incubator appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia's most advanced renewable state sets new wind output record with the help of a new wind farm, a new battery and a major new transmission link.

The post South Australia breaks wind output record for first time in two years as new projects boost capacity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Safeguard mechanism revamp leads to overall emissions fall but 70% of coal and gas facilities covered by scheme increased direct pollution

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Australia’s biggest industrial climate polluter – Chevron’s Gorgon gas export plant in Western Australia – received the equivalent of millions of dollars in carbon credits from the federal government last year, despite increasing its emissions.

The revelation in government data last week has sparked calls for changes to the safeguard mechanism, the government policy applied to the country’s 219 largest industrial climate polluting facilities.

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Cuts to science, environmental and safety agencies are a rejection of hard-won knowledge gained from studying the disaster that occurred 15 years ago

Last month, I joined nearly 500 former and current employees of National Geographic, where I was executive vice-president and chief science and exploration officer for 17 years, urging the institution to take a public stance against the Trump administration’s reckless attacks on science. Our letter pointed out that the programs being dismantled are “imperative for the success of our country’s economy and are the foundation of our progress and wellbeing. They make us safer, stronger and more prosperous.” We warned that gutting them is a recipe for disaster.

In the face of this danger, none of us can remain silent.

Terry Garcia was National Geographic’s executive vice-president and chief science and exploration officer for 17 years. He also served as the assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and deputy administrator of Noaa, as well as its general counsel

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