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Exchange operator ICE Futures US announced new low carbon fuel futures and options contracts starting next month.

Allowing energy retailers to sell PV output for 26 to 35 cents/kWh to a buyer a few streets away from a generator that has been paid virtually nothing is yet another serious energy market design failure.

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Direct air capture (DAC) will soon be an eligible method of generating Canadian offset credits, according to a draft protocol published Monday by the federal environment ministry.

To listen deeply to nature is to become aware of behaviours, relationships and patterns of interaction between multiple species – and to learn from what we hear. Monty Nixon, PhD Student in Education, University of Canberra Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) unanimously ended a process for potentially changing the way greenhouse gas emission impacts are measured from new gas infrastructure projects.

RGGI allowance (RGA) prices began to soften last week amidst ongoing uncertainty around the Third Program Review and a lack of liquidity and demand, traders said.

A South Dakota House committee advanced a bill Friday to prohibit the use of eminent domain for CO2 pipeline construction in the state.

Capacity markets across Europe have allocated nearly €53 billion in public subsidies to fossil power plants since 2015, funded through a levy on energy bills aimed at ensuring the lights are kept on at all times, a new report published on Tuesday has revealed.

A major Canadian global asset manager announced Monday the third close of its forest fund designed to invest in sustainably managed forests for carbon sequestration.

A consumer defense group based in Brazil is taking a low-cost airline and a car rental firm to court over alleged greenwashing, a move it calls a first for the country.

The city of Annapolis and Anne Arundel County in Maryland had their respective lawsuits against several oil giants dismissed on Thursday, setting back the municipalities’ efforts to recover alleged damages they claimed were caused by the fossil fuel industry.

The owner of the biggest electric utility in the US says renewables and storage needed "right now" to meet demand and keep prices down.

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Brazil’s biofuels-based RenovaBio compliance carbon market is once again at the centre of controversy with the introduction of stricter penalties for fuel distributors that violate its ‘CBio’ credit purchase targets – which already placed smaller fuel distributors at a competitive disadvantage, according to a Brazilian RenovaBio researcher, sparking litigation.

Chris Bowen uses ministerial powers to direct ARENA to consider funding solar panels and home batteries following a deal with crossbenchers on Labor's Future Made in Australia legislation.

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Egypt’s ministry of environment on Sunday launched a guide in support of national afforestation goals that also include a mitigation component, local media reported.

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Brazil's national development bank have signed a $1 million cooperation agreement to fund partnership projects aimed at restoring and sustainably managing public forests in the Amazon.

Senate Republicans in Pennsylvania reintroduced legislation Friday to repeal RGGI regulation as part of the new 2025-26 legislative session.

Give a bacteria-fungi biofilm access to sweetened tea and you can make not only kombucha – but a fibre vital to making clothing. Rajkishore Nayak, Associate Professor , RMIT University Vietnam Donna Cleveland, Associate Professor of Sustainable Design, RMIT University Vietnam Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An economic shift raises alarming questions about government vision, priorities and commitment to transformative policies

To hear Labour’s economic message, one might wonder if Downing Street has developed an unlikely admiration for Liz Truss. Given its focus on growth through cutting planning regulations, reducing welfare budgets and removing dissenting bureaucrats, some believe Labour is in danger of echoing not just the spirit but the substance of Ms Truss’s brief, ill-fated tenure. For a party that rose to power criticising the Tory right’s ideological misadventures, this shift in tone is striking.

Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves may see Labour’s sinking poll ratings as reason to align with their opponents, adopting policies – like curbing legal challenges to planning decisions – few rightwingers would contest. In a speech later this week, Ms Reeves plans to give the go-ahead for a third runway at Heathrow, a divisive choice even within Labour that has earned support from the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch.

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Indecision and uncertainty continued to plague the voluntary carbon market after news broke that the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) may not decide on which cookstoves methodologies will qualify for the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) quality label until the end of March, while participants continued to digest the possible impact of US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement.