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Perth based Infinite Green Energy signs deal to help build one of Italy’s biggest commercial-scale renewable hydrogen plants.

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An Australian soil carbon project developer and an agritech firm have launched a digital livestock tracking initiative to help optimise herd management, pasture and soil performance, they announced Wednesday.

Europe's pioneering ERS-2 Earth observation spacecraft will make an uncontrolled dive to destruction.

A doubling in the size of Queensland's Wambo wind farm has been confirmed, taking the project's final capacity to just over 500MW.

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California gasoline sales and emissions trailed 2022 levels for the third month in a row in November, while diesel sales and emissions exceeded those from the previous year for a second straight month, according to the state data published Tuesday.

Global mining giant Rio Tinto says it has signed the biggest renewable energy power purchase agreement (PPA) in Australia to help supply its huge smelting and refining operations in Gladstone.

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A climate tech venture investor is joining forces with a specialist investment manager to increase the pool of growth capital available to environmental-focused companies in the UK.

One of the world’s largest programs to eradicate multiple predators and pests has started to restore the island and its once vast nesting colonies to their former glory. Jeremy Bird, Research Associate, Ecology and Biodiversity, University of Tasmania Justine Shaw, Senior Research Fellow in Antarctic and island conservation science, Queensland University of Technology Richard Fuller, Professor in Biodiversity and Conservation, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New report examines how Queensland’s nation-leading policy and investment in transmission, renewables and consumer energy resources is crowding in public and private capital.

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A US-based voluntary carbon removals startup has opened a public consultation as it seeks to align its certification standard with the latest code of best practice from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA).

RGGI allowance (RGA) values continued to recede as trading volumes rose from the previous week, although activity was subdued heading into the US long weekend.

We’re all familiar with fire. But do you really know what it is and how it starts? Here’s the chemistry of fire – and why Australia is so prone to going up in flames. Jason Dutton, Professor of Chemistry, La Trobe University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Tokyo would need to plant over two billion trees to offset the more than 320 million tonnes of CO2 it emits every year, making it the city the most in need of afforestation to counteract its carbon emissions, new research finds.

The UK government has published an updated list of free allocations to industrial installations for the period from 2021 to 2025, incorporating changes to carbon allowance handouts after assessing individual plants’ operations in previous years.

A large volume of African cookstove carbon credits have traded above $7.50, a source told Carbon Pulse on Tuesday, underlining the sector’s resilience in the wake of a recent academic paper that claimed over-crediting was rife.

A Montreal-based investment management firm has launched one of the first biodiversity-focused funds in Canada, seeking to channel resources towards the preservation of nature.

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Three voluntary carbon market firms have appointed new members to their senior leadership teams, they said this week.

Sultan Al Jaber, an oil executive, calls for governments to be ‘honest’ about costs involved in transition to net zero

The problem of the ever-growing demand for power must be addressed if the world is not to risk descending into “energy turmoil” as it transitions towards clean energy, according to the president of last year’s Cop28 summit.

In a discussion hosted by the International Energy Agency, Sultan Al Jaber warned governments that they must be “honest and transparent” about the potential costs of transition, and the trade-offs involved in transforming energy supplies.

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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has stepped towards drafting a regional plan to implement the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), as the organisation seeks to lead the way on nature conservation.