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Dr Muriel Watt, who helped connect Australia's first grid connected solar system, recognised in Australia Day awards.

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New Zealand MP and former Minister for Climate Change James Shaw will step down from his position as co-leader of the Green Party in March, he announced Tuesday.

Chinese wind turbine manufacturer unveils world’s longest onshore wind turbine blade, to be used on the company’s 15MW turbines.

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The Climate, Biodiversity and Water (CBW) Division of the OECD Environment Directorate is looking for several Junior Policy Analysts to contribute to the activities of the Climate Change Expert Group (CCXG).

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As the Manager, Climate Change & Carbon, your role is pivotal in guiding leadership on climate-related priorities and leading external reporting on annual progress. With a focus on making Canfor a global leader in sustainability, you advocate for the role of the forest sector in achieving net zero.

Join us as the Head of Soil Science and embark on a mission to revolutionize gCDR at scale. As a seasoned soil scientist, you'll play a pivotal role in developing transformative measurement technology that enables the quantification of high-quality carbon removals through Enhanced Weathering (EW).

The benefits of snake populations on agricultural land far outweigh the potential costs, and farmers should tolerate rather than kill them. Rick Shine, Professor in Evolutionary Biology, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Members of the European Parliament across political groups were in rare agreement on Monday about the need to keep people and industry on board while the bloc tries to reach climate neutrality, in what will likely be the main focus for climate policy in the EU’s next political term.

Nature-related disclosure standards need more consistency across their requirements for metrics for measuring the state of nature, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said in a market report.

Companies currently facing difficulties in submitting data for the first reporting deadline of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) due to technical issues with the registry will benefit from a one month extension, the European Commission said on Monday.

A few big ticket bids kept interest alive in the voluntary carbon market last week that generally edged lower amid thin liquidity, bashed by another bout of bad press.

French farmers have been getting closer to Paris as they continue to block highways in protest against price pressures, taxes and green regulation. Dozens of tractors occupied a motorway near the city of Beauvais leading to the French capital. In Belgium, farmers blocked highways in the south of the country and parked tractors near the European parliament in Brussels

• French farmers paralyse routes into Paris in tractor protest

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The EU’s upcoming industrial carbon management strategy needs to call for concrete actions by member states, not just analysis, an EU carbon capture and storage (CCS) association has said in a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Draft rules follow the ‘polluter pays principle’ and will mean companies cover 80% of extra clean-up costs

Beauty companies will have to pay more to clean up microplastic pollution after EU negotiators struck a new deal to treat sewage.

Under draft rules that follow the “polluter pays principle”, companies that sell medicines and cosmetics will have to cover at least 80% of the extra costs needed to get rid of tiny pollutants that are dirtying urban wastewater. Governments will pay the rest, members of the bloc said, in an effort to prevent vital products from becoming too expensive or scarce.

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With confirmed or suspected cases in two Antarctic penguin species, researchers fear highly contagious virus could rip through colonies

At least one king penguin is suspected to have died from bird flu in the Antarctic. If confirmed, it will be the first of the species killed by the highly contagious H5N1 virus in the wild.

Researchers have previously raised alarm about “one of the largest ecological disasters of modern times” if bird flu reached remote Antarctic penguin populations. The birds are currently clustering together for breeding season, meaning the disease could rip through entire colonies if it continues to spread through the region.

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Voluntary carbon market project developer and investor, South Pole, has hired a Chief Risk Officer and restructured its leadership team, it announced Monday.

People movements at Sun Cable, GridBeyond, AGL, Virya, Firm Power, Smart Energy Council, WWF, RWE, GridBeyond, bp, Fortescue, DNV, SMA, Vulcan Energy, Ark Energy.

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The reawakened craft has begun detailed analysis of the lunar surface including nearby rocks