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A US-listed carbon ETF has reduced almost 60% of its California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings on Monday, its website records showed Tuesday.

Sustainability initiatives among technology firms have evolved from regulatory obligations into strategic priorities, as CEOs look to align green innovation with profitability and market competitiveness, according to a new analysis.

A white paper, published Tuesday by a voluntary carbon market investor and a nature-tech company, has argued that carbon crediting in REDD+ projects has been systematically robust across the sector’s history, despite criticism that its methodologies continue to over-credit activities.

The UK government has awarded £4 billion worth of contracts for the construction of its first carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) cluster, paving the way to break ground next year, it announced on Tuesday.

The UK government should publish an action plan setting out priorities for tackling methane emissions, taking into account the cost of action in different sectors, its short- and long-term benefits, and the cost of inaction, members of the House of Lords recommended on Tuesday.

A new project for industrial biochar carbon removal has been launched in Namibia via a partnership between a German non-profit and the local subsidiary of a biochar developer.

Beyond technological innovation and existing carbon pricing mechanisms, decarbonising aviation in the EU needs stronger policy measures that make the polluter pay, subsidies for clean energies, and promote alternatives to flying, new research has found.

A director at India’s largest carbon offset developer has tendered his resignation amid what he called “unavoidable circumstances” in a company filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Ten financial institutions have invested more than $1.7 billion between 2021 and 2023 in two meatpacking companies allegedly associated with deforestation in Paraguay's Gran Chaco, according to an NGO investigation.

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has raised concerns over the alarming increase in land aridification registered in the past few decades, as pressure has mounted on negotiators in Ryhad to seek solutions to the ongoing crisis.

Neoen, Edify, Lightsource bp, newcomer Elgin Energy and Andrew Forrest share most of the spoils of the largest wind and solar tender ever held in Australia.

The post NSW gets lion share as 19 solar, wind and hybrid projects win Australia’s biggest renewable tender appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A startup with an electrochemical method of removing CO2 from water claims it can simultaneously reduce the energy requirement and cost of desalination, with potential for significant mitigation were it to scale up.

Alastair Matcott worked on a project that provided free energy audits and free renewable energy upgrades for private renters and investors. But it failed because they were stonewalled by real estate companies and industry bodies.

The post SwitchedOn Podcast: How real estate agents stonewalled renewable upgrades for private renters appeared first on RenewEconomy.

European carbon prices posted a modest gain at midday, tracking movements in front-month natural gas and fluctuating between two key options strike prices, as the market positioned itself ahead of Wednesday's options expiry.

Australia is set to get a new, low-carbon steel mill in Queensland built by one of the nation’s largest steel suppliers, who buys from local and international sources.

Some 29 jurisdictions, totalling more than €75 trillion of banking assets, have started reflecting nature-related considerations in their regulations, the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) has said in a report.

Filter performs well in removing plastic pollution from water and Chinese researchers say it appears to be scalable

A sponge made of cotton and squid bone that has absorbed about 99.9% of microplastics in water samples in China could provide an elusive answer to ubiquitous microplastic pollution in water across the globe, a new report suggests.

Just as importantly, the filter’s production appears to be scalable, the University of Wuhan study authors said in the paper, which was peer-reviewed and published in the journal Science Advances. That would address a problem that has stymied the use of previous microplastic filtration systems that were successful in controlled settings, but could not be scaled up.

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The deployment of balancing power generation technologies such as flexible gas-fired plants and energy storage, alongside renewables, could slash cumulative power system costs by €65 trillion and cut carbon emissions by 21% by 2050, according to a new report.

Market experts see significant potential in crediting the reduction of sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) emissions linked to grid expansion in the power sector and the clean energy transition, with a German government-backed initiative also looking at the role of carbon finance in the relatively untapped field of mitigation.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM)'s quality assessment process has been put under the spotlight after current and former experts of the stakeholder initiative's expert panel warned that three recently-approved REDD methodologies could produce “large volumes” of over-crediting.