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A US bioethanol plant operator will bring its CO2 removal credits to the voluntary carbon market using a removal standards and marketplace’s methodology, it announced Wednesday.

Transitioning residential gas appliances to electric at end-of-life from 2025 is crucial for Victoria to meet emissions reduction targets and protect consumers.

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Brookfield bows to super fund pressure to jack up offer for Origin Energy by $1.2 billion, and reinforces promise to fast-track Australia's transition to renewables.

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Startups specialising in climate tech raised a record $7.6 billion in venture capital (VC) funding in the third quarter of 2023, in a show of robust health for the US sector amid signs elsewhere of an overall slowdown in VC fundraising.

Australia will task its national think-tank to focus on achieving the country’s energy transition and climate goals, as the government looks to “complement, not copy” the US’s Inflation Reduction Act to incentivise clean energy and tech investment.

The US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic RGGI power sector cap-and-trade system saw overall CO2 emissions decline in Q3 compared to the same quarter last year, programme data published Wednesday showed.

Spot credit prices under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emission Reduction (TIER) programme climbed in October on significant volume as vintage value differentials continue to rise, according to a report published Wednesday.

A Canadian EV charging solutions provider launched a new initiative to allocate carbon credits for its EV charging station use, the company announced Wednesday.

A small representative set of California residents called for the cap-and-trade allowance budget adjustment to achieve at least 55% emission reductions by 2030, alongside recommendations for cost containment measures echoed by stakeholders, according to public comments submitted to state regulator ARB.

Data and market infrastructure provider Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is making amendments to the California Carbon Allowance Advance Auction Clearing Price (ACA) futures contract and also adding new vintage futures and options contracts effective December, the bourse announced Wednesday.

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Singapore-based Climate Impact X has taken a step towards providing benchmarked indices for the voluntary carbon market by passing the first external audit of its Nature-X assessment, paving the way for the creation of a swaps market as it confirms adding another REDD project and consults on launching other contracts.

FedEx, General Electric, and Rio Tinto are among companies targeted by a campaign launched Wednesday that aims to push the highest corporate emitters of greenhouse gases to adopt science-based targets in line with the Paris Agreement.

A Pennsylvania court on Wednesday halted the state's plans to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), ruling that it constitutes an illegal tax in that the state does not have the authority to collect revenue through the cap-and-trade scheme.

Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will delist the Moss Carbon Credit (MCO2) altcoin on Nov. 14 due to asset-related and compliance concerns.

The UK will have a smorgasbord of emerging nature markets in forthcoming years, but concerns persist around the underlying integrity and market infrastructure, according to an industry coalition.

A major European oil and gas company is teaming up with a Californian ocean carbon removal startup to launch a larger-scale pilot plant for the emerging field of direct ocean capture (DOC) of CO2, with an eye to building commercial plants in key regions globally as the technology advances.

UK-headquartered non-profit Wallacea Trust has updated its methodology for measuring uplift in biodiversity credits with the inclusion of a peer review process to verify claims.

The echinoderms more closely resemble disembodied heads than multi-limbed creatures, experts have discovered

Starfish may appear to have a plethora of limbs, but it turns out the creatures actually resemble something akin to a disembodied head.

Experts say it has long been a conundrum how starfish, sea urchins and other animals with a fivefold body plan, known as echinoderms, evolved from an ancestor with twofold symmetry – a body plan common today in animals including insects, molluscs and vertebrates.

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