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A California-headquartered startup announced Wednesday a partnership with a Brazilian civil society organisation to bring carbon credits directly from Brazilian smallholder farmers to market.

Lawmakers from a central US state that previously prevailed in fossil fuel pipeline battles, introduced legislation to prohibit the transport and storage of carbon dioxide.

Australian oil and gas company and a US university have entered into a five-year partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance low carbon solutions, the academic institution announced Wednesday.

Aussie startup reports "buzz of potential" for innovators at this year's meeting as quest to find sustainable ways of doing business gets urgent.

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More work is needed across all sectors to achieve the EU’s climate objectives out to 2050, including adjusting the ETS and making policies fully consistent with a fossil fuels phaseout, according to the board of scientists advising the bloc on climate change.

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EU ETS emissions in 2023 are likely to have fallen by around 23% in the power sector, and by around 5-6% in the industry sector, with the resulting weakness leaving the EUA price outlook for 2024 close to current depressed levels, according to a market analyst.

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The RGGI states reduced allowance volumes offered at the first auction of 2024, following the departure of Virginia from the power sector cap-and-trade scheme at the end of December, a notice showed Tuesday.

The Strategy & Impact team at Conservation International is seeking a Manager of Strategy Development, Reporting, and Planning. Nested within CI’s Field Program unit, the Strategy & Impact team is tasked with the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of Conservation International’s institutional-level strategy. The Manager will assist in the refinement and downsizing of our institutional strategy and goals to the regional and country program level, as well as institutional planning and reporting efforts.

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Sustainable agricultural practices focused on smallholder farmers can help produce more food while caring for the land, Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria said.

Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects stemming from exhaust streams of natural gas driven compressors will not be economically viable until higher carbon prices are realised in the US and Canada, although emerging technologies also show promise in reducing cost, according to a report published Wednesday.

Battery electric trucks offer larger and more certain emission cuts than trucks powered by hydrogen in the quest to reduce Australia’s stubbornly high transport emissions. Robin Smit, Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A group of companies making up a third of the global mining and metals industry on Wednesday committed to taking actions that will halt their negative impact on biodiversity by 2030 and support a nature positive future.

There is method in the oil conglomerate’s decision that the best candidate for CEO is the one already doing the job

After a “robust and competitive” hunt for a new chief executive, the board of BP has decided that the best appointment is the bloke who has been sitting in the boardroom for three and a half years already and doing the job on a stand-in basis since the defenestration of Bernard Looney last September.

No surprise there. BP has never appointed a boss from outside, and Murray Auchincloss, the former chief financial officer, fits the bill as a continuity candidate. He has been in the company for 25 years and is wedded to Looney’s – and chair Helge Lund’s – strategy of “orderly” transition to net zero by 2050 or sooner. He did the numbers on the approach, after all.

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The European Commission will start work on a CO2 transport regulatory package under the ETS, according to a leaked draft of the upcoming industrial carbon management strategy (ICMS) seen by Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

Products and services billed as climate neutral, biodegradable or eco must provide proof, with carbon schemes banned as evidence

Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims.

On Wednesday, members of the European parliament [MEPs] voted to outlaw the use of terms such as “environmentally friendly”, “natural”, “biodegradable”, “climate neutral” or “eco” without evidence, while introducing a total ban on using carbon offsetting schemes to substantiate the claims.

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Indigenous Peoples must be involved in shaping the nascent biodiversity market, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) co-chair has said.

The US-led Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) jurisdictional carbon crediting mechanism to phase out coal globally could be a key lever to helping reach the goal to triple renewables to at least 11,000 GW globally by 2030, said outgoing US climate envoy John Kerry in Davos on Wednesday.