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NuScale, the US company pushing nuclear SMRs and championed by the Australian Coalition, has its flagship project cancelled by customers due to soaring costs.

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There are not enough carbon projects that meet the airline industry's offset requirements to meet the aviation sector's demand, a Southeast Asian airline company has said.

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Scaling up its nascent CO2 removal industry could be pivotal to Canada meeting its long-term climate targets and is predicted to bring with it substantial economic benefits including some 330,000 new jobs and a $143-billion boost in GDP by 2050.

The technology gap between the private sector and regulators could create a data mismatch, despite advancements in digital measurement, reporting, and verification (dMRV), a conference heard Wednesday.

Japanese oil and gas firm Inpex plans to generate and sell carbon credits from its Abadi LNG carbon capture and storage project in Indonesia, a conference heard Wednesday.

Ducks Unlimited has partnered with two other US-based organisations to launch a collaborative initiative to reforest over 3,000 acres of land in the Mississippi River Valley, focusing on restoring bottomland hardwood forests and capturing an estimated 400,000 tonnes of CO2 over the next four decades.

A Sydney-based carbon fund manager has appointed a new CEO to oversee a A$100-mln fund to earn Australian Carbon Credit Units from premium environmental plantings.

California compliance offset issuances almost doubled compared to ARB's prior distribution, once again surpassing last year's pace, state data published Wednesday showed, although no new issuances were tagged with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), resulting in record high premiums for DEBs-tagged units.

A US-headquartered voluntary carbon standard and registry this week announced the acceptance of credit applications under its newly-developed methane capture and reclamation protocol.

An expansive study by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) has shed light on the varying carbon stocks within dry heath forest ecosystems across the country, highlighting a stark contrast between northern and southern regions as well as between pine- and spruce-dominated forests.

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A coalition for carbon management has put forward safety-focused proposals to scale the CO2 pipeline infrastructure, while reviewing the sector’s safety record.

New Zealand dairy co-operative Fonterra announced Thursday it is targeting a 30% intensity reduction in on-farm emissions by 2030, as a coalition of the country's business leaders have said they are doing the heavy lifting to reduce emissions in the country.

Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change

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Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) – a sort of quasi-thinktank fronted by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.

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Bill Gates backs a radical new design for wind energy which proponents claim could slash the cost of the technology.

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A Los Angeles-based startup has initiated a groundbreaking commercial pilot project in California, which it said is introducing the world’s first water-positive CO2 removal system.

SA Power Networks says grid has plenty of capacity to absorb "explosion" in electric vehicles, which he says will help households halve their annual energy bills.

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Countries seeking EU membership must align with the bloc's climate policies, including its ETS, according to a set of enlargement plans presented by the European Commission on Wednesday that were light on specific requirements.

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