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Neoen formally opens first stage of what will be Australia's biggest battery, soaking up rooftop solar and helping ease the last coal generators out of the grid.

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Devrim Celal from green energy retailer Octopus explains why the energy transition will not succeed unless the proper incentives are given to use electricity at the right times.

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The city is the size of Edinburgh and among the largest Mayan sites in ancient Latin America.

A biogas technology provider serving the agricultural sector has acquired a digital MRV firm.

Canada’s C$15 billion ($10.9 bln) public investment fund has made an offer to finance carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology for the fossil fuel industry, media reported Monday.

Carbon credit projects that centre biodiversity in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can attract broader investment and meet both climate and biodiversity targets, said a report authored by voluntary carbon market (VCM) proponents on Monday.

An October study attempts to shed light on how research and innovation funding for monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) should be prioritised for CO2 removal (CDR) projects.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released new global maps tracking above-ground forest biomass, calling it “a stable and open data source” for monitoring carbon stocks.

A new platform to add transparency to carbon credit purchases in Australia was launched Tuesday at the Climate Market Institute’s (CMI) Australasian Emissions Reduction Summit in Melbourne.

Queensland has more than 120 gigawatts of wind, solar and storage projects in the pipeline. Will the newly elected LNP abandon them all?

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The Secretariat of the ART carbon credit standard announced Monday it has published another Brazilian state's concept under its TREES jurisdictional certification programme.

Companies in the mining, property, and industrial sectors should have enough data at hand to take the first step to address their impacts on nature and biodiversity loss, according to a new guide for these industries published Tuesday.

National carrier Air New Zealand has become the first to pay into a nature-positive co-financing pilot that seeks to channel funds to community restoration initiatives on cyclone-ravaged Maori land.

A Denmark-headquartered environmental consultancy on Monday released an open-access metric for measuring the biodiversity value of habitats on sites around the world, with potential applications in corporate disclosures as well as the emerging biodiversity credit market, the company told Carbon Pulse.

Australia now has more than enough evidence that proposals to build big dams consistently underestimate both the construction costs and the harm they do. John Kandulu, Research Fellow, College of Business, Government and Law, Flinders University Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Sarah Ann Wheeler, Matthew Flinders Professor in Water Economics, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A scenario in which all greenhouse gas emissions released by human activities are counterbalanced by carbon removals is still not in sight, according to new research.

Most of the Nature Action 100’s (NA100) focus companies are in the early stages of addressing their nature-related impacts, but further action is needed across Indigenous Peoples’ rights, governance, and disclosure, the group has said.

A carbon storage facility in the Greek city of Prinos received the EU green light on Monday, raising the country's profile as a CO2 storage hub as well as Southern Europe's CCS ambitions.

The lifetime emissions of a project to add carbon capture technology to a gas-fired power plant in Scotland could be three to five times higher than reported by the developer, according to estimates by a climate think tank.

Low ball bids dominated the voluntary carbon market last week, eyeing up the pressure on sellers amid the glut of avoidance credits.