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A US-based startup is partnering with Italy’s second largest cement company to trial a technology that converts electricity to stored heat, which could significantly lower CO2 emissions for hard-to-abate sectors. 

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Rapidly scaling decarbonisation action must be our mission, as we confront an ever more terrifying climate crisis. But instead we risk slowing the pace of decarbonisation to an untenable level, warns John Connor of Australia's Carbon Market Institute.

The practice of biodiversity offsetting by mining companies is not a long-term sustainable solution to compensating for environmental impacts, academics have said.

The European Commission on Wednesday set out rules for participation in its inaugural auction, funded through ETS revenue, to subsidise green hydrogen across the 27-nation bloc.

A California-based developer that uses manmade structures on the seabed to harvest carbon-sequestering kelp has signed its first offtake agreement for the resultant blue carbon credits and says that investor interest is strong in the projects thanks to the multiple benefits they deliver for marine life, climate change, and coastal communities.

European carbon prices legged higher on Wednesday morning, following a recent trend of early-session strength, amid a strong auction and after weekly Commitment of Traders data from the two main exchanges showed a slight build in investment funds' short positioning.

A paper currently undergoing peer review aims to cut through current debates on how best to do area-based biodiversity conservation in light of the increased global attention on national biodiversity targets and investments and the emergence of nature-based credit markets.

A consortium has come together in a first of its kind project to enable households in Bangladesh and Cambodia access to clean cooking solutions while generating income through their cooking practices through a carbon credit revenue share system.

Power generation across EU countries fell to its lowest level in the first six months of 2023, as a 5% drop in overall consumption year-on-year and strong renewable output led to a 23% collapse in coal and 13% fall in gas burn.

South Korea is planning to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Laos by the end of this year to deepen their cooperation on REDD+ projects, as Seoul has committed to securing more international credits for its climate goals.

A new alliance formed this week has become the latest to target sustainable agriculture in an effort to save water and reduce methane emissions from rice cultivation in India.

The world is far from meeting an International Panel on Climate Change target to limit global warming to 2C above pre-industrial times and will continue to use fossil fuels at a much higher rate without more investment, new technologies, and better policy settings, according to oil major ExxonMobil.

New Zealand’s forestry regulations needs to be balanced to gain rural community support while at the same time allowing the sector to expand to the scale required to meet the country’s climate goals, an expert told a conference Wednesday.

Australia has just released 10 new areas for large-scale CO2 storage off its coast, nominated by its oil and gas industry which has pulled back on traditional offshore work in recent years.

New Zealand Climate Change and Environment Minister James Shaw on Wednesday defended the government's consultation process and refused to rule out policy options as he addressed foresters' concerns about the options raised in the ETS review.

The New Zealand government will publish a paper relating to its approach to Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) in the coming days, the minister for climate change and environment told a conference Wednesday.

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A publicly-traded European carbon credit firm faces delisting from Amsterdam’s Euronext stock market.