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Central Asian country has the worst rate of climate-heating ‘super-emitter’ events in the world

The president of Turkmenistan has launched two initiatives aimed at cutting the colossal leaks of methane from the country’s oil and gas industry. Success would represent a major achievement in tackling the climate crisis.

A roadmap will pave the way towards the central Asian country joining 150 others that have already signed the Global Methane Pledge to cut global methane emissions by 30% by 2030. An inter-departmental government commission will also focus on reducing emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas.

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An Australian carbon accounting software provider has teamed up with a local advisory firm to help Hong Kong-based companies better track their Scope 3 emissions, following the latest ESG disclosure regulations proposed by the city's main bourse.

Japan has selected seven advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects in a bid to secure an annual storage capacity of approximately 13 million tonnes of CO2 by 2030, the government announced Tuesday.

A plastics treaty is on the cards – and it could join the rescue of the ozone layer as a landmark success in environmental diplomacy

Plastic production has soared some 30-fold since it came into widespread use in the 1960s. We now churn out about 430m tonnes a year, easily outweighing the combined mass of all 8 billion people alive. Left unabated, it continues to accelerate: plastic consumption is due to nearly double by 2050.

Now there is a chance that this huge growth will stop, even go into reverse. This month in Paris, the world’s governments agreed to draft a new treaty to control plastics. The UN says it could cut production by a massive 80% by 2040.

Geoffrey Lean is a specialist environment correspondent and author

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A Singaporean NGO has lunched its inaugural blue carbon conservation project in Northern Sumatra under the novel OxCarbon Standard, it announced Tuesday.

A Japanese carbon project developer has launched a joint study with the Vietnam National University of Agriculture on methane emissions from rice paddies, with an eye on rolling out carbon credit-yielding projects across the Southeast Asian nation.

The Sundarbans is the world’s largest mangrove forest and one of the most climate vulnerable locations on the planet. Climate change has taken an enormous toll on the rainforest in recent years, repeatedly uprooting families and decimating the incomes of residents who have traditionally relied heavily on agriculture and fishing for their livelihoods.

Now, repeated natural disasters and environmental changes to the region have created a highly vulnerable population increasingly at risk of participating in or becoming victims of child trafficking.

29 year old Subhasree Raptan started her fight against human trafficking a decade ago. As a coordinator of Goranbose Gram Bikash Kendra (GGBK), a non-profit organisation, Subhasree has been educating women and children on dangers of trafficking and is helping police to track down those who have gone missing.

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New analysis lays out the safest path to limit global warming to 1.5°C – and to slash future reliance on unproven methods of carbon removal.

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China is still facing the risk of near-term power shortages as the current tariff-setting mechanism has led to distorted incentives for power capacity operations and investments across the country, a report has found.

The Japan-Cambodia Joint Committee has registered a first REDD+ project under the JCM, seen as a breakthrough as the government is working to include REDD+ and CCS programmes in its bid to increase credit supply from the mechanism.

REDD+ project operator New Ireland Hardwood Timber (NIHT) has refuted claims made against it in the ongoing court case between itself and a local community incorporated land group in Papua New Guinea.

"The most significant investment ever:" Queensland government allocates $19 billion over four years to ensure the state meets its renewable energy targets.

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The Bosque de Niebla-El Globo habitat bank in Colombia has sold out all its awarded 600 biodiversity credits, ensuring the area will remain protected for three decades, and is now seeking to expand.

Number of coal outages hit grid over long weekend as generator warns of more price hikes.

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Australia urged to set "bold" 1.5°C target to try and break regulatory deadlock and investment blockage that threaten to derail its transition to renewables.

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A California-based non-profit has launched a crowdfunding campaign to finalise design work of a marine biodiversity protection credit standard, the first in a series if marine ecosystem credit classes it is planning to introduce to help scale ocean conservation finance.

The Overview Effect describes the transformative impact of seeing Earth from space and feeling profoundly connected to our planet and concerned for it. That’s at odds with the impact of space tourism. Ariane Moore, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An Australian gas explorer looking to develop resources in the controversial Beetaloo basin has confirmed it aims to develop an LNG export terminal at the federally funded Middle Arm precinct in Darwin.

ACT starts to source its cheapest wind power yet, guaranteeing lower prices into the future as it moves to next stage of kicking out fossil fuels.

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