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AGL says it is "going as fast as it can" to decarbonise. But what hope is there of quitting coal if the big gentailers, the best entities for the job, don’t build new solar or wind?

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A Vancouver-headquartered carbon credit financier on Monday announced a multi-year carbon credit purchase agreement with the Canadian subsidiary of a large energy company, marking the firm’s first foray into developing credits for the country’s various compliance-based environmental markets.

The Mexican cap-and-trade system will not begin its operational phase until some time next year due to the complex process of establishing final regulations, a government official said Monday.

Indonesia's mangrove forests are being felled to make charcoal - locals say they have to make a living.

RGGI Allowance prices barely budged over the past week as a sympathy trade with California Carbon Allowances vanished, and in the absence of fundamental drivers from weather and regulatory developments.

Scientists need safe spaces to understand and process “climate emotions”. Group therapy helps people find the strength and resilience to continue their important work, without harming their health. Joe Duggan, PhD Candidate, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Australian National University Neal Robert Haddaway, Senior Research Fellow, Africa Centre for Evidence and Stockholm Environment Institute, University of Johannesburg Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Toronto-headquartered voluntary carbon credit financier maintained its net loss for the first six months of 2023, in contrast to a robust net income during the same period in 2022, according to quarterly earnings reports published Monday.  

In a new reality of climatic instability and volatility, proactive planning for the very worst needs to be part of the new normal

The dreadful scale of the loss of life on the Hawaiian island of Maui has emerged day by day, as search and rescue teams scour ash and rubble. But it is already clear that the wind-fuelled blaze which last week ripped through the historic town of Lahaina was the deadliest wildfire in the United States for more than 100 years.

Hundreds are still missing, and the sheer intensity of the fire means that the identification of bodies and the notification of relatives will be a difficult and slow process. The west Maui town itself, the former capital of the Hawaiian kingdom, is a charred wasteland in which close to 3,000 structures were burned to the ground at terrifying speed.

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the EU's shipping sector are not likely to reach 2019 levels for the next two years due to lower demand for shipping services as well as the sector's decarbonisation efforts, analysts predict, exerting additional downward pressure to an already bearish outlook for EUA prices in 2024.

Carbon credit prices were little changed over the past week amid a typical summer slowdown that has been heightened by a generally gloomy macro-economic environment in the Global North.

The Duerrenstein-Lassingtal Wilderness Area in Lower Austria has announced its first "climate partnership" with a cosmetics and food supplements company, aiming to provide corporates with a means to offset their emissions.

A Spanish energy company announced it has entered into the voluntary carbon market by launching a new company focused on nature-based projects as it targets mitigation upwards of 60 MtCO2e.

UK-based CreditNature has won a contract with the Scottish government to develop a biodiversity credit system, in an effort to catalyse the voluntary market in Scotland.

We asked a panel of commentators for their view on the government’s electoral strategy

In the face of Labour poll leads, Rishi Sunak and his government appear to be increasingly focused on rightwing campaigns related to the culture wars, migration and opposition to environmental initiatives and targets. Do you think this is, or could be, a credible strategy?

John Redwood is the Conservative MP for Wokingham

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The Carbon Advisory, Regulations and Reporting team manages the consolidated Origin Group's regulatory and reporting requirements under the various carbon and environmental schemes, covering Federal & State governments, mandatory and voluntary frameworks, internal and external stakeholders.

Nature and carbon standard Plan Vivo has launched a second consultation on its 'PV Nature Methodology', making significant changes from the first draft based on public feedback, such as introducing a standardised way to collect and analyse data, and amendments to the calculating of percentage change in biodiversity. 

The Senior Carbon Analyst will provide accurate monthly reporting of liability actuals and ensure full compliance with all mandatory and voluntary Environmental Schemes for Origin and timely, efficient completion of all commodity creations.

European carbon prices climbed to their highest in nearly two weeks in relatively thin trading on Monday morning as market activity slowed during the peak of the summer break.

How our family went electric - from solar to cars to batteries and cooktops and heaters, and cutting off the gas supply - and saved money along the way.

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Many see climate breakdown as a problem of the future, but it’s here now. To move forward, we must understand our part in it

During the summer of 2021, I flew to Greece to learn more about the wildfires there. I wanted to hear people’s stories, to understand what it meant to be displaced by environmental disaster. I have family in Greece and Cyprus and the approach of each summer causes a lot of anxiety. That year, fires were raging in Greece, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia and Cyprus, and I was three months pregnant. Feeling Evie growing inside me made me wonder what kind of world she would live in – and made me all the more determined to learn as much as I could about what people had experienced.

I spent a lot of time in Mati, a small town on the east coast of Greece, less than 20 miles from Athens. There, I talked to local people, and their experiences profoundly moved me. In a cafe that had survived the fire, a hub of safety and community for survivors, I met brave children who now have to live with terrible scars, physical and emotional. I met a man who could not even speak to me, his eyes filling with tears, and he told me that he had no words in a way that has stayed with me ever since.

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