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Morocco plans to send renewable energy to Europe, but some want it to save it for its home market.

Four of the largest regulated entities under the Massachusetts Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) carbon market have emissions trending above 2023 allowance holdings, but should be able to satisfy compliance obligations through various channels given the plunge in Q1 emissions, according to a report published Wednesday.

The Brazilian Senate on Tuesday voted in favour of legislation allowing the sale of voluntary carbon credits from public forest concessions, leaving only President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to sign his predecessor's bill into law.

The Oregon Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) recorded its lone quarterly credit surplus of 2022 over the October-December period as low-carbon diesel alternatives outweighed greater deficits from fossil fuels, government data showed Tuesday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) prices this week shrugged off another large quarterly credit generation figure to approach an eight-month high, even as traders reported one of the largest refiners under the programme was heard selling units.

From September onwards, migratory birds will arrive on Australian shores. If one is carrying the lethal bird flu, it could devastate our birdlife Parwinder Kaur, Associate Professor | Director, DNA Zoo Australia, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

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Research says mining boom to support renewable energy risks ‘significant social and environmental damage’

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In the high-stakes quest to break China’s grip over minerals crucial to clean energy technology, Australia risks over-mining while ignoring alternatives such as improved battery recycling, according to a new report.

The release of the Jubilee Australia research, which questions mineral demand assumptions and warns against causing unnecessary environmental harm, comes as the federal government prepares a strategy to address China’s dominance of minerals seen as critical to a nation.

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Generation covered by the EU's carbon market across Italian utility Enel's power plants fell 5% year-on-year during the first quarter of 2023 as hydro output rebounded after extreme lows seen in 2022, while the IEA separately warned in an analysis that Italy must accelerate its renewables expansion to meet more ambitious climate targets.

A US private equity investment manager announced on Wednesday the launch of a natural resources fund investing in global forestry and agriculture assets combined with carbon sequestration.

A Toronto-based trader has parted ways with one of Canada’s largest financial institutions after spending more than a decade transacting products in European and North American compliance and voluntary carbon markets, Carbon Pulse has learned.

NatureScot warned there are likely too few pure-bred Scottish wildcats for the population to be viable.

Green group accused company of emitting more than it disclosed but TotalEnergies says report used dubious methodologies

The French oil major TotalEnergies has sued the environmental group Greenpeace France and the climate consulting firm Factor-X over a report claiming that the company massively underestimated its 2019 greenhouse gas emissions, Total said on Wednesday.

The civil complaint, served on 28 April, seeks a ruling that the November publication contains “false and misleading information”, a judicial order to withdraw the publication and cease all references to it under penalty of €2,000 (£1,760) a day in fines, plus a symbolic €1 in damages.

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A start-up decarbonisation platform has secured $250 million of additional financing from a global investment firm after the company won long-term contracts to deliver round-the-clock green energy to industries in India.

Analysis shows disadvantaged people are hit harder by the effects of airborne particulates, compounding existing inequalities

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Kerry-Ann Weirick’s asthma took a turn for the worse when she moved to the western Sydney suburb of St Marys.

“I was going to hospital two or three times a year with really bad breathing problems,” she says.

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Developers need to embed Indigenous leadership into projects in a way that is not fundamentally disempowering, and for this there must be lasting, genuine interactions between project developers and people on the ground, writes Isack Bryson of Carbon Tanzania.

Australia is looking to solve a major landfill problem as a quarter of the country's farms approach the end of their design life.

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European carbon prices gave up all the gains they made over the previous session early on Wednesday as market sentiment relaxed after the European Commission announced there would be no further EUA volumes added to market supply this year, as energy prices also crumbled amid wider risk-off sentiment.

New report says fossil fuel subsidies to hit record $57 billion, just a year after so-called "climate election".

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The former Vice President of Energy Transition for Shell USA is joining an Illinois-based carbon capture company as Executive Vice President of Growth and Strategic Projects, the company said in a press release Wednesday.