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Green ammonia offers great promise in a net-zero world, particularly as a fuel for long-haul transport and heavy industry. But it's not all good news.

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HB11 Energy signs bilateral agreement with Spanish researchers to develop hydrogen-boron fusion technology in both countries.

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California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices traded in step with macro sentiment, trending softer through most of the week but pushing higher on Thursday, while Washington regulators stepped in with emergency rulemaking provisions to dampen runaway prices.

Panama's environment ministry (MiAMBIENTE) and offset standards body Verra have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to help develop a national voluntary carbon market in the Central American country, according to an announcement on Thursday.

Behind all the noise, opinions, and stakeholders, lies one meta debate in the voluntary carbon market: Tommy Ricketts of BeZero Carbon asks what financial market structure should it ape?

Over a dozen Democrat-led US states this week asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to shore up language regarding the environmental integrity of voluntary offsets and carbon neutrality claims in order to prevent greenwashing.

A Toronto-headquartered voluntary carbon financier on Thursday announced it has executed a restructuring agreement that will consolidate the ownership structure of its developer arm and see the firm’s COO resign.

Ali Hussein Julood's father told the BBC his son's life was sacrificed for record profits.

Australia has half as much forest as it did before colonisation. Restoring it can be hugely expensive. But new approaches can help Penny van Oosterzee, Adjunct Associate Professor James Cook University and University Fellow Charles Darwin University, James Cook University Noel D Preece, Adjunct Asssociate Professor, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A carbon credit ratings agency downgraded its scores for seven carbon projects on Thursday, including a large REDD scheme in Cambodia that at one stage had been deemed as a highly-ranked activity by the company. 

The Washington Department on Ecology (ECY) announced Wednesday it is conducting an emergency rulemaking on the Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) ahead of the Q2 cap-and-trade auction, as Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) on the secondary market continue to trade above the mechanism’s Tier 2 trigger price.

A carbon credit ratings agency gave details about its views on hundreds of carbon projects on Thursday, depicting low grades for nature activities on carbon promises but higher scores on SDG benefits – while the company also commented on Verra’s proposed new approach to forest carbon crediting.

The 30th edition of the ‘Green Oscars’ was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London this week, celebrating seven grassroots conservationists identified after a worldwide search for locally led solutions to the global biodiversity and climate crises

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Record figures for month recorded in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, China and South Asia

Asia is experiencing weeks of “endless record heat”, with sweltering temperatures causing school closures and surges in energy use.

Record April temperatures have been recorded at monitoring stations across Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam, as well as in China and South Asia.

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Scaling finance for renewables is expected to come into focus at a high level event in Berlin next week, with experts suggesting that fresh pledges may be announced by the German organisers and the UAE, which will host the year-end COP28 UN climate summit.

Misguided introduction of alien predator saw partula snails driven from their habitat – but zoos have reared new populations

When French Polynesia was overrun by the invasive African giant land snail, another alien species, the predatory rosy wolf snail, was introduced to solve the problem.

Unfortunately the rosy wolf snail devoured tiny, endemic partula snails instead, hunting down the scent of their slime trails at three times the speed of a normal snail.

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Temperatures reach 38.7C in southern Spain today as an influx of heat from Africa brings summer early.

EU industry chief Thierry Breton reiterated his support for a new sovereign fund to support the energy transition on Thursday, telling a parliamentary committee that the scope of the investment vehicle would be considered over the summer.

South Pole (SP) is looking for a Clean Fuel Program Business Manager (CFP-BM) to strengthen our Climate Project’s team and play a key role in conceptualizing and assessing business opportunities arising out of regional Clean Fuel Standards (CFSs) also referred to as low-carbon fuel standards (LCFSs) and clean fuels programs (CFPs).

Sellers are dropping their prices for REDD avoided deforestation credits after a flurry of activity in the sector this week that triggered a brief rally in market value, sources told Carbon Pulse on Thursday.