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The tools and technologies to decarbonise freight transport in New Zealand are available now. The problem lies in their integration and the understanding of potential trade-offs. Patricio Gallardo, Researcher in Transition Engineering, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A carbon accounting platform for supply chains is set for quick expansion after raising $10 million in series A funding, it announced Tuesday.

Environment secretary urges Britons to embrace the filth as Labour seeks to flush out Conservative failures

Day two of the Unicorn Kingdom. A world where fantasy always outdoes reality. That fair and septic isle. Who needs to go for a walk by a canal or river? Why bother to go to the beach? All you need to do is have a dump at home. Where to have an open cesspit is the latest status symbol. The estate agent’s dream. Your very own swimming pool. What more could anyone want?

To be fair, Thérèse Coffey has done more to level up the country than any of her cabinet colleagues. Though, technically speaking, one should call it levelling down. For on the environment secretary’s watch there isn’t a river in England that isn’t hopelessly polluted and subject to sewage overflow many times a day.

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The government must do its bit to make new electric vehicles more affordable if mass adoption is to be achieved on the road to net zero

When the government controversially scrapped its discount on the purchase of electric cars last summer, the move was justified on the grounds that its work was done. After 11 years of subsidies, said ministers, the electric vehicle revolution had been “kickstarted”. As Britain strives to meet a 2030 target to end the sale of new petrol and diesel vehicles, that judgment is beginning to look a little complacent.

Amid ongoing economic headwinds, data has emerged that suggests a drop-off in current demand for electric cars, despite notable public enthusiasm for their adoption in principle. Auto Trader, which hosts the country’s largest car sales website, reported this month that inquiries in relation to new electric vehicles had fallen significantly compared with last year.

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The EU is advancing on incentivising and regulating carbon removals as part of its efforts to reach net zero emissions by mid-century, an NGO said on Tuesday as it unveiled its policy tracker tool, adding a warning that the lack of coordinated vision and uneven efforts could jeopardise progress.

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The slump in REDD avoided deforestation prices triggered a flurry of trades on Tuesday for older vintages of some well-known projects in the sector, brokers reported.

A US-based carbon offset firm has secured a $5 million investment, it announced Tuesday, bringing it closer to its fundraising goal.

Offices of Citibank in New York and Wells Fargo in San Francisco targeted by activists urging shareholders to act

As they exited their office in Tribeca on Monday afternoon, Citibank employees were confronted with a boisterous crowd chanting and dancing along to the music of a mariachi band.

It was a funny sight: New York banking professionals in black and gray business attire coming face to face with a loud, colorful group on a mission to engage in a conversation about the climate crisis.

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The EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) will have a disproportionate effect on low- and middle-income countries, according to a study published this week that supports the argument for revenues collected at the border to be recycled back to vulnerable trading partners.

MP Chris Skidmore says approval would undermine UK’s efforts to tackle climate crisis and its claims to leadership on world stage

• Opinion: I can’t let ministers trash our net zero pledge

The government’s former “net zero tsar” has urged ministers to halt the development of the Rosebank oilfield in the North Sea, or risk destroying the UK’s credibility on the climate crisis.

Chris Skidmore, the influential Conservative MP who led the review of the UK’s climate goals, writes in the Guardian on Tuesday of his concern that the development could derail net zero.

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The Irish minister for agriculture has called for the rewetting of peatlands to be included in the European Commission's definition of carbon farming, during a meeting in Luxembourg on Tuesday.

Only the United States, Russia and China have successfully landed a spacecraft on the Moon.

A legislative vote is slated to take place in Ecuador in the coming weeks, with the potential to greenlight carbon market development in the heavily-forested South American country after years of inactivity.

EUA prices fell for a ninth time in ten sessions on Tuesday morning as sentiment continued to weaken, even as ministers formally approved ETS reforms and the launch of a carbon border adjustment mechanism, while UK carbon permits shrugged off the bearish continental trend to rise for a second day.

Roadmap to stop use of substances including ‘forever chemicals’ used to implement bans on 14 chemical groups so far, report states

A plan to ban up to 7,000 of the most potentially dangerous chemicals on the European market by 2030 is failing badly, according to a study.

A year ago, the EU launched a roadmap to banning groups of toxic substances linked to environmental damage and serious illnesses such as cancers, hormonal disruption and reprotoxic disorders. These included all bisphenols, the most dangerous flame retardants, and the increasingly controversial PFAS chemicals (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances).

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The global low-carbon project pipeline has accelerated in the past year to reach over 400 projects in the first quarter of 2023, driven by green hydrogen projects as last year’s elevated gas prices have taken the shine off prospects for fossil-fuel based projects equipped with CCS, analysts told a webinar on Tuesday.

Agreement between grouse moor managers and conservationists had also aimed to restore populations

Illegal killings of birds of prey have led the Peak District national park to end an agreement between grouse moor managers and bird conservationists aimed at protecting raptors.

The partnership was set up in 2011 and sought to restore bird of prey populations in the park. The rare birds have historically been killed by gamekeepers and others because they predate on grouse populations, which are maintained for shooting.

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China should consider implementing a secondary model within its national spot power market that interfaces with the existing local markets to accelerate the decarbonisation of the country's power sector, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).

EU member states on Tuesday gave their approval to a series of provisional deals aiming to put shipping, buildings and road transport under carbon pricing, impose a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), and launch a Social Climate Fund.