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A Toronto-headquartered voluntary carbon credit investor is looking to diversify its existing portfolio of clean cookstove projects with an afforestation and reforestation (AR) endeavour, while reporting a net loss in the fourth quarter, according to a recent financial filing.

Why has the federal government not released a climate security report from the intelligence community? Was the government shocked by what it was told?

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On March 29th, a group of climate leaders including Zeke Hausfather of Stripe, Alicia Seiger of Stanford, Elizabeth Sturcken of Environmental Defense Fund, Zack Parisa of NCX, and moderator, Shyla Raghav from CO2 – TIME gathered in NCX’s “Treehouse” in San Francisco to discuss and debate the challenges facing nature-based solutions, and the voluntary carbon market. Here are a few takeaways from their discussion.

Bringing emissions from road transport and buildings into the EU ETS could result in a near 50% reduction in the economic costs of achieving the bloc's climate policies, compared to scenarios that include launching a second regional cap-and-trade market to regulate those two sectors.

Environment Agency says system trialled during strikes will continue for now despite false alarms and late warnings

The flood warning system relied on by hundreds of thousands of households in England will be put on permanent autopilot, officials have said, despite warnings it is inaccurate.

The Environment Agency has been trialling an automated flood warning system since December, when strike action by workers over years of below-inflation pay deals left gaps in incident rosters.

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At launch of cleaner water plan, minister says those who say they can end problem are ‘detached from reality’ or dishonest

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Thérèse Coffey has admitted she cannot end the sewage scandal, in what critics are calling a “complete abdication of duty”.

Launching her department’s cleaner water plan at the London Wetland Centre in Barnes in the south of the capital, the environment secretary said upgrading the sewage network to stop spills could add hundreds of pounds each to people’s bills.

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A Finnish technology company has launched an artificial intelligence-based product designed to track and monitor forest biodiversity and carbon storage in near real-time.

Australian project developer AgriProve has announced a partnership with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Grantham Foundation to improve soil carbon monitoring protocols.

EUA prices pressed higher for a sixth session on Tuesday morning, reaching another three-week high in very thin trading as the holiday period has stripped the market of liquidity before falling back to stand broadly unchanged, while energy prices sank and gave up much of their sizeable gains from Monday.

The EU and US highlighted their “greater than ever” relationship at an Energy Council ministerial meeting in Brussels on Tuesday, while EU leaders will have a more challenging time this week trying to warm up relations with China on the other side of the world.

Australia to play key role in 50th anniversary ministerial of IEA - once an instrument of the fossil fuel lobby but now leading calls for rapid transition.

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Exclusive: UAE’s fossil fuel boss will be the president of Cop28, making a mockery of the summit, say campaigners

The United Arab Emirates, which is hosting this year’s UN climate summit, has the third biggest net zero-busting plans for oil and gas expansion in the world, the Guardian can reveal. Its plans are surpassed only by Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

The CEO of the UAE’s national oil company, Adnoc, has been controversially appointed president of the UN’s Cop28 summit in December, which is seen as crucial with time running out to end the climate crisis. But Sultan Al Jaber is overseeing expansion to produce oil and gas equivalent to 7.5bn barrels of oil, according to new data, 90% of which would have to remain in the ground to meet the net zero scenario set out by the International Energy Agency.

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A team of carbon market experts has launched a company that seeks to unlock capital at scale for nature-based solutions (NBS), focusing on projects in the Global South, they announced on Tuesday.

From the Iberian lynx to the Chilean devil ray and mountain gorilla, these stunning images by some of the world’s best nature photographers appear in The New Big 5: A Global Photography Project for Endangered Wildlife, by photographer and Guardian contributor Graeme Green. The book was borne out of a project to create a big 5 of photography rather than hunting, shooting with a camera, not a gun

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The satellite launch company has failed to secure new investment after a rocket launch failed.

Maori business groups have slammed the New Zealand government for forcing participants of a consultation to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) over an exotic forestry proposal in the ETS.

One of the more outspoken critics of the early closure of the country's biggest coal generator named energy minister in NSW.

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Australia battery developer says its next generation solid state lithium sulfur batteries pack in more energy density and are safer.

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Perth-based company wins gong for its unique technology that turns lithium-ion battery waste into usable battery metals.

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