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Innovative solutions, a focus on quality, and local investments and partnerships could improve Canada’s ambitious 2 Billion Trees programme that was found falling well short of its targets and 2031 forecast goals at its first audit, experts told Carbon Pulse.

The UAE has revised its Paris Agreement emissions pledge, with the host of the upcoming COP28 UN climate summit setting an absolute GHG cut goal for the first time while flagging plans for an emissions trading mechanism.

Certifier Gold Standard has paused issuances of carbon credits from projects based in Zimbabwe until it learns more about the government’s plans to take revenue from such activity.

A new report outlines a comprehensive strategy for Australia to reduce the carbon footprint of our homes while making them more comfortable and affordable. Ralph Horne, Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University Julie Lawson, Adjunct Professor, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Louise Dorignon, Vice-Chancellor Postdoctoral Research Fellow, RMIT University Trivess Moore, Senior Lecturer, School of Property, Construction and Project Management, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Disturbing news about the potential for widespread crop failure as the climate changes should send shockwaves through governments around the world. Time to rethink global trade and food security. Douglas Bardsley, Associate professor, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Legal attempts to block Virginia’s planned exit from the RGGI cap-and-trade system may be filed on the same day that Governor Glenn Youngkin’s (R) repeal regulation will be published in the state registrar, an environmental lawyer told Carbon Pulse on Tuesday.

Climate change is relentless and largely predictable, but it is influenced by natural variability. This means the largest temperature rise usually comes at the end of an El Niño event. Kevin Trenberth, Distinguished Scholar, NCAR; Affiliate Faculty, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The European Parliament's position on the highly contested nature restoration bill remained in the balance on the eve of a crunch vote on Tuesday, with efforts to craft a compromise struggling to gain traction.

A coalition of large cargo owners, including the world’s largest online retailer Amazon, announced it is pooling demand to request zero-emission shipping services by 2025, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

Auction volumes offered at RGGI’s Q3 auction will decrease slightly after last quarter's uptick, the power sector cap-and-trade scheme’s notice showed Tuesday.

A report suggests they are using sharp metal deterrents like humans do - to keep pests away.

Plutonium spike in Canadian lake sediments marks dawn of new epoch in which humanity dominates planet

The site to represent the start of the Anthropocene epoch on Earth has been selected by scientists. It will mark the end of 11,700 years of a stable global environment in which the whole of human civilisation developed and the start of a new age, dominated by human activities.

The site is a sinkhole lake in Canada. It hosts annual sediments showing clear spikes due to the colossal impact of humanity on the planet from 1950 onwards, from plutonium from hydrogen bomb tests to the particles from fossil fuel burning that have showered the globe.

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The EU’s executive arm is aiming to make the transport of goods more efficient and sustainable via a new proposal it announced on Tuesday, despite a number of the bloc's leaders and parliamentarians calling for a pause in green legislation.

Academics have proposed implementing a global carbon tax whereby different goods and services are subjected to varying levels of pricing according to their considered necessity for basic human life, with luxury services to receive a higher levy than food and heating energy use.

Environment Victoria calls for Andrews government to end opposition to commonwealth water purchases in order to save river

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The recovery of 140 threatened species in Victoria depends on the restoration of environmental flows in the Murray-Darling basin, according to new research commissioned by Environment Victoria.

The report found the Australasian bittern, Australian painted snipe, Sloane’s froglet and Murray cod were among the species at very high risk of extinction and called on the Andrews government to end its opposition to commonwealth water purchases when ministerial talks about the Murray-Darling basin plan resume in coming months.

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Binybara, also known as Lee Point, is sacred. Traditional owners, bird watchers, ecologists, activists and lawyers were standing shoulder to shoulder as bulldozers neared

The Gouldian finch is a pint-sized bird with a rainbow presence – the life of the party when it’s able to live and fly freely. Like all else belonging to this continent and its adjacent islands, it has endured displacement and dispossession. It is now the unnecessary collateral damage of the extinction economy, as scientists continue to warn against sleepwalking across a threshold of no return.

Last week, in the middle of NAIDOC Week and during the hottest week ever recorded, bulldozers began ploughing through the sacred grounds of Binybara, colloquially known as Lee Point. With the Northern Territory’s rapidly expanding military presence, Binybara is being sacrificed for defence housing.

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A Canadian carbon removals company has secured $80 million in new investment.

Sustained weak industrial demand in the EU is to keep the bloc's compliance carbon prices under pressure during H2 as bearish fundamentals could push EUAs towards "fair value" in the €80-85 range, analysts said in a report published Tuesday.

Carbon credit exchange operator ACX has teamed up with Colombia-based registry EcoRegistry and certifier Cercarbono for the development of the voluntary carbon market, with the aim of facilitating trades and further expanding its supply base.

Catastrophic floods around the world are triggering warnings of the climate crisis intensifying, with communities feeling the effects of July's extreme weather. Torrential rain has flooded homes and caused extensive damage in New York's Hudson valley while in China, thousands of people have been displaced. In Spain, people could be seen clinging to their cars and climbing nearby trees to escape the flood water and in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh, where fatal landslides blocked about 700 roads, flash floods destroyed a bridge and filled streets with debris

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