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A jurisdictional REDD+ programme on Monday announced the formation of a technical committee led by four Indigenous and local community organisations from Latin America and Africa, which will help develop an optional certification for some of the non-carbon benefits of forests.

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RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices retreated over the last five days as warmer weather descended across the region, with a few notably low volume days recorded on ICE.

Members of the European Parliament mostly spoke well of the REPowerEU initiative to speed the bloc's exit from Russian fossil fuels in a debate on Monday, teeing up a vote to approve legislation a day later. 

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A carbon credit ratings agency has downgraded its scores for three Gold Standard-certified water purification projects in Africa as part of a review into the activity. 

Chinese wind energy company Envision Energy has unveiled a new onshore wind turbine, the largest of its kind.

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A recently retired Washington State Senator has teamed up with an investment executive and a climate strategy advisor and raised $14 million to launch a Seattle-based company to help corporations decarbonise. 

The Labor government wants to keep climate a quiet issue. But their latest projections show how dire the situation is.

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REDD+ avoided deforestation offsets ticked higher over the past week as the market looked to shrug off the recent negative press about widespread over-crediting in the voluntary carbon market, although the end of the week saw another project thrust negatively into the media spotlight.

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Critically endangered grasslands and productive farmland in NSW would be cleared to lay the Hunter Gas Pipeline. Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The shares of EKI Energy Services crashed on India’s BSE stock exchange Monday after the project developer reported a sharp drop in profits and its auditors flagged issues with how it recognised customer revenues.

The premium for UK Allowance prices over EUAs has evaporated after rising to over €32 in mid-2022, as UK emitters are thought to have largely finished replacing forward hedges in European permits with the British equivalent and the impact of a deeper recession begins to be felt.

German carrier Lufthansa will begin offering more expensive flights to customers with their emissions fully offset via a combination of a majority of carbon credits plus some sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), it announced Monday.

A senior politician in the forest-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has submitted a proposal to introduce a domestic carbon tax, establish an authority to govern market involvement, and push forward on the implementation of the country's nationally determined contributions (NDC), as the African nation seeks maximise revenues from its natural resources.

Jury found Helen Redfern, Simon Reding and Catherine Rennie-Nash guilty of public nuisance over 2021 Bishopsgate protest

Three Insulate Britain activists have been found guilty of causing a public nuisance by a jury for a two-hour sit-down blockade of traffic.

The three, Helen Redfern, Simon Reding and Catherine Rennie-Nash, were banned from talking about the climate crisis or the role of insulation in cutting greenhouse gas emissions as they presented their case to the jury at Inner London crown court. The same restriction has been placed on other Insulate Britain defendants in previous trials for public nuisance relating to peaceful protests taken as part of the group’s campaign for better insulation in UK homes.

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Scientists hope emerging research into new types of animal feeds will make aquaculture more sustainable

Most of the environmental effects of farmed chicken and salmon arise from the food the animals are reared on, new research suggests.

Animal feed given to farmed chickens and salmon account respectively for at least 78% and 69% of the industries’ environmental pressures, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology.

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The European Commission on Monday adopted rules seeking to define what constitutes renewable hydrogen as part of a fast-track lawmaking process.

Some of the world’s richest companies are hiding behind spurious ‘net zero’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ claims. A new report calls them out for greenwashing.

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