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US software giant Salesforce announced a new partnership with a carbon credit ratings agency on Wednesday, boosting project transparency on its Net Zero Marketplace.

EUAs climbed by as much as 5% on Wednesday morning to approach €100, as technical buying and short-covering helped extend the rally that started in mid-January to €20 or over 25%.

Prices slid lower in the REDD+ avoided deforestation credit market on Wednesday as the fallout from media reports claiming widespread over-crediting in the sector continued to take its toll, despite certifier Verra this week dismissing the scientific reports underpinning the criticism.

Rosy-plumaged bird found wandering in city square was domestic king pigeon unable to fend for itself, wildlife group says

A pink-plumaged pigeon rescued from a New York City park may have been dyed for a gender reveal party, a wildlife group said.

The king pigeon was found wandering Madison Square Park in Manhattan and was taken into care, the Wild Bird Fund said.

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An initiative to plant mangroves along the coastline and on salt pan lands as well as a wetlands conservation scheme were the main nature-related headlines when India on Wednesday announced its 2023 state budget.

The government of Finland on Wednesday published a guide to good practices for the voluntary carbon market (VCM), that aims to both improve the reliability of the domestic market and also create opportunities for Finnish companies to utilise credits as part of climate strategies in a responsible manner.

Green growth will be one of seven priority areas for the Indian government’s 2023-24 budget, released on Wednesday in India’s parliament, which included an allocation of over $4 billion to help meet the country’s net zero goals as well as contribute to reaching its energy security objectives.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide say they have successfully split seawater without pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen.

The post University of Adelaide researchers successfully split seawater to produce green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Our response to climate change provides perhaps the greatest opportunity for investment, economic, export and employment growth Australia has ever seen. Can we harness it?

The post Our climate challenge is our greatest opportunity: So how do we get it right? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Taiwan has extended the sources of emissions offsets that can be used by local businesses when they expand production capacity or build new thermal plants, as part of the government's effort to realise net zero by 2050.

Data suggests male northern quolls rest less than females and spend much more time on the move, leading to their death after a single breeding season

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Male northern quolls seem to sacrifice sleep in favour of having sex, behaviour that might be responsible for their early deaths, suggests new research into the endangered marsupials.

Australian scientists have investigated why male northern quolls usually mate themselves to death after one season, while females of the species reproduce once but live up to four years.

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Photographer Paroma Basu followed three young Spanish women who have left urban careers and retrained through the Escola de Pastors i Pastores de Catalunya, one of a number of ́herding schools opening around the region

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Our insatiable appetite for meat is laying waste to the planet. But the alternative is looking (and tasting) better by the day

Do you hate the idea of animal-free meat? Many people do. Unsurprisingly, livestock farmers are often furiously opposed. More surprisingly, so are some vegans: “Why can’t people eat tofu and lentils, like me?” Well, the new products – plant-based, microbial and cell-cultured meat and dairy – are not aimed at vegans, but at the far greater number who like the taste and texture of animals. Many others instinctively recoil from the idea of food that seems familiar, but isn’t.

So here’s a question for all the sceptics. What do you intend to do about the soaring global demand for animal products, and its devastating impacts?

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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European research finds that increasing urban tree coverage to 30% can lower temperatures by 0.4C

Planting more trees could mean fewer people die from increasingly high summer temperatures in cities, a study suggests.

Increasing the level of tree cover from the European average of 14.9% to 30% can lower the temperature in cities by 0.4C, which could reduce heat-related deaths by 39.5%, according to first-of-its-kind modelling of 93 European cities by an international team of researchers.

The lead author, Tamara Iungman, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health, said: “This is becoming increasingly urgent as Europe experiences more extreme temperature fluctuations caused by climate change.

“We already know that high temperatures in urban environments are associated with negative health outcomes, such as cardiorespiratory failure, hospital admission, and premature death.”

Her team wants to influence policymakers to make cities greener, “more sustainable, resilient and healthy” as well as mitigating climate breakdown, she added, since heat-related illness and death are expected to present an even bigger burden to health services over the next decade than cold temperatures.

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Business groups are urging the government to implement the overhauled Safeguard Mechanism as political storm clouds brew ahead of parliament resuming next week, while Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) issuance remains steady.

When species naturally hybridise, the influx of genes can reduce their risk of extinction as climate change shrinks their habitats. Luciano Beheregaray, Matthew Flinders Professor of Biodiversity Genomics, Flinders University Chris Brauer, Postdoctoral Fellow Molecular Ecology Lab, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New research has found that lack of rest could explain why males of the species mate themselves to death.

Indonesia utility launches tender for another 100MW of floating solar as the archipelago seeks to grow its renewables supply.

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While data shows the fossil fuel industry yet again pouring money into Australia's major parties, the 2022 federal election changed the political donations game.

The post Fossil giants tipped funds into major parties, but then the climate movement fought back appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Should the capsule not be found immediately, we can’t just write it off as lost. A long term system of monitoring is needed to protect humans and the environment. Madison Williams-Hoffman, PhD Candidate in Environmental Radioactivity, Edith Cowan University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.