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Research finds tropical mammals suffer impact of deforestation even if they live in protected areas

Wildlife sanctuaries fail to fully protect tropical animals from harmful human activities, a major study has found.

Mammals including the jaguar, the mountain gorilla, and the Sunda pangolin were all found to be affected by human activities, even when they resided in the depths of a nature reserve.

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European carbon prices shrugged off an early jump and resumed their weaker trajectory on Monday morning as most markets absorbed the weekend news from Russia and pared early gains.

Japan over the weekend held the first meeting for senior officials under the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC), a regional initiative to decarbonise the region where it intends to use the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) to drive hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) developments.

The British government will prioritise the integration of removals into both its domestic Emissions Trading Scheme as well as international carbon markets when developing a business model for scaling such technologies, it said in a published consultation response on Monday.

South Korea's market regulator should step in to support demand and safeguard quality in the nation's emerging voluntary market as well as in the ETS, according to market participants.

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) published its inaugural set of G20-backed global rules designed to help regulators crack down on greenwashing and improve trust and confidence in corporate disclosures.

A platform building an open-access global climate transition-related data is to work with a national financial regulator to test the structure ahead of its launch at November’s COP28 UN climate talks.

The Australian government and the Clean Energy Regulator have refuted claims made by a new study that suggested that up to 25 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) from historic human-induced regeneration projects were junk. 

Wind farm noise is as disruptive as road traffic noise, Flinders University researchers find.

The post Wind farm noise and infrasound do not affect sleep, new studies say appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The spot price for NZUs fell by nearly 10% on Monday as the market continues its free fall following the release of a consultation on the redesign of the ETS.

Findings come as nations gather in London to discuss new carbon levy

Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a potential new tax on carbon produced by ships.

Emissions from maritime transportation amount to about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and there are few alternatives to the cheap, heavy and dirty diesel oil used by ships.

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A drone pilot captures footage of a humpback whale following a kayaker near Bondi beach. Up to 50,000 whales are expected to pass Australia’s east coast during the annual migration from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef. Humpback whales were removed from Australia's threatened species list last year after a significant increase in numbers, from just 1,500 at the height of the commercial whaling industry to an estimated 40,000

• Young humpbacks ‘full of beans’ as whale-watching season takes off in Sydney

• Humpbacks spotted having whale of a time at underwater ‘day spa’ off Gold Coast

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Energy storage hopeful edges closer to demonstrating "Perth-built" vanadium flow redox flow battery using "cutting edge" technology from South Korea.

The post Vanadium flow battery hopeful edges closer to Australian manufacture appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Siemens Energy says the bill to fix its troubled wind division could pass the €1 billion mark, as it scrambles to get on top of high turbine failure rates.

The post Siemens scraps profit guidance as wind turbine problems generate $1.6bn bill appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Seawalls are causing intertidal habitats to vanish as ocean levels increase. But eco-entrepreneurs say artificial rockpools and crevices can save wildlife

• ‘It’s absolutely guaranteed’: the best and worst case scenarios for sea level rise

The rain has just stopped falling when Nigel George walks down to the beach in Sandown Bay on the Isle of Wight. He crosses the coastal road and descends a concrete stairway, a sheen of sand covering its lowest steps. The place is quiet, with only a few walkers animating the shoreline.

He’s here to inspect a wooden groyne – a kind of jetty, designed to prevent erosion – which stretches out into the sea and towards France. The groyne has been fitted with a series of small, basin-like, rough concrete, structures. George peers inside one: a congregation of limpets, barnacles, seaweed, and a single sea snail peer back at him.

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Australia’s beloved billabongs are filling up with eroded soil from farms, leaving little room for the aquatic animals that depend on these vital drought refuges. John Tibby, Associate Professor in Environmental Change, University of Adelaide Jonathan Marshall, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Australian Rivers Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The lack of consensus among major developed market economies on phasing out coal may hinder cooperation and the effectiveness of Indonesia’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) and other emerging market climate financing initiatives,  a report has found.

The price of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) has reached its lowest point this year, one week from the reformed Safeguard Mechanism taking effect, as the market is swamped with supply amid low demand.

Industry experts warn new rules imposed on wind and solar projects will force developers to re-assess their projects and consider taking their investment elsewhere.

The post The “nonsense” rules that threaten to scupper dozens of wind and solar projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Most technologies for CO₂ removal are expensive. But New Zealand could be doing this cheaper than other countries, taking advantage of existing geothermal and forestry industries. David Dempsey, Senior lecturer, University of Canterbury Karan Titus, PhD Student, University of Canterbury Rebecca Peer, Lecturer, University of Canterbury Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.