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The Senior Officer, Climate will lead the day-to-day management of GGGI Lao PDR’s Climate Unit.

The Senior Officer, Water and Sanitation will lead the day-to-day management of GGGI Lao PDR’s Water Unit.

California regulator ARB began the year by issuing more compliance offsets than during the final two weeks of 2022, while entities voluntarily retired a large batch of credits over the previous three months, state data published Wednesday showed.

Steep Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices should abate as the state commences quarterly auctions and moves towards linking with the California-Quebec scheme, while fuel suppliers are reportedly gouging customers by justifying compliance with the carbon market and Clean Fuel Standard (CFS), Department of Ecology (ECY) officials told a legislative committee on Wednesday.

Australian technology that mimics the capillary action of trees and plants promises to deliver green hydrogen at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels.

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Ratcliffe-on-Soar to be kept viable until late 2024 after ministers make request prompted by energy crisis

A Nottinghamshire coal-burning power plant will stay open for two years beyond its planned closure date after a call from ministers prompted by the UK’s energy crisis.

Ratcliffe-on-Soar had initially been pencilled in to shut in 2022, but last year said it would have an initial extension until 31 March 2023.

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An imbalance in emissions obligations in the EU's second carbon market and fears about manufactures' ability to sell their products abroad were the focus of stakeholder criticism at an event on Wednesday taking stock of last month's legislator agreements on the bloc's carbon market-related reform bills.

California should consider numerous changes to its cap-and-trade programme that would ratchet down annual allowance supply to hit the state’s GHG reduction targets, and also study how no-trading zones could benefit air quality in disadvantaged communities, according to a watchdog report published Tuesday.

A carbon removals marketplace has agreed a partnership with the First Movers Coalition, adding to the companies providing member firms access to carbon removals to help them fulfil their buying mandates.

Study suggests the thousands of dams clogged with sediment pose a threat to water supplies

Thousands of the world’s large dams are so clogged with sediment that they risk losing more than a quarter of their storage capacity by 2050, UN researchers have concluded, warning of the threat to water security.

A new study from the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health found that, by mid-century, dams and reservoirs will lose about 1.65tr cubic metres of water storage capacity to sediment.

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Globally, the air is getting hotter and drier, which means flash droughts and risky fire conditions are developing faster and more frequently. Albert Van Dijk, Professor, Water and Landscape Dynamics, Fenner School of Environment & Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Molly Sampson found an Otodus megalodon shark species tooth at a beach near her home in Maryland while hunting for fossils

For Christmas, nine-year-old Molly Sampson and her sister Natalie, 17, asked their parents for one thing: insulated waders, to “go shark’s-tooth hunting like professionals”, said Molly’s mother, Alicia Sampson.

When the waders arrived from Santa, Molly told the Guardian, she declared that she would be looking “for a Meg”, or megalodon tooth, and ventured to Maryland’s Calvert Beach to hunt fossils on Christmas Day with Natalie and their father, Bruce Sampson.

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A leading climate platform and carbon credit provider announced a partnership on Wednesday which will broaden the scope and volume of carbon removal credits available to its customers.

This is the year of "polycrisis" where risks become more interdependent and reciprocally damaging, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in its annual risk report published Wednesday ahead of the think-tanks annual Davos talks that predicted climate risks will dominate the challenges over the next decade.

Environmental services firm Anew Climate has agreed to invest as much as $640 million in nature-based carbon project developer Terra Global Capital, an Anew executive said on Wednesday.

Head of carbon credit system review says absolute emissions cuts must be priority, as Albanese government weighs up limits on use of credits

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The head of a review of Australia’s carbon credit system says polluters must make deep cuts in their own greenhouse gas emissions and not rely heavily on offsets – paying for emission cuts elsewhere – if the climate crisis is to be addressed.

Prof Ian Chubb, a former chief scientist who headed the Albanese government’s review of the carbon credit scheme, said he backed a UN expert group recommendation that companies should prioritise absolute emissions cuts consistent with the goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C, and offsets should be used only “above and beyond” that.

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European carp – an invasive species – are breeding in huge numbers, putting smaller native fish under pressure as they stir up the water and damage aquatic vegetation. John Koehn, an adjunct professor at Charles Sturt University’s Gulbali Institute, says the massive carp spawning event is not unusual for wet times and it will be months before it is known how many of the carp survive to adulthood

• After a year of rain, towns at the end of Australia’s giant river system await the slow, inevitable deluge 
• Mosquito population explosion plagues flood-ravaged NSW – video

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A pilot study by the agriculture department in 2013 detected chemicals not found by the self-regulatory system

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The pesticide testing Australia relies on to pick up chemicals in fresh fruit and vegetables sold domestically routinely picked up far fewer breaches than a government study in 2013.

Unpublished results of a 2013 pilot study for a national produce monitoring system (NPMS) by the federal agriculture department have been revealed under freedom of information laws.

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Xpansiv has closed a $125 million capital raise to help fuel continued growth, the environmental markets platform announced on Wednesday, while confirming the completion of last year’s acquisition of emissions brokerage Evolution Markets.

Fast action in global gigafactory race is happening outside UK, as Swedish pacesetter shows

In a fantasy world, the would-be rescuer of Britishvolt would be a consortium that included a car manufacturer or two. The ailing startup would instantly get what it needs most after six months of crisis: endorsement for a battery product that is still in development, plus some , future customers.

At that point, the big political claims made about Britishvolt, its planned gigafactory in Northumberland and “the UK’s place at the helm of the global green industrial revolution”, as the former prime minister Boris Johnson put it a year ago, would start to sound more credible.

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