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The UN's biodiversity chief says talks under way in Montreal are the last chance to save nature.

While an agreement by global governments to protect 30% of the world’s land and sea area by 2030 would likely dub the Montreal negotiations a success, more is needed on how to address the drivers of biodiversity degradation, say experts, or risk condemning targets to empty promises.

A French-headquartered startup that develops nature-based carbon credit solutions in the agricultural sector has raised €3 million in pre-seed funding.

Corporate climate goal-setting template provider SBTi has launched new guidance for the shipping sector, requiring maritime companies to reach net zero CO2 output by 2040.

Virginia cleared its first hurdle in leaving the RGGI bloc Wednesday morning when the Air Pollution Control Board (APCB) endorsed a draft proposal to rescind the state’s carbon market regulation, though some board members expressed concerns regarding their authority to scrap the programme.

Construction begins on first pumped hydro project that will help form a local microgrid and boost reliability for a township in the south of the state.

The post Construction begins on WA’s first pumped hydro renewable microgrid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

As European Policy (Senior) Manager, your role will be to work alongside IETA’s European Policy Director to ensure that IETA engages constructively with European policymakers and other stakeholders to advance market-based climate policies that meet the urgent need to decarbonise, and deliver the Paris Agreement’s net zero ambition.

The world’s second largest investment advisor Vanguard on Wednesday withdrew its membership from the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative, coming as Republican-led US states ramp up their attacks on ESG investing.

Offset standard developer and manager Verra on Wednesday provided further insight into the substantial number of project listings and verifications this year causing a backlog of VER issuances, and said it would provide further documentation to stakeholders to ward off potential delivery risk for commercial contracts.

Letter urges sponsors provide ‘corporate climate political influencing statements’ after 630 lobbyists attend Cop27

Senior Democratic senators have written to the head of the United Nations warning that public trust in global negotiations on climate action is at risk because of the scale of corporate lobbying – and new controls are needed.

Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Ed Markey of Massachusetts have sent a letter to António Gutierres, the UN secretary general, urging the UN to require sponsors and participants at future climate conferences to provide “audited corporate climate political influencing statements”.

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REDD forestry conservation credits have tumbled this week amid thin year-end demand and uncertainty over the impact of a UN decision to limit the role of offsetting in a future global crediting mechanism.

Leading researchers say the UN biodiversity summit is ‘vastly more important’ than the recent Cop27 climate meeting

The “fate of the entire living world” will be determined at the Cop15 UN biodiversity summit, according to leading scientists.

They said the gathering of the world’s nations, which began on Wednesday in Montreal, is “vastly more important than Cop27”, the recent high-profile UN climate meeting. “We say this because of the many dimensions of anthropogenic global change … the most critical, complex and challenging is that of biodiversity loss,” the researchers said.

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Locals desperate for lower bills, jobs and economic revival have been seduced by this plan, but they – and we – will suffer

Today, the government has thrown its weight behind a climate-busting, backward-looking coalmine in Cumbria. The staggering hypocrisy of demanding other countries phase down coal, just when we’re phasing it back in again, sends a truly terrible message to global south countries and marks this decision as a climate crime against humanity.

Given this, you’d be forgiven for wondering why a new coalmine appears to have garnered local support. Areas such as Whitehaven in west Cumbria have been told it will “level up” the community – bringing lower bills, more jobs and economic revival to areas that have severely lacked all three for generations. So when a private coal company turned up, the community, understandably nostalgic for its more prosperous past, bit their arm off.

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The Argentinian province of Cordoba sold out of all the limited carbon credit volume on offer at the government’s pilot auction last week, a media outlet reported Tuesday.

Michael Gove greenlights £165m project that will produce estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions a year

The UK will build its first new coalmine for three decades at Whitehaven in Cumbria, despite objections locally, across the UK and from around the world.

Michael Gove, the levelling-up secretary, gave the green light for the project on Wednesday, paving the way for an estimated investment of £165m that will create about 500 new jobs in the region and produce 2.8m tonnes of coking coal a year, largely for steelmaking.

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A greater-than-expected slump in EU power and gas consumption so far in Q4 is raising the prospect that parts of European heavy industry will never fully recover from the current extreme energy price environment, presenting a longer-term risk for carbon allowance demand.

Genetic material extracted from soil has revealed the ancient plants and animals of North Greenland.

As the government uses draconian laws to crack down on individuals, we must find new ways to protest and keep the public on side

The battle between climate protesters and the government is raging, and most people know who is in the right. The people trying to sound the alarm about the climate crisis are closer to mainstream opinion than those enabling fossil fuel corporations to make almost $3bn a day in profit while the planet burns.

Many in the government probably know it too, but to openly confront that reality would mean doing the unthinkable: pointing to corporate short-termism as the source of the crisis.

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