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Japan’s Mitsui and Nomura have bought the world’s second largest forestry asset manager and major developer of carbon credits, they announced on Friday.

Cannon-Brookes says AGL coal generators will struggle to survive, and it needs a new board and should be offering customers loans to electrify their homes.

The post Cannon-Brookes says AGL coal plants will struggle to survive, needs new board appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Optus joins Telstra and TPG with a commitment to switch to 100% renewables by 2025, but no detail on how that will be done.

The post Optus pledges to be 100 pct “backed by renewables” by end of 2025 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Strike Energy signs offtake agreement to supply green-washed fertiliser to climate denial funders Koch Industries.

The post Green-washed urea facility strikes deal with climate opponents Koch Industries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The growth of "smart" farm machinery is increasing the risk of hacking of food and farming systems.

Australia’s policies prevent the necessary action to not only address cities’ contribution to climate change, but also to protect cities from its impacts. Anna Hurlimann, Associate Professor in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne Geoffrey Browne, Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Melbourne Georgia Warren-Myers, Associate Professor in Property, The University of Melbourne Judy Bush, Lecturer in Urban Planning, The University of Melbourne Sareh Moosavi, Post-doctoral researcher in Landscape Architecture, Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Carbon offset ratings company Calyx Global is looking for a manager for Sustainable Development Goals.

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The UK government has clawed back almost 400,000 carbon permits handed for free to emitters for 2021 after it was found that their output was lower than expected, imposing modest cuts for future years as a result.

Nathan Berryman and Kristal Bartlett have made the transition from coal mining and smelter work to green energy. But they say the path is still not clear.

The post From coal mine to battery giga-factory: Two tales of transition from the Hunter appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices rose to a one-month high this week as traders questioned why this would occur before the May 18 WCI auction, as RGGI Allowance (RGA) values lifted as entities rolled positions out on the curve.

This year's carbon permit sale volumes on the EU's Common Auction Platform are being slashed by almost 3%, exchange EEX announced late Thursday, in a surprise move resulting from an apparent calculation error.

Remember News Corp's big climate scare campaign from a few weeks ago? Turns out there was never any modelling behind it - just a clumsy guess.

The post How the Coalition’s deflated electricity scare campaign was (probably) confected appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Xpansiv market CBL cancelled executions made late Thursday after conducting an investigation regarding “potentially erroneous transactions.”

A pair of California cap-and-trade reform bills received approval from two appropriations committees on Thursday, moving now to their first floor votes before a deadline next week.

EM is seeking a Lead on Carbon Markets Research & Intelligence to focus on voluntary and compliance carbon market developments.

Developers with projects registered under the CDM are urging regulators to unfreeze post-2020 carbon credits to make them eligible for the voluntary and domestic carbon markets, aiming to keep revenues flowing ahead of the completion of a new carbon crediting mechanism under the Paris Agreement.

Despite the growth of renewable energy, Australia’s per capita coal emissions of 4.04 tonnes a year is nearly four times the global average

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Australia had the highest levels of greenhouse gas pollution from coal per person than any other developed country in 2021, according to new data.

But the data shows per capita greenhouse gas emissions from coal fell sharply last year, with a surge in solar and wind energy seeing per capita rates drop well below the average of the previous five years.

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Fewer laying birds are being placed on farms as producers respond to poor retail profit margins

Consumers could be hit with higher egg prices as UK farmers reduce their flock numbers, in response to escalating costs and insufficient profit margins.

The numbers of chicks being placed by egg producers in April was down 15% year on year, according to the latest government figures.

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Exclusive: Pollutants can upset body’s metabolic thermostat with some even causing obesity to be passed on to children

Chemical pollution in the environment is supersizing the global obesity epidemic, according to a major scientific review.

The idea that the toxins called “obesogens” can affect how the body controls weight is not yet part of mainstream medicine. But the dozens of scientists behind the review argue that the evidence is now so strong that it should be. “This is critical because the current clinical management of obese patients is woefully inadequate,” they said.

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