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Making his last major speech before the election, Anthony Albanese says stronger climate action could help repair Australia's diplomatic relationships.

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Researchers reveal a major breakthrough in renewable energy technology by using Earth’s radiant infrared heat to generate solar electricity in the dark.

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Energy, Carbon and Potash team within BHP Sales & Marketing is seeking a Principal Carbon Offset for its Carbon Desk to execute the carbon offset strategy in alignment with BHP’s Climate Change Strategy.

After bushfires, floods and numerous IPCC reports, the Morrison-Joyce government still has a 2030 emissions reduction target set by Tony Abbott.

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"Decarbonisation, not defossilisation" is the new catchcry of a fossil fuel industry as new climate research points to tipping points.

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Traders believe a depressed macroeconomic environment and higher costs of capital will limit speculator bids at Wednesday’s California-Quebec carbon auction, which could lead to the current vintage auction settling more in line with the secondary market than the previous two WCI sales.

Amid the rapid emergence in recent months of a crypto carbon market, the Gold Standard and partner organisations are now preparing to launch working groups to explore digital MRV, best practice principles for blockchain carbon assets, and technology infrastructure for the offset market.

The big climate and biodiversity assessment reports are too few and far between. The world needs much more regular reporting for action and adaptation to keep pace. Mark John Costello, Professor, Nord University Katherine Kelly, Research Affiliate, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

As the Director, Forest Carbon Origination, you will join our growing carbon offset origination team where your core focus will be on originating forest carbon offset projects across Canada.

A UK study says record-breaking temperatures in NW India and Pakistan are now 100 times more likely.

Forrest resumes executive role at Fortescue, hires ex AGL boss Andy Vesey and names former head of GE Europe as new FFI CEO.

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An insolvent district heating plant in Romania has been fined for EU ETS non-compliance for a second straight year.

The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Tuesday published its draft WCI-modelled cap-and-trade regulation, lowering the programme’s emissions baseline compared to the agency’s previous thinking and proposing the same allowance floor and ceiling prices as the California carbon market.

Toxic air, water and soil are ‘existential threat to human and planetary health’, says global review

Pollution is killing 9 million people a year, a review has found, making it responsible for one in six of all deaths.

Toxic air and contaminated water and soil “is an existential threat to human health and planetary health, and jeopardises the sustainability of modern societies”, the review concluded.

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A US-based soil carbon startup has raised $18 mln in Series A funding from investors including Bloomberg and Microsoft.

Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has nominated four members to Virginia’s Air Pollution Control Board (APCB) in a move that sets the stage for plans to unravel the state’s RGGI linkage this summer.

Emitters in the RGGI cap-and-trade programme added carbon permits in between the Mar. 9 sale and the end of the month, as prices retreated on the secondary market, according to a report published Tuesday.

More countries are likely to follow the move by the Indonesia government, which has halted the issuance of carbon credits from projects in the country until it has finalised its new carbon policy, a major carbon credit company said in a conference call Tuesday for its quarterly results.

Ultra long-haul flights make it possible to go Sydney to London non-stop. But does the world need them, given they are more polluting and less efficient? Susanne Becken, Professor of Sustainable Tourism and Director, Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University Paresh Pant, PhD Candidate and Sessional Academic, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.