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Large middle-income countries like Brazil and China should top the priority list of biodiversity funding, analysts at BloombergNEF said Wednesday as they laid out options and priorities for the world to scale up nature finance to the required $1 trillion per year by 2030.

England and Scotland are experiencing a tick-borne virus outbreak. We don’t know the causes, but we know rising temperatures will mean more of them

Where I’m from, you can’t be considered a responsible outdoor person unless you’re willing to inspect your father’s naked body for ticks. Nova Scotia, on the east coast of Canada, has the dubious honour of being among the tick-iest places in the world. Surely these things are hard to measure, but reputable scientists claim it has the highest tick-to-person ratio in the country, and, at about one case of Lyme disease for every 1,000 residents per year, the highest incidence of Lyme disease as well. Walking outside on anything besides cut grass or concrete is likely to yield multiple tiny, near-indestructible arachnids that immediately make an upward dash for a warm crevice at the knee, armpit or often, groin, to burrow into. Finding and removing them can require a mirror and some contortions, or a helpful and unsqueamish friend or family member.

Things are – thankfully – not quite so bad in the UK. But the recent outbreak of potentially deadly tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in England and Scotland is a reminder that ticks are getting worse here, as well. The first suspected incidence of the disease in the UK was in 2019, and cases of Lyme disease also appear to be increasing over the past few years.

Stephen Buranyi is a writer specialising in science and the environment

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Swiss commodity trading firm Vitol and Nigeria’s sovereign wealth fund (NSIA) have completed a joint venture to invest in a range of carbon avoidance and removals projects in the oil-producing African nation, with an initial $50 million pledged, according to a release on Wednesday.

US software giant Salesforce released its Nature Positive Strategy on Wednesday, including details around strengthening its nature-related disclosure metrics as well as a $10-million spend on blue carbon credits.

EU carbon prices resumed their upward trend on Wednesday, setting a new three-week high as the market edged towards the €100 mark in increasingly thin trading ahead of the Easter break.

A viable investment case for near-zero emission steel projects is within reach in Europe and North America, opening up the possibility to put the steel sector on a Paris-aligned emissions pathway by 2030, according to a report released on Wednesday.

Authority given permission to challenge high court ruling in favour of landowner

Wild camping may once again be allowed on Dartmoor, after the national park was granted permission to appeal against a decision to ban it.

Alexander Darwall, who bought 1,620 hectares (4,000 acres) of the national park in 2013, took the park authority to the high court last year, arguing that the right to wild camp without a landowner’s permission never existed. In January, a judge ruled in his favour, ending the decades-long assumption that wild camping was allowed.

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Tony Gingiss, chief operating officer at the rocket firm, tells staff they "deserved better".

It is hoped a digital map of power cables, gas pipes and sewers will help avoid accidents.

Companies with industrial operations in Australia have announced new investment in decarbonisation tech following the passage of the strengthened Safeguard Mechanism through parliament, while the Western Australian EPA has published its final GHG guidance for heavy emitters.

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Massive 1.65GW offshore wind project gets jump on its NSW Hunter zone competitors, taking first step on environmental approvals.

The post Hunter offshore wind project gets cracking on environmental approvals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Windlab says Apple's exit from major wind project is due to a milestone miss, others suggest blowback from a stark public environment report.

The post Apple pulls out of off take deal for Andrew Forrest wind project in Queensland appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Marine Conservation Society calls for better regulation of how north-east Atlantic mackerel is caught as stocks decline

Mackerel populations are declining because of overfishing and the fish no longer a sustainable food choice, the Marine Conservation Society has said in its new UK guide to sustainable seafood.

North-east Atlantic mackerel has been considered an environmentally-friendly choice for consumers since before 2011, but the species has become increasingly scarce and now experts are calling for more regulation over how its caught.

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Australia's biggest solar farm has completed the installation of one million panels, and will shortly reach full production.

The post One million PV panels: Construction complete on Australia’s biggest solar farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Analysis by Wood Mackenzie finds Tesla falling well short of its Solar Roof installation targets, and warns other BIPV products may take the lead in US.

The post Tesla misses Solar Roof installation targets – by a long, long way appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Australian carbon credit provider has launched an online platform specifically catering for smaller volume transactions, in a bid to provide organisations with lower carbon footprints access to high quality credits.

Levels of fine particle pollution and mercury are up in Victoria and NSW, while Queensland tops the lists for all emissions.

The post Australian coal plants are producing less power, but more toxic pollution appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Brookfield announces "first of many" renewable projects in Australia – a 400MW Queensland wind farm with a co-located battery.

The post Brookfield kicks off Australian renewables splurge with 400MW wind farm and battery appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Oil companies shouldn’t lose sight of the long-term implications for their business models of an eventual peak in fossil fuel demand, despite their citing of energy security concerns and record-high profits on the back of high energy prices prompting sentiment to maintain robust oil and gas production levels, analysts have told Carbon Pulse.