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Academics have fired another broadside at the voluntary carbon market (VCM) with a new paper claiming improved forest management (IFM) projects are belching out hot air.

UK power producer Drax has paused its BECCS plans in the UK until it gets more clarity over how the government will support the technology, it said on Tuesday.

The UAE has a political commitment to steer this year's UN COP28 climate negotiations that is not undermined by being an oil producing country, according to Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Shoukry, who led the COP27 event last year.

EU emissions goals could be put in jeopardy by a compromise between France and Germany as the two major powers seek to promote their own interests in separate elements of the bloc's climate policy, observers warned on Tuesday.

Councillors vote to chop down trees in Coton Orchard for busway from Cambridge to Cambourne

Hundreds of trees in an orchard designated as a habitat of principal importance in England should be felled to build a new busway to tackle climate change, councillors in Cambridgeshire voted on Tuesday.

The county council voted by 33 to 26 to approve a new public transport busway, which will use optically guided electric or hybrid buses on its route, to provide links between Cambridge and Cambourne, an expanding new town eight miles outside the city.

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Carbon trading and advisory firm ClearBlue Markets has raised $8 mln in a Series A funding round led by Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

A pact to phase out fossil fuels in November’s UN climate talks is the only credible response to the warnings of scientists

Yesterday the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a new synthesis report. The document is important because 195 governments commissioned it and the summary was agreed line by line. It is accepted fact by nations worldwide, and a shared basis for future action.

The report’s conclusions are terrifying and wearily familiar. Every region is experiencing “widespread adverse impacts”. Almost half the world’s population is “highly vulnerable” to climate change impacts. Expected repercussions will escalate rapidly. It concludes that there is a “rapidly closing window of opportunity” to secure a livable future.

Simon Lewis is professor of global change science at University College London and University of Leeds

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European carbon prices clawed back several days of losses on Tuesday morning, rising to their highest since Mar. 16 as options traders eyed the expiry of the March contract tomorrow, while energy prices steadied after sharp declines on Monday.

South Korea has proposed to lower its 2030 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector, while planning to expand its domestic carbon sequestration programme and purchase more credits from abroad under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Calls to place quantitative limits on Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in the Safeguard Mechanism are unfounded, and would render the scheme inert, according to analysis released Tuesday, as an industry head hinted Australia would be unsuccessful in its bid to host COP31 if it failed to get the scheme up and running.

Regulation may allow ‘hydrogen-ready’ boilers that can run on fossil fuel gas, and are unlikely ever to use hydrogen

Ministers are preparing to allow new houses to continue to be fitted with gas boilers, long after they were supposed to be phased out, campaigners fear.

A loophole being considered for the forthcoming future homes standard, a housing regulation in England intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from newly built homes in line with the net zero target, would allow new homes to be fitted with “hydrogen-ready” boilers.

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Members of the Menindee community are trying to come to terms with how another mass fish kill incident has occurred in the Darling-Baaka River. 'This is an Australian disaster and it should be treated as such: like a bushfire, like a flood. Fish kills and unhealthy river systems have got to be taken seriously," says Barkandji woman Denise O’Donnell

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• ‘All this here will kill this river’: traditional owners grieve for the Darling-Baaka after mass fish death
• Flood and heat: why millions of fish are dying in western NSW

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In case they missed the message from the IPCC, UN chief delivers the cold hard facts on climate and fossil fuels. Will Australia respond?

The post UN says Australia must quit coal by 2030, reach net zero by 2040, no new coal or gas appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia continues to support unlimited growth in fossil fuel production and export, flying in the face of the latest IPCC report. Mapped: 67 new coal, and 49 gas/oil projects. Richard Denniss, Adjunct Professor, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

New study calls for comprehensive “product stewardship scheme” for solar panels, that puts whole-of-life responsibility on shoulders of the producer.

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AGL Energy has launched a website to simplify the process of quitting gas and accessing the benefits of a more electric and energy efficient home.

The post Australia’s oldest gas power company urges customers to go electric appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Another 12 community-scale, grid connected batteries will be rolled out in Queensland's solar soaked regions, starting in Emerald.

The post New two-hour battery joins bid to “bank” rooftop solar and allow more installs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The compact EcoFlow Power Kits are simple to setup and support a variety of charging methods.

The post EcoFlow offers smart modular power solutions for campervans and off-grid living in Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A wonky skull. Enlarged ear chambers. Asymetrical ears. It looks like the elusive night parrot has traded off vision for excellent hearing Elen Shute, Researcher, Flinders University Alice Clement, Research Associate in the College of Science and Engineering, Flinders University Gavin Prideaux, Associate professor, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.