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Andrew Forrest sees quick pay-back from dumping fossil fuels, and urges the world to follow.

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Japan plans to gradually increase domestic carbon prices over the next decade to help drive deeper emissions reductions and raise funds for decarbonisation, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has said, according to local media reports.

Gas prices are rapidly coming down, but the long term doesn't look good as wind and solar continue to beat gas on price.

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An Australian-based financial company has raised A$55 million ($35 mln) to go towards nature-based carbon credit projects and the roll-out of its data and analytics platforms.

With effective regulation, Australia’s offshore wind industry can be a leader in ecologically sustainable development.

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Latest finding adds to theory that animals, including humans, naturally arrange things in a certain order, even without being able to count

Bees order numbers in increasing size from left to right, a study has shown for the first time, supporting the much-debated theory that this direction is inherent in all animals including humans.

Western research has found that even before children learn to count, they start organising growing quantities from left to right in what has been called the “mental number line”.

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Two Korean environmental and consumer rights groups have filed legal complaints over claims made by a major industrial conglomerate that the use of offsets from a controversial South American forestry project makes its engine oil product ‘carbon neutral’.

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Gravity storage proponent Energy Vault strikes another big battery deal, this time with a proposed solar farm in Victoria.

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British Airways has partnered with a climate tech firm to create a new platform for passengers to manage and offset their flight emissions.

At least a dozen species display this 'bad habit' and now scientists want to know why.

Scientists say they now understand more about the mysterious role of epigenetics in cancer growth.

The nature repair market is sold as a good news story: willing land managers benefiting nature with support from the private sector. But if offsets are part of it, the reality could be very different. Megan C Evans, Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, UNSW Sydney Martine Maron, Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Victoria Greens issued call for new rules to consider how major development projects affect – and will be affected by – climate change.

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A carbon credit ratings platform has hired a senior executive from data and research firm Fitch to steer and expand commercial opportunities.

The UK government has again tweaked free carbon allowance allocations for heavy industry over the first five years of the country’s ETS, holding back a further 140,000 permits from emitters.

A Canada-based financial services company on Wednesday announced it will purchase carbon removal credits from a Nova Scotia-headquartered firm specialising in decarbonising concrete.

California regulator ARB boosted its compliance offset distribution this reporting period before the Nov. 1 interim cap-and-trade compliance deadline, according to government data published Wednesday, though the year-to-date issuance still lags levels reached in 2021.

EU member states reported that they used 76% of their 2021 ETS auction revenues for climate and energy purposes, the European Commission said in a report published on Wednesday detailing the bloc’s progress on climate policy over the past year.

California regulator ARB has the existing statutory authority to continue its WCI-linked carbon market past 2030, while a simple majority vote from the state's progressive legislature could stave off legal challenges to the agency’s extension of the programme, a law firm has argued.