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A US-headquartered carbon offset trader and originator has secured a project pipeline that exceeds 1 billion tonnes, with the firm also aiming to transact over 50 million VERs this year separate from its own initiatives, company executives told Carbon Pulse.

Spain-based wind energy giant wants to invest billions in the development of gigawatts of new utility-scale solar and wind – including in Australia.

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The ‘stickering’ of houses under section 124 of the Building Act, and decisions about when it’s safe to return, need to be informed by science. Affected communities should be involved at every stage. Martin Brook, Associate Professor of Applied Geology, University of Auckland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Businesses are discovering tweaks that can dramatically reduce the environmental impact of their websites.

The UK's largest landowner has launched the first round of formal engagement with industry stakeholders on Carbon Capture Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) technology, issuing a survey on the market requirements specifically for future seabed and subsurface carbon store development.

Queensland Labor says it will build the $5bn transmission link that promises to unlock gigawatts of new renewables and power major industrial and mineral growth.

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RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices last week ended lower, continuing a month-long stretch of mostly losses and defying bullish drivers from an upcoming programme review as well as recent analyst projections for a steep Q1 auction settlement this week.

The British Columbia government has announced it will next year introduce an output-based pricing system (OBPS) for large stationary sources of GHG emissions, allowing industries an alternative to regulation by the Canadian province’s economy-wide carbon tax.

A Houston-based integrated environmental asset validation, blockchain registry, and exchange firm has announced securing conditional approval for the launch of an environmental credits digital platform operating out of the Bahamas, and has already listed millions of carbon offsets from avoided oil extraction.

Liquidity picked up in the voluntary carbon market as March started, but prices generally slipped lower amid the weight of surplus credits. 

Voters in the region have long been seen as caring more about their finances than green issues. But living through extreme heat, rain and floods has them focused on living with climate change. Declan Kuch, Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Malini Sur, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Stephen Healy, Associate Professor, Human Geography and Urban Studies School of Social Sciences/ Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University Sukhmani Khorana, Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The government is failing to make good on Britain’s net zero pledges to the world

Last summer, the Climate Change Committee (CCC) delivered a 600-page assessment of the United Kingdom’s journey towards net zero targets. The scathing conclusions could be summed up in a single sentence: Westminster continues to talk the talk, but a lack of follow-through means the country is failing to walk the walk.

In too many areas, the CCC found, goals were being undermined by failures in delivery programmes. There was a “shocking gap”, it reported, in policymaking to drive better insulation of homes. Progress on reducing farming emissions had been “glacial”. The bald conclusion was that the “current strategy will not deliver net zero” by 2050, as legally required.

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Matthew Tulley, 44, Ben Taylor, 38, George Burrow, 68, and Anthony Hill, 72, were part of a blockade at Bishopsgate in 2021

Four climate activists who blockaded a street in London in a campaign to press the government to insulate homes have been found guilty of public nuisance.

A jury at Inner London crown court found the protesters, who are members of Insulate Britain, guilty on Monday after a four-day trial.

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The nature presenter returns to TV screens to explore the natural history of Britain and Ireland.

The nature presenter returns to TV screens to explore natural history in Britain and Ireland.

Climate Action Data Trust is recruiting a Technical Director to support the work the CAD Trust. The candidate will report to the Executive Director and will be responsible for implementing the Information Technology (IT) and technical aspects of the CAD Trust.

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

Emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past 1.5C of global heating, unless high-methane foods are tackled.

Climate-heating emissions from food production, dominated by meat, dairy and rice, will by themselves break the key international target of 1.5C if left unchecked, a detailed study has shown.

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Cote d'Ivoire has signed an MOU with a local and a foreign developer to explore the development of reforestation carbon credit projects in the country.

Regulations were updated after an outcry over gene-edited babies but a leading expert says they don't go far enough.

Sheep are descended from a ‘mouflon’. Yes (yes!)

The wind is blowing: it is the wind that changes the seasons, hot to cold. It blows and blows until the season knows it is time to sit on its suitcase, overstuffed with things that happened, zip it up and travel to the other side of the world.

Sometimes, the season gets trapped for a week, like a little whirlwind of leaves, or one leaf on a small plant going round and round, or moving in a figure eight: an incantation. You get one last period of very cold or very hot. You are trapped, too, like a sheep in its wool: you are in the present, there is no going forward until the season is on its way.

In Things I Don’t Want to Know, Deborah Levy is carrying her luggage up a steep path on a mountain in Spain. “The smell of wood fired in the stone houses below and the bells on sheep grazing in the mountains and the strange silence that happens in between the bells chiming suddenly made me want to smoke.”

What was natural was hedgerows, hawthorn, skylarks, the chaffinch on the orchard bough. You had never seen these but believed in them with perfect faith [...] Literature had not simply made these things true. It had placed Australia in perpetual, flagrant violation of reality.

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