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Submissions as part of a public consultation on removals methodology for the UN's new centralised crediting mechanism under the Paris Agreement have so far focused on the role of carbon capture and storage (CCS), tonne-year accounting methods, and ocean-based carbon projects, according to documents published on the UNFCCC website and seen by Carbon Pulse.

The European Space Agency on Tuesday announced a deal with a forestry management software company to provide more accurate carbon credit estimates through satellite imagery.

The European Commission kicked off work on a European Solar Photovoltaic Industry Alliance on Tuesday, one of the initiatives of the bloc's solar energy strategy under its REPowerEU initiative to speed the bloc's exit from Russian fossil fuels that is set to be partially funded by carbon sales.

The French region of Hauts-de-France has been awarded €228 million in grants under the EU's Just Transition Fund to address support communities impacted by efforts to decarbonising its polluting industries. 

EUAs declined on Tuesday morning as the market again tested recent support levels amid lacklustre trading, while energy markets forged higher amid forecasts for colder temperatures in the short term.

A new world record for the most power a single wind turbine has produced over a 24-hour period has been set by wind giant Siemens Gamesa.

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Autumn Water Watch survey aims to build national picture of pollution, plastic litter and invasive species

The public are being asked to take part in the first national water watch to survey rivers, streams and canals as part of a monitoring project.

The Autumn Water Watch aims to follow the success of the Big Garden Birdwatch and the Big Butterfly Count, in which hundreds of thousands of people record observations to feed into a national picture.

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England is finally protecting the beavers that could save our failing rivers – if they’re permitted to be released into the wild

On Saturday 1 October, something remarkable happened. The Eurasian beaver was officially recognised as both a “native” and a “protected” species under the Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017. In England, that means it is now illegal to deliberately kill, injure, or capture the world’s second largest rodent, or disturb their dams, lodges or burrows without a licence.

Essentially, the change is legislative wordplay, yet anyone with half an ear to the ground is heaving a sigh of relief. Instead of being classed as “no longer normally present” on the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, beavers are now “native”, placing them alongside the barn owl and the corncrake. Beavers in England join their Scottish cousins in the filing cabinet of animals under special protection – populations of which have been classified as European Protected Species (EPS) since 2019.

Sophie Pavelle is the communications coordinator for Beaver Trust. She is also an ambassador for the Wildlife Trusts, sits on the RSPB England advisory committee and is the author of Forget Me Not: Finding the forgotten species of climate-change Britain

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The Clean Energy Regulator has opened the second pilot window for market entities to exit their contractual arrangements with the government, as the issuance flow of Australian Carbon Credit Units steadies.

A carbon credit rating agency has given a major downgrading to a Cambodian REDD forest protection project, while nudging the scores of several other projects it had placed on watch.

A Europe-based investment platform joint venture has closed a fund after raising €2 billion ($1.94 bln) in what it described as the world’s first and largest pureplay clean hydrogen infrastructure fund to focus exclusively on the entire clean hydrogen supply chain.

Workers on urban fringe driving EVs would bring greater emissions cut as they’re more likely to drive larger, older cars on longer commutes

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Australian workers with long commutes should receive tax breaks for buying electric vehicles, according to a new report into the technology.

The recommendation was one of three policies proposed in a study from KPMG Australia that investigated the uptake of electric vehicles in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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Future farmers should be energy traders as well as animal or crop growers, but Australia needs new policy settings to get there.

The post Farmers keen to embrace solar, but hamstrung by export limits appeared first on RenewEconomy.

CSIRO says its new Towards Net Zero Mission will invest an initial $90m into R&D to help Australia's hardest to abate sectors halve their emissions.

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New Zealand has proposed a farm-level, split-gas approach to pricing agricultural emissions, and is seeking feedback on a consultation document as it searches for a way to bring down emissions in its biggest-emitting sector.

China is considering letting household rooftop solar power qualify to earn carbon credits that would be eligible for use in its national emissions trading scheme.

The solar component of Australia's largest wind and solar hybrid plant – to date – has started generating small amounts power.

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With federal Labor ruling out a ban on new fossil fuel projects, the Greens are likely to push for new Safeguard Mechanism Credits to be of high integrity.

The post Spotlight on integrity as consultation begins on Australia’s new emissions compliance market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists from Singapore have developed a low-cost “wind harvester” that can harness energy from wind as gentle as a light breeze.

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Scientists brought endangered species back from the brink by simply building more ponds.