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The seventh instalment of Carbon Forward - the premier annual carbon markets conference - is back next week, and it's stacked with a first class line-up of speakers ready to discuss the risks and opportunities across the rapidly evolving global climate policy landscape.

IRENA's Michael Taylor on wind and solar costs and grid integration. Plus: AGL and the price of energy.

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The large-scale energy storage promise of ultra-high energy density zinc-air batteries is looking up, after a breakthrough from researchers in China.

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FFI is moving to final stages of planning and finance for the conversion of Incitec Pivot's Brisbane commercial-scale ammonia plant to run on renewable hydrogen.

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CCAs are projected to rise to the first allowance price containment reserve (APCR) trigger by 2027, while RGAs are forecast to prompt a cost containment reserve (CCR) trigger price by 2024, according a report issued Thursday by a London-based analytics firm.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices rallied alongside broader markets over the last week after nearly two months of declining price action.

A Brazilian bank has voluntarily cancelled the largest ever batch of carbon credits issued under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

EUAs inched up on Thursday following a strong auction but failed to match the previous session's move above €70, as traders fretted about the potential for the EU to advance more carbon sales to help pay for the REPowerEU's initiative.

Global financial service group Macquarie announced a new partnership on Thursday to establish a pipeline of “high-quality” nature-based carbon offset projects, with the aim to help corporates and other clients advance their climate commitments.

Tackling this global problem requires an international effort – particularly by rich nations where the demand for exotic pets is increasing. Freyja Watters, PhD candidate, University of Adelaide Phill Cassey, Assoc Prof in Invasion Biogeography and Biosecurity, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Experts claim deadly spillovers of disease between livestock and wildlife are increasing with the growth in intensive methods

Catastrophic declines in the number of birds and other wildlife are likely if countries do not act urgently to change the way animals are farmed, wildlife health scientists have warned.

The unprecedented die-off of seabirds from highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI) being witnessed in breeding colonies across Europe, North America and Africa has been traced back to a commercial goose farm in southern China where a relatively mild bird disease mutated into a killer in 1996.

After spilling into wild bird populations in 2007, HPAI has spread around the world, killing millions of birds and showing no sign of stopping.

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After nearly a decade of stalling and delaying on climate action, Australia has a new government that promises new policies and has set new emissions reduction targets – 43% by 2030. But the key question now is whether or not that will be enough. Guardian Australia has been tracking progress in cutting greenhouse gas emissions and documenting the consequences of the global heating that has already occurred

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Although last year’s UN COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow ended with an agreement to “accelerate efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal”, almost half of the companies tracked by NGOs in a global database are still heading in the opposite direction.

'People are saying the climate crisis is real, only because it has knocked on the door of the global north,' says Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate activist.

Africa accounts for 15% of the world’s population but 4% of greenhouse emissions – compared with 23% by China and 19% by the US. 

More than 18m people in the Horn of Africa risk starvation after years of drought, but the countries suffering the worst effects of climate change did not cause this global crisis. 

Here Nakate speaks about this climate injustice, ahead of next month's Cop27 climate summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, when countries from across the global south will call for billions of dollars of  financing for adaptation, the transition to green energy, and climate reparations.

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Sunlight may soon shine into the opaque world of carbon credit use, with offset disclosure a key requirement under forthcoming corporate reporting rules – paving the way to credibility and integrity assessments at both the investor and policy-maker levels.

In its role as president, China has sent invitations only to ministers and NGO heads, raising fears it is downplaying the crucial talks

China has not invited world leaders to a major nature summit being held this year, raising concerns Beijing is downplaying the crucial Cop15 meeting in order not to embarrass Xi Jinping.

In December, governments will finalise a UN agreement to halt the destruction of the natural world at a summit organised by China but hosted in Canada. Because of Beijing’s zero-Covid policy and after several delays, Cop15 was moved to Montreal, the seat of the UN convention on biological diversity. It was meant to take place in Kunming, Yunnan province, in 2020.

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There are a lot of challenges to overcome before carbon pricing systems can spread across Africa, experts told an event Thursday, despite recent announcements across multiple nations in the region that flagged markets in development.

Met police confirm arrest of 25 climate campaigners for blocking road in central London

Twenty-five supporters of Just Stop Oil have been arrested after blocking traffic in central London, on the sixth consecutive day of protest by the group.

At about midday on Thursday, two groups of protesters with the climate activist campaign walked into the road and stopped traffic at the roundabout by Trafalgar Square.

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A new report asks what we could get for the $11.6 billion Australia spent on fossil fuel subsidies last year. The low emissions options are endless.

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Norway is introducing a floor price for its indirect EU ETS cost compensation scheme to shield its energy-intensive industries from carbon leakage as the government seeks to rein in future costs.