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Primary supply in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has continued to thin this month amid ongoing backlogs at key registries, helping lift offset prices from the bear market earlier in the summer.

The Malaysian state of Sarawak’s forthcoming framework for generating offsets from forest carbon activities must learn from international examples as well as comply with standards that are set globally, the region’s premier, Tan Sri Abang Johari Openg, said on Friday.

‘Really lousy’ garden wins contest on island of Gotland that aims to promote water conservation

Residents of Sweden’s largest island have been competing to determine which of them has the ugliest lawn.

The competition is an effort by the municipality of Gotland to promote water conservation. After the island, located in the middle of the Baltic Sea, received a record-breaking number of visitors and residents last summer, its politicians realised that it needed to make drastic changes to save its water supplies. Gotland’s population doubles during the summer months and this places a heavy demand on water reserves and limited groundwater supplies.

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Exclusive: Experts warn drought could be start of three-year cycle with dire impacts on wildlife and environment

River-flow rates in England have been lower this summer than at any time in the past 21 years, data has shown, and could be much worse next year, with dire impacts on wildlife and the natural environment, conservation experts have warned.

Analysis since 2002 of England’s groundwater, reservoir levels and river flows – three key indicators for the severity of drought, and for river health – shows that July this year was the worst in that period.

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Weekly trading volume in China’s national emissions market fell below 100,000 units over the past week, as the lack of policy direction continues to mute trading activity.

Australia will introduce a biodiversity crediting scheme which will operate in parallel with the nation’s carbon offset market, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced Friday, as minting of new Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) came off from recent lofty levels.

Australian power and gas company Origin Energy has set a new target to reach net zero Scope 1-3 emissions by 2050, as well as raised its short and medium term emissions targets for 2023 and 2030, as it released its first climate change transition action plan (CTAP) on Friday.

Environmental activists stage sit-down protests, blocking entrances and gluing themselves to pumps

Environmental protesters have taken action at petrol stations in central London, vandalising pumps, blockading entrances and spraypainting “no new oil” across signs.

The Just Stop Oil campaign said 51 of its supporters took part in the protests at seven petrol stations on Friday morning. Some groups staged sit-down protests at entrances or glued themselves to pumps, while others moved from station to station damaging pumps.

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A number of beaver families have created the wetland in east Devon in less than a year.

Government to build centre on mainland instead following community campaign against the development

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The Western Australian government has abandoned plans for a $3.3m “discovery centre” on Penguin Island following a community campaign against the development.

Reece Whitby, the minister for environment and climate action, made the announcement on Friday, saying in a statement that following a scientific review and community consultation, the proposed centre would be shifted to the mainland.

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A major fertiliser plant is set to be constructed in the Pilbara, potentially impacting as many as 20 ancient rock art sites. Nicole Curtin, PhD Candidate, Charles Darwin University Clinton Walker, Tourism operator, Indigenous Knowledge Tracy Woodroffe, Lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Oz Minerals is positioning itself as a global leader in mining “modern” metals that will underpin the global shift to electric vehicles and renewable energy.

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Hope for the best, and plan for the worst. Delaying emission reductions is playing Russian Roulette with the climate and our future.  

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Snowy Hydro CEO resigns suddenly as questions grow about the government utility's two signature projects - Snowy 2.0 and Kurri Kurri gas.

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Origin Energy's first Climate Action Transition Plan has some definite positives, but is coming under fire for greenwashing gas out of its 2030 targets.

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The Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organisation (TGO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with offset standard developer and manager Verra to support the implementation of the Southeast Asian country’s voluntary emissions reduction programme, known as T-VER.

Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said the world narrowly avoided a 'radiation disaster' when the last regular line supplying electricity to Ukraine’s Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was temporarily cut by shelling.

'The world must understand what a threat this is: if the diesel generators had not turned on, if the automation and our station staff had not reacted after the blackout, then we would have already been forced to overcome the consequences of the radiation accident,' Zelenskiy said. 'Russia has put Ukraine and all Europeans in a situation one step away from a radiation disaster.'

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Senegal has become the 18th nation to sign up to Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), with a view to begin generating carbon credits aligned with regulations under the Paris Agreement.

There have been some big bets placed on shipping green hydrogen and gravity storage. Energy expert Michael Barnard dissects the hype and the hope.

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Germany makes global "railway history" with the commencement of the world’s first regular operation of hydrogen-powered trains.

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