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Andrew Forrest invests in breakthrough thin film solar PV tech that he says will deliver significant costs reductions and underpin his huge hydrogen plans.

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*PREMIUM LISTING – The Director of Fund Operations is responsible for providing strategic oversight and is the visionary behind the efficient flow of information, the procedures, and the planning required to make the NCS Fund a success. This position is central to the success of the Fund, and for enhancing the strategy and mission of Conservation International.

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Analysts expect prices to hit and potentially exceed $10/tonne for CORSIA-eligible voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) within months, despite urging caution over how the voluntary market will develop in the coming years.

Many valuable scientific breakthroughs were originally published in a non-English language. New research shows more effort is needed to transcend language barriers to improve conservation science. Tatsuya Amano, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Feral horses trample endangered plant communities, destroy threatened species’ habitat and damage Aboriginal cultural heritage — and their numbers are increasing. Don Driscoll, Professor in Terrestrial Ecology, Deakin University David M Watson, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Desley Whisson, Senior Lecturer in Wildlife and Conservation Biology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University Maggie J. Watson, Lecturer in Ornithology, Ecology, Conservation and Parasitology, Charles Sturt University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

*PREMIUM LISTING – The Program Manager will manage and coordinate TNC’s engagement with corporations around their natural climate solutions (NCS) approaches. This role is based within TNC’s Impact Finance and Markets Business Unit with an exclusive focus on our work on enabling conditions and project pipelines within carbon markets.

Industry bosses concerned energy crisis may cause production slowdowns and factory shutdowns

The risk of power cuts to factories and homes this winter has increased, the National Grid warned, as the business secretary prepared for a crunch meeting with industry bosses concerned the energy crisis may force them to scale back production.

The price of gas and electricity has soared in recent weeks, leading to the collapse of multiple energy suppliers and prompting warnings of higher costs for consumers, factory shutdowns and increased pollution as plants switch to dirtier but cheaper fuels.

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Fishmeal exports to EU from west Africa have grown sharply, depleting stocks and posing threat to livelihoods

Greenpeace activists have intercepted a 96-metre tanker in the Channel carrying fish oil from west Africa to Europe, to highlight the threat they say industry poses to food security and to livelihoods in the region.

Trade figures analysed by Greenpeace Africa show that fishmeal and fish oil exports from Mauritania alone have grown by an “alarming” 16% during 2020. Activists and locals say the industry pushes up prices and depletes stocks of fish eaten by local people across poor communities in Mauritania, Senegal and the Gambia.

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EUA prices found technical support at a six-week low below €58 on Thursday after the previous session's 9% plunge, while peripheral European energy markets continued to weaken amid significant volatility.

Since 1988, humans have destroyed an area of rainforest roughly the size of Texas and New Mexico combined

Shortly before his 44th birthday, in December 1988, the Brazilian rubber tapper and environmental activist Chico Mendes predicted he would not live until Christmas. “At first,” he said, “I thought I was fighting to save rubber trees, then I thought I was fighting to save the Amazon rainforest. Now I realize I am fighting for humanity.”

Mendes had received death threats for years. The threats escalated when an aggressive rancher laid claim to a nearby forest reserve, where he intended to burn and level trees to create pasture for cattle. The rancher hired gunmen to prowl around Mendes’s neighborhood. Mendes publicly opposed the rancher, and continued to advocate for the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon basin, saying Brazil must save the most biodiverse forest in the world. Destroy it, he said, and we, the human race, will end up destroying ourselves.

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Two Australian firms on Thursday signed an agreement to deploy and scale up a carbon credit-funded direct air capture (DAC) project that is expected to begin sequestering GHG emissions in 2024.

Highlights of the Royal Society of Biology’s photography competition 2021, from ants feasting on honeydew to zebras drinking in the savannah

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The environmental group had argued permission should not have been granted by the UK government for the Vorlich oil field.

Australia-headquartered miner BHP has announced its first carbon neutral copper transaction with Southwire, a US copper cable and wire manufacturer, the company announced on Thursday.

Climate groups concerned about presence in Glasgow of officers from forces known for heavy-handed tactics

Climate campaigners are worried an influx of officers from elsewhere in the UK will undermine Police Scotland’s commitment to rights-based policing of protests at Cop26.

Groups planning protests around the critical November conference have told the Guardian they are concerned about the presence of officers from forces known for their use of heavy-handed tactics and that it is unclear how they will be held to account for their behaviour.

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Two companies secured around 6.5 million, or 57%, of the NZUs sold at last month’s record-breaking New Zealand carbon auction, regulator data showed Thursday.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has outlined a pathway for reducing global methane emissions from fossil fuel operations by 75% by 2030 in a report released on Thursday.

Japanese trading house Mitsui and Cambodia’s environment ministry have begun procedures to get the first REDD project registered under the Joint Crediting Mechanism, expecting to earn some 4.2 million carbon credits by 2030.

Banning fishing does not mean populations simply bounce back, as scientists found off Scotland’s west coast

The closure of the Clyde fishery has led to the recovery of marine species – but not the same species as lived there before, according to a report.

Published in the journal Current Biology, the paper found the marine ecosystem of west Scotland’s Clyde Sea shows signs of recovery after a reduction in fishing pressure, but with sprat now the dominant species instead of herring.

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