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Battery electric trucks offer larger and more certain emission cuts than trucks powered by hydrogen in the quest to reduce Australia’s stubbornly high transport emissions. Robin Smit, Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A group of companies making up a third of the global mining and metals industry on Wednesday committed to taking actions that will halt their negative impact on biodiversity by 2030 and support a nature positive future.

There is method in the oil conglomerate’s decision that the best candidate for CEO is the one already doing the job

After a “robust and competitive” hunt for a new chief executive, the board of BP has decided that the best appointment is the bloke who has been sitting in the boardroom for three and a half years already and doing the job on a stand-in basis since the defenestration of Bernard Looney last September.

No surprise there. BP has never appointed a boss from outside, and Murray Auchincloss, the former chief financial officer, fits the bill as a continuity candidate. He has been in the company for 25 years and is wedded to Looney’s – and chair Helge Lund’s – strategy of “orderly” transition to net zero by 2050 or sooner. He did the numbers on the approach, after all.

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The European Commission will start work on a CO2 transport regulatory package under the ETS, according to a leaked draft of the upcoming industrial carbon management strategy (ICMS) seen by Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

Products and services billed as climate neutral, biodegradable or eco must provide proof, with carbon schemes banned as evidence

Terms such as “climate neutral” or “climate positive” that rely on offsetting will be banned from the EU by 2026 as part of a crackdown on misleading environmental claims.

On Wednesday, members of the European parliament [MEPs] voted to outlaw the use of terms such as “environmentally friendly”, “natural”, “biodegradable”, “climate neutral” or “eco” without evidence, while introducing a total ban on using carbon offsetting schemes to substantiate the claims.

Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X for all the latest news and features

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Indigenous Peoples must be involved in shaping the nascent biodiversity market, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) co-chair has said.

The US-led Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) jurisdictional carbon crediting mechanism to phase out coal globally could be a key lever to helping reach the goal to triple renewables to at least 11,000 GW globally by 2030, said outgoing US climate envoy John Kerry in Davos on Wednesday.

Startups in the durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market face a race to drill down production costs after price per tonne topped a poll as the key factor for buyers, in a 2024 outlook published Wednesday.

Total is 20% higher than thought and may have implications for collapse of globally important north Atlantic ocean currents

The Greenland ice cap is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, a study has revealed, which is 20% more than was previously thought.

Some scientists are concerned that this additional source of freshwater pouring into the north Atlantic might mean a collapse of the ocean currents called the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc) is closer to being triggered, with severe consequences for humanity.

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A Swiss carbon capture firm has opened its next series of funding in order to expand its operations and add new storage sites across Europe and the UK, it announced on Wednesday.

A Montreal-based carbon removal project developer has partnered with a Germany-based direct air capture (DAC) company to install a new carbon removals facility in Canada, they said Wednesday.

A new environmental commodities investment company has launched with the aim of delivering flexible financing options for carbon removal and reduction projects and access to high-quality carbon credits at scale.

Despite a drop in fly-tipping on public land, farmers say they are being targeted by criminal gangs.

Newer carbon credit vintages played a significantly more influential role in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in 2023, as increased buyer scrutiny and the diminishing role of older credits looks set to signal an important trend change, analysts have said.

Companies in the European Union will be banned from misleadingly marketing their goods as "carbon neutral", under a law endorsed by EU parliamentarians on Wednesday. 

EU carbon steadied at slightly lower levels on Wednesday morning as traders absorbed the weekly Commitment of Traders report and sought directional signals from a market that appears to have found a temporary floor, while energy prices continued to decline despite more reports of vessels being diverted away from the quickest route to Europe.

Growth in China’s thermal power generation in 2023 outpaced the growth of total power output amid continued coal expansion and a shaky economic recovery in the world's biggest emitting nation, government data showed Wednesday.

Carnegie Clean Energy has deployed a demonstration of its wave powered barge concept in waters offshore from the company's WA headquarters.

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A Derbyshire man who was caught on camera stealing peregrine falcon eggs has been jailed for 18 weeks. The footage was taken in April 2023 from a hidden camera put in place at a quarry near Bolsover by an investigations team at the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. Eggs from wild peregrine falcons can sell for tens of thousands of pounds overseas. Christopher Wheeldon, from Darley Dale, was seen abseiling down a cliff and stealing three eggs. He admitted to disturbing the nest and was sentenced in January

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My dad was completely flooded in on his boat, with just a ukulele and three potatoes to tide him over. A bad situation, certainly – but still a better bet, perhaps, than those of us living in bricks and mortar

My dad lives on a boat. Despite the earrings, tattoos, missing teeth and bare feet, he is not a pirate – just a man with an expensive divorce and a public sector job, living in one of the most unaffordable cities in the UK.

This month, his mooring in Oxford was hit by the kind of flood described as “once in 100 years”. Except the same thing happened 10 years ago. And three years before that. All along the same stretch of water.

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