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Australia’s federal government has been hollowed out in recent decades. But states can – and still do – deliver. That’s why they are the main drivers of climate action. John Quiggin, Professor, School of Economics, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The soon-to-be Belgian EU presidency aims to conclude work on the bloc's mammoth Fit for 55 climate policy package and set the stage for post-2030 emissions cuts in time for elections that will signal the start of the new five-year political term.

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A major global environmental consultancy has hired four voluntary carbon market specialists to bolster its growing team.

A crypto asset management firm targeting ESG investors is launching a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with a 20% carbon allowance component, in an effort to create a 'carbon-neutral' investment offering in the crypto market.

Mining companies want biodiversity credits to enable them to go beyond offsetting to make nature positive claims, according to an executive at UK-headquartered The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC).

About 12% of birds have died out as result of human activity in past 120,000 years, say scientists

About 12% of the world’s bird species have been driven to extinction by human activity, new research has found – double previous estimates.

The study, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, estimates that about 1,430 bird species have died out since the Late Pleistocene period, which started about 120,000 years ago.

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Research on a skeleton dug up during roadworks have shed light on the history of Roman Britain.

Up to 10 million forward carbon credits from three host nations that will be authorised for corresponding adjustments, known as ITMOs, could be for sale in February in an auction, it was announced Tuesday.

The Reykjanes eruption will not cause same travel disruption as 2010's Eyjafjallajökull volcano.

The European Commission on Tuesday announced the results of the third call for small-scale projects under the bloc’s EU ETS-financed Innovation Fund, with €65 million being disbursed to 17 clean tech activities.

The Dec-24 EU Allowance contract began its stint as the benchmark contract with a steady morning on Tuesday, trading in a €1 range slightly below where it ended on Monday as energy markets gave up their gains from the previous session as traders appeared to decide the rally had been overdone.

Singapore on Tuesday published its long-awaited list of eligible carbon credit standards for domestic buyers when the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE) and the National Environment Agency (NEA) published the Eligibility List under the International Carbon Credit (ICC) Framework, which currently is limited to projects in Papua New Guinea only.

A global crop trader is retrofitting one of its chartered vessels with four wind-powered ‘suction sails’ in a move to reduce fuel consumption and curb CO2 emissions, following a suite of other cargo operators also benefitting from emissions-slashing sails.

Biden has a chance to show that the world’s biggest exporter of oil and gas is actually going to change its ways. It’s not clear if he’ll take it

More than 200 nations pledged last week in Dubai that they would be “transitioning away from from fossil fuels”. Some cheered and some scoffed; we’ll soon know if the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas – the United States – meant what it signed, or if it was just more (literal) hot air.

That’s because the US Department of Energy (DoE) must decide whether to stop rubber-stamping the single biggest fossil-fuel expansion on earth, the buildout of natural gas exports from the Gulf of Mexico. So far they have granted every export license anyone has requested, and as a result America has become the biggest gas exporter on planet earth. If they keep it up, veteran energy analyst Jeremy Symons says that before long US liquefied natural gas exports will produce more greenhouse gases than everything that happens on the continent of Europe.

Roishetta Ozane is the founder of the Vessel Project, a Louisiana environmental justice group

Bill McKibben is the founder of Third Act, which organizes people over 60 for action on climate and democracy

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Akaysha Energy gives green light to its third big battery project in Australia, a two hour battery next to a sewage plant in outer Brisbane, and reveals plans for another 1600 MWh battery.

The post Akaysha presses go on two hour big battery next to Brisbane sewage works appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A major Japanese trading house has partnered with two firms to create the first forestry-based J-Credits using drones for the MRV process, the company announced Tuesday.

A group of seven European countries have agreed to jointly decarbonise their electricity systems by 2035, they announced late on Monday.

ACX and Vietnamese player CT Group will explore building a carbon credit trading platform in the nation after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at the beginning of the month, which was announced Tuesday.

An independent government body has outlined five areas where New South Wales’ controversial state biodiversity market scheme could improve in a report published Tuesday.