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The European Parliament, Council, and Commission late Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on the regulation of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F-Gases), in what was expected to be the final climate-related trilogue negotiation before the summer break.

The Plan Vivo Foundation and biodiversity data startup Pivotal have announced a new partnership as they aim to deliver their first biodiversity certificates by the end of 2023, the companies announced Thursday.

Campaigners say cheap flights, made possible by tax breaks for airlines, are encouraging people to heat the planet

Europe’s cheap flights and pricey train tickets promote dirty forms of transport, campaigners say, with “outrageous” tax breaks encouraging people to heat the planet as they head on holiday.

Train tickets are double the price of flights for the same routes, on average, according to an analysis from Greenpeace published on Thursday. The campaigners compared tickets on 112 routes on nine different days. To get from London to Barcelona, they found, the cost of taking the train is up to 30 times the cost of jumping on a plane.

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A San Francisco-based startup that uses generative AI to help companies transition to clean power has secured nearly $6 mln in seed funding and has signed an agreement with a prominent carbon removals firm.

A non-fatal crocodile attack on a tourist last week made headlines. But talk of culling is an over-reaction to a fairly isolated incident. Brandon Michael Sideleau, PhD student studying human-saltwater crocodile conflict, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A row has erupted in Tanzania after the Ministry of Environment imposed a raft of hefty new fees on voluntary carbon projects that developers warn will derail current activity and discourage future investment in the African country’s nascent market.

The planet is being hit with a double whammy of global heating in 2023: on top of the rise in global temperature caused by greenhouse gas emissions is an emerging El Niño. This sporadic event is the biggest natural influence on year-to-year weather and adds a further spurt of warmth to an already overheating world. The Guardian's environment editor, Damian Carrington, explains what El Niño is and how it affects extreme weather

• Climate-heating El Niño has arrived and threatens lives, declares UN

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A new platform plans to provide an up-to-date, detailed, and verified snapshot of the health of a forest by integrating multiple technologies at the same time.

Members of the European Parliament's cross-party industry committee (ITRE) on Wednesday backed the European Commission's proposal to tackle high energy prices and energy supply issues.

The Kariba REDD+ project, ranked as the world's second-largest in the voluntary carbon market, has reportedly suspended operations due to uncertainty following a Zimbabwean government directive that developers must relinquish more than half their revenue.

The EU’s newly-proposed STEP funding platform for clean and digital technology will not meet the needs of the bloc’s industry amid increased competition from the US and China, lawmakers from across the political spectrum told a European Parliament hearing on Wednesday. 

Counter terror police have raided the homes of a swathe of Australian environmental activists.

These incidents are spreading – and along with them, bogus narratives casting the killer whales as marine avengers

In the opening sequence of the BBC’s original Blue Planet series of 2001, TV’s first real look at life within the world’s oceans, a pod of orca are shown hunting a grey whale and her calf. Over and over, the killer whales jump on the calf, pushing it under the waves, determined to drown it. Once it is finally dead, after a six-hour battle, they eat only its lower jaw and tongue.

I vividly remember watching this as a 10-year-old in 2001 and thinking: I wouldn’t like to take on a killer whale. Lately, however, their attention seems to have turned uncomfortably close to home. In the past few years, a pod of orcas has been ramming boats in the waters off south-west Europe at seemingly increasing rates. From 52 such “interactions” recorded in 2020, there were 197 in 2021, 207 last year and a steady number so far this summer. In three cases, the orcas have damaged boats so badly that they have sunk.

Elle Hunt is a freelance journalist

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The winners of a UN-sponsored clean cooking innovation challenge have been announced, with four “promising” solutions selected to help ease developer access to finance and streamline carbon credit issuances.

The push for higher-quality carbon credit methodologies is driving increasing convergence between compliance, voluntary, and Article 6 markets that is creating bigger demand and greater opportunities for investors, a conference heard Wednesday.

Leveraging Netflix’s innovative and fast paced culture, help Netflix attain its public climate targets to cut our emissions in half by 2030 and (as of 2022), to annually bring our remaining net carbon footprint to zero by investing in the power of nature to capture carbon.

Technocratic tinkering and cautious managerialism can’t begin to address the crisis. We need vision – and now

Some would argue that the speech by Tony Blair at Labour’s 1994 party conference in Blackpool was era-defining. “It is time to break out of the past and break through with a clear, radical and modern vision for Britain,” he said.

One may disagree with that vision – but he committed to it years before his election, and delivered much of it in the years after. Huge investment in public services; a minimum wage; a Freedom of Information Act; devolution for Scotland and Wales, and commitment to peace in Northern Ireland.

Caroline Lucas is the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion

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A voluntary carbon market standard has approved a methodology co-developed by one of the world's biggest food trading companies that will enable beef producers to measure methane emissions reductions from altering the diet of cattle and receive credits for the resulting mitigation. 

Italy's Agnelli family extends its interests beyond Fiat, Ferrari and Juventus to become a major backer of the developers behind Australia's biggest wind and battery project.

The post Italian billionaires buy into renewable developer behind Australia’s biggest wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.

European carbon prices were little changed at midday Wednesday, after a strong opening in line with the previous day's closing price faded amid a sell-off in energy markets, while weekly positions data showed little overall change.