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Rising sea levels threaten the low-lying island nation with the world’s third-largest shipping register. That’s why it’s leading efforts to cut shipping emissions in an equitable way. Christiaan De Beukelaer, Senior Lecturer in Culture & Climate, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

An environmental trust and a large insurance company have partnered in a landmark project to restore saltmarshes across the UK, aiming to leverage the natural climate-fighting capacities of these wetlands.

Halving global shipping’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 would not impact global trade, according to an NGO-commissioned report published on Monday as government negotiators arrive in London for talks on revising the sector's climate goals.

A lack of data and transparency on member state climate policies and actions could hinder progress in hitting the EU's 2030 emissions reduction target, the bloc's financial watchdog warned on Monday as a new EU climate observatory is set up that could help monitor progress.

Researchers have cautioned that soaring demand growth for bioenergy must fall under a carbon pricing system to ensure protection of forests and other land, else the fuel risks emissions factors even higher than some fossil fuels.

The Nature Action 100 institutional investor initiative on Monday identified eight sectors it will engage with on nature and biodiversity and released a list of actions it expects corporations in those industry to take.

Research finds tropical mammals suffer impact of deforestation even if they live in protected areas

Wildlife sanctuaries fail to fully protect tropical animals from harmful human activities, a major study has found.

Mammals including the jaguar, the mountain gorilla, and the Sunda pangolin were all found to be affected by human activities, even when they resided in the depths of a nature reserve.

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European carbon prices shrugged off an early jump and resumed their weaker trajectory on Monday morning as most markets absorbed the weekend news from Russia and pared early gains.

Japan over the weekend held the first meeting for senior officials under the Asia Zero Emission Community (AZEC), a regional initiative to decarbonise the region where it intends to use the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) to drive hydrogen, ammonia, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) developments.

The British government will prioritise the integration of removals into both its domestic Emissions Trading Scheme as well as international carbon markets when developing a business model for scaling such technologies, it said in a published consultation response on Monday.

South Korea's market regulator should step in to support demand and safeguard quality in the nation's emerging voluntary market as well as in the ETS, according to market participants.

The International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) published its inaugural set of G20-backed global rules designed to help regulators crack down on greenwashing and improve trust and confidence in corporate disclosures.

A platform building an open-access global climate transition-related data is to work with a national financial regulator to test the structure ahead of its launch at November’s COP28 UN climate talks.

The Australian government and the Clean Energy Regulator have refuted claims made by a new study that suggested that up to 25 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU) from historic human-induced regeneration projects were junk. 

Wind farm noise is as disruptive as road traffic noise, Flinders University researchers find.

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The spot price for NZUs fell by nearly 10% on Monday as the market continues its free fall following the release of a consultation on the redesign of the ETS.

Findings come as nations gather in London to discuss new carbon levy

Greenhouse gas emissions from shipping could be halved by 2030 without damaging trade, new research has found, as countries prepare to meet to discuss a potential new tax on carbon produced by ships.

Emissions from maritime transportation amount to about 3% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and there are few alternatives to the cheap, heavy and dirty diesel oil used by ships.

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A drone pilot captures footage of a humpback whale following a kayaker near Bondi beach. Up to 50,000 whales are expected to pass Australia’s east coast during the annual migration from Antarctica to the Great Barrier Reef. Humpback whales were removed from Australia's threatened species list last year after a significant increase in numbers, from just 1,500 at the height of the commercial whaling industry to an estimated 40,000

• Young humpbacks ‘full of beans’ as whale-watching season takes off in Sydney

• Humpbacks spotted having whale of a time at underwater ‘day spa’ off Gold Coast

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Energy storage hopeful edges closer to demonstrating "Perth-built" vanadium flow redox flow battery using "cutting edge" technology from South Korea.

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Siemens Energy says the bill to fix its troubled wind division could pass the €1 billion mark, as it scrambles to get on top of high turbine failure rates.

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