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Lawmakers in Colorado failed to implement a cap-and-trade programme as this year’s legislative session approaches its end on Wednesday, although the state joined its Western US neighbours in advancing several carbon capture and storage (CCS) bills.

World’s first wooden wind turbine blades promise to be less emissions intensive and cheaper to make, as well as easier to recycle.

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Building ecological grief literacy in workplaces can help environmental professionals manage constant exposure to the many causes of their grieving. Anna Cooke, Honorary Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Claudia Benham, ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Julie Dean, Health Services Researcher, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland Nathalie Butt, Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Solar and wind growth has propelled the world past 30% renewable electricity for the first time in 2023, marking a turning point in the shift away from fossil fuel power, according to a review of country-level data published on Wednesday.

Report says humans may be on brink of cutting fossil fuel generation, even as demand for electricity rises

Renewable energy accounted for more than 30% of the world’s electricity for the first time last year following a rapid rise in wind and solar power, according to new figures.

A report on the global power system has found that the world may be on the brink of driving down fossil fuel generation, even as overall demand for electricity continues to rise.

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Albanese announce landmark $566 million 10-year funding for mapping project to identify areas of critical mineral and rare earth deposits for clean energy transition.

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The UK car industry is on course to miss its legal net zero target after sales of electric vehicles to private buyers tumbled, warns the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the UK car manufacturing association.

Uniper's fossil-based power generation covered by the EU carbon market fell 12% in Q1, year-on-year, the utility reported Tuesday in quarterly results.

Underestimating soil health when tracking the progress of nature restoration projects could lead to unreliable or incomplete assessments, a biodiversity expert with infrastructure consultants AECOM has said.

BZE report says Australia could reap $215 billion if it moved into supply chains and manufacturing for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps and commercial EVs.

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Puro.earth is set to revise its methodology for crediting voluntary carbon removals from biochar projects and is inviting feedback on the current text before opening a three-week long public consultation in July.

A clean cooking summit due to be held in Paris next week, organised by the International Energy Agency, will place a significant focus on voluntary carbon markets as governments and private sector stakeholders seek to address current gaps in climate finance flows to Africa.

European carbon prices dropped steeply on Tuesday morning amid robust selling as traders took profit after EUAs failed to breach the psychologically important €75.00 level for a third time, while energy markets also drifted as forecasts called for higher temperatures later this week.

An Ecosystem Condition (EC) Protocol for standardising the measurement of ecosystem conditions across corporate reporting and biodiversity markets, with a similar format to the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, aims to launch a draft version this year.

Collective grid capacity across 25 EU member states needs to more than double by 2035 in order to meet the Paris Agreement goal to keep global warming below 1.5C, according to research published on Tuesday.

Charity asks people to charm worms to the surface and count their numbers to contribute to worm map of UK

Dancing for worms may seem an odd pursuit, but an environment charity is calling for people across the UK to charm the creatures from the depths in order to count them.

The Soil Association is trying to get a nationwide picture of worm abundance, to track their decline and see where they need the most help.

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Nature restoration practices across Latin America lack effective tools to quantify their outcomes due to prohibitive monitoring costs, which hamper the long-term success of the projects, a study has revealed.

G20 countries are advancing their efforts to scale 'bioeconomy' as a means to promote sustainable models that foster biodiversity conservation, though actions must be taken to enhance convergence and comparability between different national approaches, a study has said.

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

The race to save the planet is being impeded by a global economy that is contingent on the exploitation of people and nature, according to the UN’s outgoing leading environment and human rights expert.

David Boyd, who served as UN special rapporteur on human rights and the environment from 2018 to April 2024, told the Guardian that states failing to take meaningful climate action and regulating polluting industries could soon face a slew of lawsuits.

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Kazakhstan has become the latest country to join the Global Carbon Pricing Challenge (GCPC) – an initiative aiming to cover 60% of the world’s emissions with carbon pricing by 2030 – the Central Asian nation announced Tuesday.