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The UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous People has called for a moratorium on voluntary carbon markets to stop human rights violations.

Some 160 financial institutions, with $15.5 trillion in collective assets under management, have called for an ambitious international treaty to end plastic pollution, in a statement led by the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

Denmark announces plans for the largest offshore wind tender in the country’s history, seeking anywhere from 6GW to 10GW across six new sites.

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Asia is warming faster than the global average, with warming trends in the region nearly doubling since the 1961–1990 period and the impact of heatwaves becoming more severe, said the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s report on Tuesday.

Nasa says its most distant probe is once again sending usable information back to Earth.

A credit management platform developed by banks has partnered with a UK project developer to deliver carbon credits that support home retrofit at scale, in a drive to decarbonise the UK's carbon-intensive housing stock.

China is on track to reach its carbon peaking and neutrality targets, though the country may only see its coal consumption fall by one-third by 2040, a report has found.

Some 7,000 years ago, West Antarctica’s ice sheet retreated, most likely driven by warmer ocean currents slipping under the ice. This could happen again – unless we cut emissions fast. Dan Lowry, Ice Sheet & Climate Modeller, GNS Science Holly Kyeore Han, NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, NASA Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Singapore-based environmental venture and a global natural capital firm have partnered to launch a new fund tied to Article 6 deals with governments, the two announced Tuesday.

Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK is hopeful impasse can be overcome at treaty negotiations in Ottawa

As UN talks begin to agree the first global treaty to reduce soaring plastic waste, the chair of the meetings has said he is confident countries will come together to secure an agreement.

Luis Vayas Valdivieso, the Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK, admitted it would be a challenge to overcome an impasse that has emerged between countries which produce plastic and others that have ambitions to tackle plastic pollution over its whole life. But Valdivieso, who will chair the UN intergovernmental negotiations on a future international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution in Ottawa, Canada, this week, said: “We have to face those challenges and work with them. Compromise is an important word that we need to take into account.

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Claire O’Neill, a former climate minister, says PM’s move was to ‘try and create political division and dividing lines’

The UK government’s decision to weaken some of its climate commitments was a “retrograde step” that will set back vital cross-party action to cut carbon emissions, Claire O’Neill, a former Conservative climate minister, has said.

O’Neill, who was known as Claire Perry when she served as a minister under David Cameron and Theresa May, said the rolling back of emission reduction efforts by Rishi Sunak appeared to be a ploy for political advantage.

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Industrial policy combined with climate goals can help to advance climate action, but it can also lead to protectionism and barriers that hinder clean technology progress, wrote climate and energy academics in a paper on Tuesday.

The owners of Australia's largest solar project say the site now plays host to a record 6,000 plus sheep.

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The Australian government learned important lessons from its environmental offset audit process, officials told a webinar last week, but is refusing to publicly release the full report on its findings.

India will allow foreign buyers to purchase carbon credits generated in the country, the administrator of the national market told a webinar this week, seeking to clarify the government's policy after market participants had expressed confusion about the eligibility of selling units abroad.

Multiple Australian companies have joined Qantas’ Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition, opting to contribute to the cost of SAF rather than relying on carbon offsets, the airline said Tuesday.

International Energy Agency says 17m vehicles will be sold this year, up more than 20% compared with 2023

Electric and plug-in hybrid car sales will jump to a new global record in 2024 despite slowing growth in some markets, according to forecasts from the influential International Energy Agency (IEA).

The Paris-based forecaster said that 17m battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles will be sold in 2024, up more than 20% compared with 2023.

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Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts with government, as the push against renewables and for nuclear gains traction in polls.

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The 125MW solar farm underpinned by a power purchase agreement with online retail giant Amazon has completed commissioning.

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More than 4GW of rooftop solar will be rolled out across nearly 1 million low-income and disadvantaged households as part of a $US7 billion Biden administration program.

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