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The Labor government wants to keep climate a quiet issue. But their latest projections show how dire the situation is.

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REDD+ avoided deforestation offsets ticked higher over the past week as the market looked to shrug off the recent negative press about widespread over-crediting in the voluntary carbon market, although the end of the week saw another project thrust negatively into the media spotlight.

Storms, flooding and other climate-related events highlight the urgent need for a national managed retreat framework. Past experiences suggests it will involve many challenges. Raven Cretney, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Waikato Christina Hanna, Lecturer, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Critically endangered grasslands and productive farmland in NSW would be cleared to lay the Hunter Gas Pipeline. Tim Curran, Associate Professor of Ecology, Lincoln University, New Zealand Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The shares of EKI Energy Services crashed on India’s BSE stock exchange Monday after the project developer reported a sharp drop in profits and its auditors flagged issues with how it recognised customer revenues.

The premium for UK Allowance prices over EUAs has evaporated after rising to over €32 in mid-2022, as UK emitters are thought to have largely finished replacing forward hedges in European permits with the British equivalent and the impact of a deeper recession begins to be felt.

German carrier Lufthansa will begin offering more expensive flights to customers with their emissions fully offset via a combination of a majority of carbon credits plus some sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), it announced Monday.

A senior politician in the forest-rich Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has submitted a proposal to introduce a domestic carbon tax, establish an authority to govern market involvement, and push forward on the implementation of the country's nationally determined contributions (NDC), as the African nation seeks maximise revenues from its natural resources.

Jury found Helen Redfern, Simon Reding and Catherine Rennie-Nash guilty of public nuisance over 2021 Bishopsgate protest

Three Insulate Britain activists have been found guilty of causing a public nuisance by a jury for a two-hour sit-down blockade of traffic.

The three, Helen Redfern, Simon Reding and Catherine Rennie-Nash, were banned from talking about the climate crisis or the role of insulation in cutting greenhouse gas emissions as they presented their case to the jury at Inner London crown court. The same restriction has been placed on other Insulate Britain defendants in previous trials for public nuisance relating to peaceful protests taken as part of the group’s campaign for better insulation in UK homes.

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Scientists hope emerging research into new types of animal feeds will make aquaculture more sustainable

Most of the environmental effects of farmed chicken and salmon arise from the food the animals are reared on, new research suggests.

Animal feed given to farmed chickens and salmon account respectively for at least 78% and 69% of the industries’ environmental pressures, according to a study published in the journal Current Biology.

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The European Commission on Monday adopted rules seeking to define what constitutes renewable hydrogen as part of a fast-track lawmaking process.

Some of the world’s richest companies are hiding behind spurious ‘net zero’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ claims. A new report calls them out for greenwashing.

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Environmentalist alliance says plastic waste from failed supermarket-backed recycling scheme can be safely warehoused until it can be recycled

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Environment groups are urging federal and state governments to ensure thousands of tonnes of soft plastic that could end up in landfill are safely warehoused by supermarket chains until recycling facilities become available, even if that takes years.

The Boomerang Alliance – a coalition of 55 conservation groups – has accused the packaging industry of using a failed scheme run by REDcycle which led to more than 12,000 tonnes of plastic collected by the public being stockpiled since 2018 as a marketing ploy to mask how little is being done to improve recycling rates.

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Animals possibly being knocked off course by storm events on the east coast of the US and in the Caribbean

Small, wrinkled and stranded in chilly waters, young hard-shelled turtles have been turning up on the beaches of the UK and Ireland in higher numbers than usual this winter.

According to reports made to the Marine Conservation Society and Marine Environmental Monitoring, 13 juvenile turtles have been stranded since November – 12 loggerheads and one Kemp’s ridley turtle.

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EUA prices dropped away on Monday morning in light trade as traders awaited this week's European Parliament vote on the REPowerEU initiative, and amid a wider energy market sell-off as recovering gas supply and forecasts for milder weather were expected to depress fuel and power prices.

A European-based project developer has launched a climate data analytics unit to help organisations decarbonise, also appointing a head of the new branch.

GHG emissions from future onshore shale gas production in Australia’s Northern Territory (NT) could largely be offset with the use of carbon credits within Australia and use of domestic mitigation technologies, in most cases, although a high production scenario would require the use of international offsets as well, according to a government scientific agency.

The Project Manager will lead a pilot project to develop a local carbon program that funds and delivers revegetation projects that are focused on environmental, social and economic co-benefits in our region.

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has reported that Verra has suspended a REDD+ project in Papua New Guinea and will conduct a review of it, in light of previous criminal charges laid against the developer’s chief executive.

Urgent action needed as DNA tests show their genetic diversity is so low they could vanish from the country in 30 years

Conservationists warn that a big cat population in Europe is destined to collapse unless immediate efforts are made to protect the animals.

Researchers estimate there are 120 to 150 adult lynxes in France. Tests on the animals show that the cats’ genetic diversity is so low they will become locally extinct within the next 30 years unless there is urgent intervention.

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