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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.

The post More than 6,000 sheep now call Australia’s largest solar farm home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post Nationals threaten to tear up wind and solar contracts as nuclear misinformation swings polls appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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

The post Amazon-backed solar farm powers up in Queensland’s Western Downs appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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.

The post “Solar for all:” Biden tips $US7 billion into rooftop PV for low-income households appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Sicona takes University of Wollongong technology global, with a factory in the US to produce ingredients it says will make EV batteries charge faster and last longer.

The post Australian battery materials upstart sets up shop in US, promises longer range electric cars appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The rapid growth in big batteries is changing the dynamics of Australia's main grid, and will help usher out fossil fuels.

The post Surge in battery storage capacity changing dynamics of the grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US.

The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia.

A Senate bill eyeing more stringent oversight over the purchase and sale of carbon offsets received no public testimony during its third Senate committee hearing on Monday, and now awaits a vote by committee members on whether it will advance to the Senate floor.

California diesel sales in January rose to their highest volumes for that month since 2008, while gasoline sales and emissions decreased year-on-year from 2023, according to state data released Monday.

Representatives of CO2 pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) testified before the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday as the company once again attempts to secure a permit for pipeline construction in the state.