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GridBeyond raises $86 million to help advance VPP technology and help consumers match renewables with demand.

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With submissions about to close on the government’s proposed fast-track consenting legislation, its possible impact on New Zealand’s diminished and delicate ecosystems demands proper scrutiny. Margaret Stanley, Professor of Ecology, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

You can’t prevent people from having bad ideas. But sometimes, a piece of legislation can prevent bad ideas from taking up large amounts of money and time.

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Japan's largest coal and gas plant owner, which has been making moves into offshore wind – including in Australia – launches a renewables-only platform.

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A toxic gas is turbocharging heatwaves, bushfires and coral bleaching, and going largely unreported under "faulty" emission safeguards, satellite data suggests.

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Singapore and New Zealand have agreed to work together on carbon markets as one of several green economy measures, according to an agreement signed between the two countries Monday.

A London-based carbon-accounting startup is to merge with a Singapore-based climate tech company as part of a deal worth millions, boosting both companies' access to a growing $15 billion market.

A gas-fired power producer with facilities across several US states has revised its energy portfolio framework finalised less than a year ago, now forecasting fewer CO2 cuts due to delayed retirements of coal-fired units and increased use of gas-powered electricity.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices wound down from volatile activity in weeks prior but continued to trade at higher volumes last week, driven by compliance demand, market participants said.

A UK-based climate risk analysis startup has raised $3.5 mln in seed funding, it announced Monday.

An energy distributor has announced a project partnership with another Quebec-based carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) company, aiming to decarbonise their industrial operations.

The US space agency is seeking a cheaper, faster solution to bring Martian rocks to Earth for study.

New research shows climate change can drive sudden ocean cooling too. This can have devastating effects on marine life such as bull sharks and manta rays. Nicolas Benjamin Lubitz, Researcher in marine ecology, James Cook University David Schoeman, Professor of Global-Change Ecology, University of the Sunshine Coast Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Developing countries are stuck in a vicious cycle exporting climate-destructive raw materials like oil and gas, and importing processed goods from wealthier countries, according to panellists speaking on a climate finance webinar Monday, in what may be compromising international emissions reduction goals.

Prices were little changed last week on low volume, but the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)’s sudden change of policy to allow qualifying voluntary carbon credits to be used to offset some corporate emissions could inject a surge of investment and interest in the voluntary market.

Paris claims ban breaches UK-EU trade deal but environmentalists say dispute is ‘hypocrisy’, given Macron’s rhetoric on saving oceans

France has been accused of hypocrisy by conservationists over a fresh post-Brexit dispute with the UK over fishing rights.

France launched an official protest after the UK banned bottom trawling from parts of its territorial waters last month, with the aim of protecting vulnerable habitats.

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While the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) provides an effective protection against imports of cheaper CO2-intensive products into Europe, it omits a crucial export dimension, with potentially devastating consequences for sectors like steelmaking and fertilisers, according to a new report.

Intense swells of cold water from the depths are killing sharks, rays and other creatures, researchers say

A climate-disrupted ocean is pushing sharks, rays and other species to flee ever-hotter water in the tropics, only for them to be killed by increasingly intense upswells of cold water from the depths, a study has found.

One of the authors of the paper described the “eerie” aftermath of a mass die-off of more than 260 marine organisms from 81 species in a singular event of extreme cold upswelling off the coast of South Africa in 2021.

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Ocean heat records have been breaking for months. This is the first global evidence of the impacts on sea life.

Rooftop solar now delivers 11.2% of Australia's energy and is the fourth largest energy source in the country.

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