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A British biochar manufacturer is working with research institutions and a poultry business to improve poultry welfare, productivity, and cut emissions through the application of 'chickenchar' to bedding and manure, which will generate carbon removal credits.

Only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has been visually observed over the past 70 years, with scientists defining the lack of knowledge "a critical problem" as interest in ocean mining grows.

US-based tech giant Google on Thursday announced carbon credit deals for the equivalent of 1 million tonnes of CO2e over the next century from a commercial cooling project in Indonesia and a landfill activity in Brazil.

The European Parliament voted to make gas markets more flexible on Thursday, the same day members voted to delay the start of more ambitious CO2 rules for new cars and vans.

India is emerging as a front-runner in the global race to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, as enhanced rock weathering (ERW) startups working with smallholder farmers and plantation estates bet on the South Asian country’s basalt-rich geology and vast agricultural terrain to scale durable carbon removals.

National pledges to the Paris Agreement are often disconnected from national policy and investment plans because they are developed by consultants rather than integrated into government processes, a former EU minister told the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference on Thursday.

Turkiye is drawing up a strategy for trading international carbon credits under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, keeping open the possibility of both hosting projects and buying units to meet its own goals, government officials told the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference on Thursday.

The UK and Norway are set to sign a bilateral agreement on the cross-border transport of CO2, as they seek to capitalise on the North Sea's potential to become a major hub for carbon capture and storage (CCS).

A UK government impact assessment has said its previously announced plans to overhaul environmental rules and introduce a system centralised around a Nature Restoration Fund (NRF) lack data to underpin them.

A Ghana-based e-mobility project taking place under the country’s bilateral Article 6.2 accord with Switzerland has achieved authorisation, Carbon Pulse heard on the sidelines of the East Africa Carbon Markets Forum in Kampala on Thursday.

Calls continue to grow to link the UK and EU emissions trading schemes, with an influential energy body writing to the British government on Thursday to call for progress on the matter at talks during an upcoming summit between the two jurisdictions.

A specialist investor focused on decarbonising hard-to-abate sectors has announced the launch of its Latin America strategy and also completed a merger with another investment manager.

The Federal Network Agency has widened the scope of its biennial "energy scenario" frameworks for the next 12-20 years to consider slower growth in power demand and the introduction of gas plants with CCU/CCS to the power mix in 2045, although hydrogen remains the star decarboniser alongside renewables.

The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has recommended that proposed EU changes to reporting requirements on areas including biodiversity following the so-called omnibus should align with its framework in order to simplify corporate reporting.

Solar-battery hybrid power station to help power critical minerals sands mine in NSW.

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A group of carbon market governance bodies and participants on Thursday called on national governments to recognise and support voluntary climate action by companies, saying it can work alongside official efforts under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 framework.

A UK energy from waste company has selected a removal registry to work with on its carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Wales.

A UK non-profit has launched a nature restoration strategy in Formentera, Spain, including plans to generate 1 million urban biodiversity credits over the next 20 years.

Indonesia's environment ministry on Thursday signed a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) with Gold Standard, a move that will help enable Indonesian carbon projects to access international markets.

The University of Queensland system is intended to give policymakers idea of how species traverse the oceans and what it will take to save them

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Off the east coast of Florida, female loggerhead turtles swim more than 1,000km north, hugging the edge of the continental shelf to get to feeding grounds.

Humpback whales move through Moreton Bay off the Brisbane coast in Australia, on their way to feed around the Balleny Islands more than 4,000km away off the Antarctic coastline, where wandering albatross circle above, travelling 1,000km a day.

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