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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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Turkiye is more likely to rely on free allocation of carbon allowances to protect its industrial sectors under its planned emissions trading system (ETS) — despite its initial proposal for a domestic Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), experts told the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference in Izmir. 

Indonesia on Thursday launched a provincial forest and peatland conservation programme to bolster sustainable forest management and curb carbon emissions.

A lack of capacity and the small-scale of potential emissions reductions are holding Pacific Island nations back from fully participating in Article 6 mechanisms, according to market participants.

The Australian carbon ecosystem is set to strengthen and grow off the back of renewed policy certainty, despite deep wells of frustration from project developers over the slow method development process.

The development of clean ammonia is “the best thing we can do” to cut Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, the chairman of an Australian gas giant told his company's annual general meeting Thursday.

Energy giant ExxonMobil has signed a long-term offtake agreement with a Japanese trading house for roughly 250,000 tonnes of low-carbon ammonia per year, the companies announced Thursday.

Atmospheric CO₂ concentrations are surging, even as emissions level out. Natural carbon sinks are showing signs of faltering as we continue to emit CO₂. Issy Borley, Research Technician, CSIRO Cathy Trudinger, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Ray Langenfelds, Scientist, Atmospheric Research, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

The SA government’s decision to disband its hydrogen body means the state's iron and steelmaking will likely run on gas for longer. This is bad news.

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Indigenous engagement in carbon projects needs to go further, be more than a box-ticking exercise, and be implemented from the get-go in order to design the most effective projects without damaging biodiversity, a conference heard this week.

Amber Electric's Myles Eftos on how home batteries can be money making machines. Plus, a post-election debrief and Australia's new favourite battery.

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