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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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Greens leader Adam Bandt has conceded defeat in his seat of Melbourne, meaning the loss of one of the most outspoken climate warriors in parliament.

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Multiple carbon market participants have responded to a call for input on the standards that underpin the new Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), welcoming the progress made already this year, but citing concerns with some of the draft documents published ahead of a crunch meeting of UNFCCC officials next week.

Plans to develop one of world's largest offshore wind farms shelved - just months after winning government support - because it no longer makes economic sense.

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South Korea's 2050 target for blue carbon sequestration should be achievable, considering the country's track record in seaweed restoration, according to a paper published this week.

One transmission company says it has received 8 GW of data centres load requests, but not in places that could be cure for wind and solar constraints.

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Mount Augustus snail, among largest in world, can live for decades and eats slugs and earthworms

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A large rare carnivorous New Zealand snail has been filmed laying an egg from its neck for the first time, in a delightfully icky stroke of luck.

The department of conservation, which has been managing a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta, or the Mount Augustus snail, for almost two decades, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, white egg started emerging from a snail’s neck.

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A new AEMC rule explicitly factors potential climate change risks into network resilience, allowing DNSPs to spend on preventing major blackouts.

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The New Zealand Department of Conservation, which has managed a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta since 2006, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, white egg started emerging from a snail’s slimy neck. The land snails, otherwise known as the Mount Augustus snail, are found only in New Zealand and are among some of the largest in the world. They are slow-growing and can live for decades.

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