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South Australia scraps its Hydrogen Power office after cancelling its proposed green hydrogen power plant and redirecting funds for the rescue of the Whyalla steelworks.

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The Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) on Thursday released the first round of its draft report on no-cost allocations for Emissions Intensive, Trade Exposed Industries (EITEs), detailing initial considerations regarding best practices for avoiding leakage and methods to develop GHG benchmarks.

A legal expert noted several avenues of action that the US Attorney General could take against California’s carbon market, but described them as “quite weak”, in a meeting with the state’s carbon market watchdog Thursday.

Nash Core was travelling through the coastal town of Ardrossan in South Australia with his wife and sons when he came across three men trying to rescue a great white shark stranded in shallow water. Core used his drone to shoot video of the writhing shark before he and son Parker, 11, decided to help the trio who were struggling to move the shark into deeper water

• ‘My heart’s pounding’: Australians wade into ocean to save great white shark stranded in shallow water

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Analysis has shown key sectors of Australia’s economy are getting behind the government’s climate policies, specifically its Future Made in Australia (FMIA) initiative.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) hovered within a narrow range over the week faced with unresolved risks to the state’s ETS from the threat of potential federal action, and awaiting legislative reauthorisation ahead of the upcoming second quarterly permit sale, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) extended higher in thin trade.

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) filed lawsuits against Vermont, New York, Michigan, and Hawaii in federal courts this week, targeting state efforts to seek damages from fossil fuel companies from alleged climate harms.

Integrating carbon markets within the Pacific Alliance bloc of countries could support market growth by lowering barriers to entry and attracting finance, though a single market might be too idealistic, according to speakers at the Colombia Carbon Forum in Bogota last week.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s win will have “tremendous” impacts on the future of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) in Canada, experts said Wednesday.

It has been moved to Germany's Black Forest in preparation for its release

Truck manufacturers and industry groups asked Oregon regulators on Wednesday to delay implementation of the proposed Advanced Clean Trucks rule until 2027, following similar decisions in two other states in the last month.

Trump and Musk have likely done Labor a favour, and caused the Dutton vote to implode. A minority government with Teals and Greens would be preferable.

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Coalition's final campaign act perfectly summarises their true anti-climate, pro fossil fuel colours. Here's hoping voters have paid attention.

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A Brazilian bank, a Sao Paulo-based developer, and a national agricultural cooperative on Wednesday announced an agreement targeting a 50,000-hectare afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) project in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest regions.

US House Republicans are looking to reign in the influence proxy advisory firms have over corporate governance by creating new restrictions and reporting standards over proxy voting, which the lawmakers say is being used to inject politicised agendas into the shareholding voting process.

Colorado regulators running the state’s forthcoming carbon trading system released an update on Thursday regarding the first annual auction of GHG credits for the programme in June.

A US-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) developer has won environmental approval to transport and sequester up to 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year.

New guidelines for the issuance of green, blue, biodiversity, and other thematic bonds have been published by the Guayaquil Stock Exchange (Spanish: BVG), with technical assistance from the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN) of the UN Development Programme (UNDP).

Over $1 trillion in corporate value linked to the world’s largest stock markets is at risk by 2050 due to rising socio-economic impacts of climate change in vulnerable countries, according to a new analysis.

Forest logging records, satellite data, on-ground surveys and drone photography show nearly 20% of logged areas in Victoria failed to regenerate over the past 40 years. Maldwyn John Evans, Senior Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Chris Taylor, Research Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.