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Standard Chartered’s Vietnam branch has offered to provide sustainable products and services for the Southeast Asian nation’s future emissions market, according to local media reports, as regulators get on with the task of building a carbon exchange.

South Korea should gradually ease carryover restrictions to better reflect the current national emissions reductions target and boost liquidity in the domestic emissions trading scheme (ETS), a government-run think-tank has called for.

A major step-change in demand for carbon credits is coming in the next 18 months from large emitters, due to increasing compliance and societal demand, a bank’s head of environmental markets told a conference Thursday.

Investment in new wind and solar is stagnating. An extension to the renewable energy target is being proposed. Here's how it might work.

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After hottest day ever, researchers say global heating may mean future of crop failures on land and ‘silent dying’ in the oceans

Successive heatwaves threaten nature’s ability to provide us with food, say researchers, as they warn of an “unseen, silent dying” in our oceans amid record temperatures scorching the Earth.

Heatwaves are ripping through Europe, the US and China, with the global hottest day ever recorded at the start of July, endangering human life as well as the land and sea it depends on.

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Western Power launches massive, modern energy depot south of Perth to house 850 staff and 500 vehicles.

The post Rooftop solar, battery, dozens of EV chargers: Network launches depot “of future” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The gas industry has fought hard for hydrogen as an option to replace gas as a fuel in homes. But how clean is it — and does it make sense as a solution?

The post Heating with hydrogen: Clean alternative or gas industry pipe dream? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Macquarie-owned energy storage developer has a global big battery development pipeline that has ballooned to 1.2GWh in under a year.

The post Macquarie’s Eku gets to work on two more big batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Australia can expect to see a voluntary biodiversity market emerge in the not-too-distant future whether the government is successful at passing its nature repair market legislation or not, experts told a conference this week.

Works to connect South Australia's largest wind farm to the state's grid – and take it a major step closer to “net” 100 per cent renewables – have been completed.

The post Works complete to connect South Australia’s biggest wind farm to grid appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Scientists have released a record number of endangered White’s seahorses into the wild to boost population numbers.

Embraer says it will build electric aircraft with hopes they will take flight from 2026.

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Research shows that house plants don't make much difference to air quality.

Astonishing aerial footage reveals sharks are closer to us than we think – and usually leave us alone.

An Ohio-based climate-tech firm that reduces building energy leaks has secured $67 million in a Series B fundraise.

Expectations ahead of next week’s WCI cap-and-trade public rulemaking workshop have continued to fuel California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices higher, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs) picked up at the end of another week of light transaction activity.

Gavin Schmidt of Goddard Institute for Space Studies warns of likelihood of new high as heatwave bakes large parts of planet

July will likely be Earth’s hottest month in hundreds if not thousands of years, Gavin Schmidt, the director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told reporters on Thursday, as a persistent heatwave baked swaths of the US south.

Schmidt made the announcement during a meeting at Nasa’s Washington headquarters that convened agency climate experts and other leaders, including Nasa administrator Bill Nelson and chief scientist and senior climate adviser Kate Calvin.

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A Canadian carbon credit streaming company announced an 8.3 million hectare avoided deforestation project in Bolivia as part of a partnership with a private equity firm on Thursday, using a methodology the company claims will better meet the Core Carbon Principles than REDD+.

European cities could harness nature-based solutions (NBS) to cut urban carbon emissions by up to 25%, a new study has found.