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Forest Carbon Works (www.forestcarbonworks.org), a company which enables small forest landowners in the U.S. to access carbon offset markets, is seeking an Associate Forester to join our nationwide team. This position is based from your home office, but with regional responsibility in New England and New York. The ideal candidate will be located in Vermont.

Genex says its proposed wind farm of up to 200MW, and the new Bouldercombe battery leave it well placed in increasingly volatile markets.

The post Takeover target Genex touts new wind and storage as good bet in broken market appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Victoria to start banning embedded networks from the start of 2023, with the exception of buildings run on 100% renewables.

The post Victoria bans private, embedded power networks – unless they’re 100 pct renewable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fire chiefs in rural areas say lessons they learned in hot dry summers must be urgently applied in cities.

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Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court has ruled in favour of reinstating the preliminary injunction on the state’s RGGI programme linkage, according to court documents filed Monday.

South Australia receives 60 different proposals for its Whyalla hydrogen hub which now appears to have taken a deeper shade of green.

The post South Australia receives 60 proposals for Whyalla green hydrogen plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A British specialty chemicals company has teamed up with a US-based offset project developer to accelerate the deployment of carbon capture solutions for heavy industry and to originate carbon credits in the process.

The landscape of carbon credit rating agencies continues to build pace, with new services springing up to help buyers navigate the complex world of voluntary carbon credits, including by determining which projects offer climate-champion attributes versus those that add reputational risk to corporate claims.

Stanford researchers develop pyramid-shaped lens device that can significantly boost output without using trackers to follow the sun.

The post Look, no trackers! Stanford engineers say pyramid shaped lens can capture more solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Property buybacks and managed retreat from high-risk areas were once seen as far-off options as the planet warms. Now this ‘last resort’ adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority worldwide. Tayanah O'Donnell, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

EU member states are set to endorse bloc-wide gas demand-cutting plans on Tuesday, but fierce resistance from a majority suggests the final text may be riddled with exemptions and derogations.

California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) urged state regulator Air Resources Board (ARB) to incorporate new efforts in the 2022 Scoping Plan towards achieving the state’s 2030 emissions reduction targets and carbon neutrality by 2045, in a letter published late Friday.

A carbon marketplace and a crypto carbon initiative have teamed up in an effort to boost the sale of 'forward' offset credits for mangrove restoration projects.

Conversationists say judgment is one of the most significant in environmental law since the environmental protection act was introduced in 1999

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Conservationists have declared a win in a fight over Tasmania’s takyana/Tarkine rainforest after a judge found the Morrison government had erred in approving preliminary work on a mining waste dam.

Federal court justice Mark Moshinsky found the then environment minister, Sussan Ley, had failed to apply the precautionary principle before allowing drilling and surveying works for a new tailings dam near the town of Rosebery, on the state’s west coast.

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Change to ensure future emissions reduction targets could only be increased follows talks with crossbench and Greens

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The Albanese government has strengthened its signature climate legislation to make it clear future emissions reduction targets can only increase, as well as bolstering transparency about its response to expert advice from the Climate Change Authority.

The adjustments ahead of the introduction of the bill on Wednesday follow negotiations with the crossbench and the Greens and come as the latest Guardian Essential poll shows 50% of respondents want a bill reflecting Labor’s specific election commitments passed by the new parliament to address the climate crisis.

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Germany-based utility RWE, historically EU’s top corporate emitter, reported an 14% rise in its EU ETS-covered lignite power output for H1, it said on Monday in preliminary generation results, production that more-than-outweighed a strong fall in its gas generation amid soaring prices.

Prices for voluntary carbon market (VCM) offsets fell sharply in the second half of last week amid increasing fears of an economic downturn as inflation spiraled higher, Chinese and Indian growth forecasts were cut, and Europe faced the bleak prospect of gas rationing.

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