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Existing multivariate models typically overlook unstructured news sentiment, failing to capture irrational fluctuations driven by market public opinion. To address this, this paper proposes VBN-Net, a hybrid model integrating carbon-specific news sentiment with Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD). Two core innovations are presented: First, a multi-modal input mechanism combines structured financial data with unstructured carbon news sentiment to effectively capture policy-driven shocks. Second, a Sequential Beluga Whale Optimization strategy is designed to adaptively optimize feature engineering in steps. Unlike conventional approaches, the VBN-Net first employs VMD for denoising and frequency decomposition, and then optimizes the fusion weights of news sentiment across different frequency components derived from multi-source news. This strategy effectively overcomes the subjectivity of manual parameter selection, providing high-quality features for a fixed CNN-BiLSTM backbone. By integrating VMD-based denoising with optimized multi-source news fusion, the model achieves consistent performance improvements across multiple evaluation metrics. 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