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Developing countries need up to $1.5 trillion per year of solely grant-based climate finance as they struggle to attract investment and cope with growing debt, according to a new study that claims previous estimates are far too low.

A group of sovereign debt specialists on Sunday released principles for improving access to nature- and climate-related financial products.

Residents claim contamination from Angus Fire factory has left them trapped and unable to sell their homes

Residents in the UK town with the country’s highest identified concentration of “forever chemicals” have instructed lawyers to investigate the possibility of a first-of-its-kind legal claim against the firefighting foam manufacturer located in the centre of Bentham.

In May this year, an investigation by the Ends Report and the Guardian revealed that the rural North Yorkshire town is the most PFAS-polluted place known to exist in the UK. The town is home to the firefighting foam manufacturer Angus Fire.

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EUAs were firmer at midday on Monday after a stronger than usual auction outcome appeared to trigger a wave of buying that moved the market €2.00 higher.

The United Arab Emirates’ new 2035 Paris Agreement pledge sets an emissions reduction target aligned with a 1.5C temperature limit, but its overall commitments are not compatible because of a weak 2030 goal, according to analysis published Monday.

Companies are lagging behind in aligning biodiversity-related disclosures with the EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and are failing to disclose metrics, an assessment has found.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is purchasing clean cooking carbon credits, a representative confirmed Monday at the COP29 climate summit, while a senior member at Verra said the voluntary standard remained in a wait-and-see stance for a new UN-backed methodology for the sector.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has teamed up with the Odisea expedition to explore and protect biodiversity in the Western Indian Ocean, the organisation announced on Monday during the ongoing UN climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Scientists say goal to keep world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is not going to happen despite talks at Cop29 in Baku

The internationally agreed goal to keep the world’s temperature rise below 1.5C is now “deader than a doornail”, with 2024 almost certain to be the first individual year above this threshold, climate scientists have gloomily concluded – even as world leaders gather for climate talks on how to remain within this boundary.

Three of the five leading research groups monitoring global temperatures consider 2024 on track to be at least 1.5C (2.7F) hotter than pre-industrial times, underlining it as the warmest year on record, beating a mark set just last year. The past 10 consecutive years have already been the hottest 10 years ever recorded.

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One of Japan's largest trading houses has teamed up with a domestic energy company to develop the use of AI tools in evaluating carbon credit quality, they announced Monday.

The first signs of big business taking landscape-level approaches to ecosystems are stirring, with billion-dollar companies enquiring daily this summer, offering more promise for nature markets than biodiversity credits, according to a consultancy executive.

New research shows melting ice is causing the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) to slow down, with widespread consequences for the world’s climate and ecosystems. Laurie Menviel, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Gabriel Pontes, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Several Latin American countries have made carbon pricing announcements at and around the COP29 UN climate conference in Baku, but subnational Brazilian deals involving nature-based solutions (NBS) – and the Senate’s long-awaited ETS passage – continue to dominate headlines.

Growth in China’s thermal power generation slowed in October with a sustained high level of coal output, with analysts remaining optimistic about the country's emissions reduction trajectory given the current pace of renewables expansion.

Spot market Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) prices surged on Monday, as the Clean Energy Regulator issued some 800,000 units.

António Guterres says succesful outcome at Cop29 is still ‘within reach’ but only with ‘leadership’ from world’s most powerful countries

• Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal

Looks as if Trump WILL keep his promise to Drill baby, drill. On Saturday he appointed Chris Wright, an oil and gas industry executive and a staunch defender of fossil fuel use, to lead the US Department of Energy.

Wright is the founder and CEO of Liberty Energy, an oilfield services firm based in Denver, Colorado. He is expected to support Trump’s plan to maximize production of oil and gas and to seek ways to boost generation of electricity, demand for which is rising for the first time in decades.

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The decision Friday from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) to approve three REDD+ methodologies has been welcomed by multiple market participants, but with a note of caution that the move is not without risk, especially as the crediting programmes have not yet been tried and tested.

Small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) could unlock a $789 billion green finance opportunity if barriers in reporting, data accessibility, and implementation costs are addressed, according to a new report revealed at COP29 on Monday.

Loved by tourists, elephants are, however, often loathed by farmers. Elephant conservation has been a been a success in Tsavo in Kenya, with their number increasing by about 6,000 in the mid-1990s to almost 15,000 in 2021. The human population has also grown, encroaching on grazing and migration routes for the herds, with resulting clashes becoming the No 1 cause of elephant deaths. But a long-running project by the charity Save the Elephants offered an unlikely solution: deterring some of nature’s biggest animals with some of its smallest: African honeybees

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It is Day 8 at COP29 in Baku - Youth Day. At the midway stage, negotiations are going well on Article 6, but poorly elsewhere. Parties clashed on the Mitigation Work Programme (MWP) over the weekend, which appears set to be punted to next year's summit, and talks on finance are said to be dire. Can things turn around this week, and will countries finally get carbon markets talks over the line? In our daily running blog, Carbon Pulse will report relevant or useful updates throughout the day. Timestamps are in local time (GMT+4).