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Indonesia poised to lift issuance moratorium next month, source says

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2025-03-14 17:43
Indonesia is looking to lift its moratorium on international credit issuances next month, according to a source familiar with the matter, a move that could breathe life back to the bruised voluntary carbon market (VCM).
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The global battle against the climate crisis needs China. I’m visiting Beijing, and that’s what I’ll tell them | Ed Miliband

The Guardian - Fri, 2025-03-14 17:00

I will be the first UK energy secretary since 2017 to visit. It is negligence towards today’s and future generations not to engage China on this critical topic

The climate crisis is an existential threat to our way of life in Britain. Extreme weather is already changing the lives of people and communities across the country, from thousands of acres of farmland being submerged due to storms such as Bert and Darragh to record numbers of heat-related deaths in recent summers.

The only way to respond to this challenge is with decisive action at home and abroad. Domestically, this government’s clean-energy superpower mission is about investing in homegrown clean energy so we can free the UK from dependence on fossil fuel markets while seizing the immense opportunities for jobs and growth.

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Richest farmers in England may lose sustainability funding in Defra review

The Guardian - Fri, 2025-03-14 17:00

Exclusive: Officials explore restricting incentive to allocate greater funds to farms with less money and more nature

The richest farmers will not be able to apply for post-Brexit nature funding under plans for England being considered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

Farming groups and climate experts have warned that such a plan would “leave farmers in the cold” and make it more difficult for the UK to reach net zero by 2050.

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Attacking a young tourist over her treatment of a wombat is hypocritical – and misses the point | Georgie Purcell

The Guardian - Fri, 2025-03-14 16:33

What’s happening to our native wildlife across the country is just as horrific as what we witnessed in that video – it’s just occurring behind closed doors

We’ve all seen the distressing footage of an American influencer taking a wombat joey away from its mother. The joey hisses and stirs, while the distraught mother circles the woman until she eventually drops it back to the side of the road.

The tourist calls herself both a conservationist and an ecologist. But most of us can recognise that this is not the behaviour of someone who values our native wildlife.

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Australia offers A$750 mln for clean minerals development

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2025-03-14 16:15
Australia on Friday continued its clean energy spending, announcing it will invest A$750 million ($471 mln) in critical minerals and their development and processing through the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA).
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‘All the birds returned’: How China led the way in water and soil conservation

The Guardian - Fri, 2025-03-14 16:00

The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action and reversed decades of damage from grazing and farming

It was one of China’s most ambitious environmental endeavours ever.

The Loess plateau, an area spanning more than 245,000 sq miles (640,000 sq km) across three provinces and parts of four others, supports about 100 million people. By the end of the 20th century, however, this land, once fertile and productive, was considered the most eroded place on Earth, according to a documentary by the ecologist John D Liu.

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National Trust creates living gene bank of endangered native black poplar

The Guardian - Fri, 2025-03-14 15:00

Cuttings of tree captured by John Constable being planted on restored Devon floodplain

Captured by John Constable in one of his most celebrated paintings, the black poplar tree was once as common as oak and beech in Britain.

Now the rarest and most threatened native species in the country, the National Trust is creating a living gene bank of the black poplar to ensure Constable’s The Hay Wain does not become a tribute to an extinct breed.

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WCI Markets: ARB’s latest ISOR tangle crushes CCAs again, WCA ride high post Q1 sale

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2025-03-14 13:16
California regulator ARB shifting goalposts in releasing the Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR) signalling formal ETS rulemaking once again pummelled California Carbon Allowances (CCA) prices, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) gained momentum after a strong first quarterly permit sale earlier this week.
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Canadian university receives C$24 mln for ocean-based CDR research

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2025-03-14 12:27
A Canadian university has received C$24 million ($16.6 mln) over six years to advance its ocean-based carbon removal (CDR) research.
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Not just bees and butterflies: beetles and other brilliant bugs are nature’s unsung pollinators

The Conversation - Fri, 2025-03-14 11:47
Next time you’re outside, say a silent thanks for the many unsung insect pollinators helping to keep our ecosystems healthy. Tanya Latty, Associate Professor, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Majority of New Zealanders support mix of domestic, intl cooperation to met NDCs, govt polling suggests

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2025-03-14 11:47
Research conducted by the New Zealand government showed the large majority of respondents are supportive of a combination of both domestic action and offshore mitigation to meet the country’s Paris climate goals.
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The unexpected knock-on effect of Trump's minerals 'deal of the century'

BBC - Fri, 2025-03-14 11:26
The president once derided attempts to develop new green technology as a "green new scam" - but his deal could help boost the US's potential in the sector
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