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Australia’s main grid ends summer with a new big solar output record
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FEATURE: USAID freeze sets back American scale-up of international carbon markets
A sudden USAID funding freeze has jeopardised years of US efforts to onboard countries onto carbon markets and credit trading, sources familiar with agency operations told Carbon Pulse.
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Shuttered car factories in Australia could be repurposed to make houses faster and cheaper
Australia’s car factories lie silent after the industry foundered. These factories could be used to help solve a huge problem: how to build more housing.
Ehsan Noroozinejad, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University
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Trump’s war on climate science is pushing us into a dystopian future
Withdrawing support for research and scrubbing climate data from US government websites has repercussions for Australia and the world. But there are ways around it.
Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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ANALYSIS: New EU climate proposals to have limited immediate impact on carbon, experts say
The European Union’s new climate policies are unlikely to have a significant near-term impact on the bloc's carbon market, but long-term uncertainties remain, analysts have told Carbon Pulse.
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Apple faces class action lawsuit over use of “ineffective and redundant” carbon offsets
Tech giant Apple has been threatened with class action lawsuit in the US over allegations that it misled consumers by marketing its smartwatch as carbon neutral through the use of “ineffective and redundant” offsets.
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UK’s offshore windfarms to be painted black to protect birds
Trial announced as Keir Starmer arrives in Washington to meet Donald Trump, a longtime critic of windfarms
Offshore windfarms are to be painted black in an effort to reduce the number of birds that die after flying into them.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a four-year trial to paint the wind turbines after officials raised concerns that the government’s plan to increase turbine numbers in the North Sea could spell danger for seabirds. Limited research has been conducted on the number of birds killed this way, but estimates range from four to 18 per turbine per year.
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Google has launched a new AI tool called Co-Scientist. How good is it?
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Almost three-quarters of UK-based companies aim to offset residual emissions -study
Some 73% of organisations are planning to offset their hard-to-abate emissions using carbon credits, according to a survey of 300 UK-based senior executives across multiple sectors, which also found over 90% of respondents are confident their organisation will meet net zero.
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Germany to miss 2045 net zero target despite energy transition progress -report
Germany is set to cover nearly half of its energy needs with electricity by 2050, but emissions cuts will fall short of the country’s 2045 net zero goal, according to a report released Thursday.
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Millions of CORSIA-eligible cookstove credits will be ready by Q3, says developer
Cookstove carbon credits from a large clean cooking programme in Africa will be verified and made available for CORSIA Phase 1 by the end of the third quarter of the year, said the head of the project developer, paving the way for millions of eligible units to come on to the market per year.
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Canadian nonprofit announces C$3 mln funding call for CDR
A BC nonprofit has launched a call for projects to apply for C$3 million ($2 mln) in available funding aimed at developing early-stage carbon dioxide removal (CDR) initiatives.
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Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.
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Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud
The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.
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Urgent action needed to tackle methane emissions -EU agency
The European Environment Agency (EEA) has said more action is needed to control and reduce methane emissions across Europe and globally, in a briefing published on Thursday.
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UK tech companies announce AI-driven biodiversity risk partnership
An AI-focused research centre, established by a subsidiary of one of Japan’s largest insurers, and a nature data company have announced a partnership on a biodiversity risk product.
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Cuba to leverage Article 6 finance to achieve conditional NDC targets
Cuba’s third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) has specified that it will use Article 6 cooperative approaches to secure climate finance, helping it to achieve conditional Paris Agreement goals.
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Frontier buyers commit $30.6 mln in electrochemical DAC deal
Frontier has facilitated offtake agreements worth $30.6 million for an electrochemical direct air capture (DAC) developer to remove 47,000 tons of CO2 between 2027 and 2030, the buyers coalition announced Thursday.
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Drax fires warning shot over BECCS investment in the UK
Energy company Drax Global could roll back investment in its flagship bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant in the UK, it said Thursday.
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Bloomberg, General Index expand voluntary carbon market partnership, over 200 credit price assessments added to Terminal
Bloomberg and benchmark provider General Index (GX) have expanded their strategic collaboration to enhance access to voluntary carbon market (VCM) price data on the Bloomberg Terminal, the companies announced on Thursday.
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