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Experts warn offset system is flawed and can produce credits with no climate benefit

Airlines should focus on reducing emissions from flights instead of using carbon offsets for climate commitments, experts and environmental campaigners have warned.

British Airways and easyJet are among several leading carriers that use carbon offsets to back up claims of “carbon-neutral flying” and net zero pledges by buying credits on behalf of passengers or offering customers that opportunity to buy them when booking tickets.

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Pennsylvania released a draft final RGGI regulation on Tuesday that maintains its initial CO2 cap levels criticised as weak by academics, as well as a 2022 contingency plan amid fervent opposition to the power sector cap-and-trade programme from Republican lawmakers.

A new offset developer with an extensive pipeline of peatland credits is looking for a young energetic and highly motivated partner to implement & manage the offset delivery cycle. The founders have extensive carbon offset experience and well-established contacts with landowners in Scotland.

The German government will next week propose legislation to move its domestic climate neutrality objective forward by five years to 2045 and set higher targets for 2030 and 2040, its finance minister announced Wednesday, in response to a court ruling last week.

A young child buried in a cave 78,000 years ago is the earliest known funeral in Africa.

World faces ‘abrupt jump’ in pace of ice loss around 2060 unless emissions reduced to meet Paris agreement goals, study warns

The current pace of global heating risks unleashing “rapid and unstoppable” sea level rise from the melting of Antarctica’s vast ice sheet, a new research paper has warned.

Unless planet-heating emissions are swiftly reduced to meet the goals of the Paris climate agreement, the world faces a situation where there is an “abrupt jump” in the pace of Antarctic ice loss around 2060, the study states, fueling sea level rise and placing coastal cities in greater peril.

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The US EPA’s proposed regulation to reduce high-global warming potential HFCs could impact voluntary offset initiatives in the short term, as well as limit expansion options for California regulator ARB’s ozone-depleting substance (ODS) protocol, market participants said.

The European Commission on Wednesday presented an updated EU Industrial Strategy, underlining its support for European clean steel production and hinting at the creation of an EU-wide carbon contract-for-difference (CCfDs) scheme.

Southern Water’s proposal to convert saltwater from Solent into tap water labelled ‘bizarre’ and ‘expensive’

Plans to build an energy-hungry desalination plant in the New Forest national park to provide drinking water for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have been condemned by campaigners including the broadcaster Chris Packham.

Southern Water’s proposal for a £600m plant at Fawley to convert saltwater from the Solent into tap water during droughts has been formally opposed by the New Forest national park authority. A separate petition against the plan has attracted several thousand signatures.

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Googly-eyed device to be tested in gillnet fisheries after study finds it deters long-tailed ducks

Scarecrows may be outstanding in their field, but now scientists have created an unusual floating version that could help reduce the number of vulnerable seabirds caught by fishing nets.

The device, known as a looming-eyes buoy (LEB), and developed in collaboration with engineers from Fishtek Marine, was trialled in Küdema Bay, Saaremaa island, Estonia, on long-tailed ducks. It uses bright eyespots and looming movements to act as a natural deterrent, preventing seabirds from diving into gillnets – vertical nets used in small-scale fisheries in many countries.

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The British government will next week publish this year’s free carbon allowance allocation quotas under the new UK ETS, with distribution set to begin "shortly after" that following several months of delays.

Foundation was controversially awarded $443m grant by Turnbull government in 2018 on the basis it would be able to leverage money from private sector

The Great Barrier Reef Foundation has managed to raise just $53.6m towards a $357m fundraising target, according to an auditor general’s review of its controversial partnership with the federal government.

The report by the Australian National Audit Office, published late Wednesday, examined the design and early delivery of the foundation’s work after the awarding of a $443.3m grant by the Turnbull government in 2018, finding it had been “partially effective”.

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UK-based firms ClimateCare and Natural Capital Partners have merged to help build global scale in the rapidly expanding voluntary carbon market.

A study suggests members may have come from southern European coasts, Iberia, and North Africa.

More than 100 Australian companies have issued a joint call to governments to ramp up spending on renewables.

The post “Urgent action needed now”: More than 100 companies demand more renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Fossil fools: Murdoch media has joined Angus Taylor and the coal lobby in pushing capacity markets. But they are not what they think it is.

The post The Australian backs coal capacity payments, but doesn’t know what they are appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new report highlights some emerging but manageable challenges behind the critical minerals required to replace fossil fuels.

The post Renewable revolution will drive demand for critical minerals appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Campaigners say many investments still high carbon and call on firms to sign green pensions charter

Pension funds must set a target of net zero emissions for their investments if the UK is to meet its climate goals, influential figures in climate activism have urged.

Many people are unaware of whether their pensions funds are invested in fossil fuels or high-carbon activities, and even companies that have publicly committed to reaching net zero emissions may have pension fund investments that are still wedded to high-carbon businesses.

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