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EU nations postpone vote on due diligence for corporate climate neutrality plans
European Parliament to vote on corporate voluntary carbon credit use
The risks and opportunities of stacking with UK biodiversity net gain -lawyer
Barclays tightens guardrails around oil and gas, promotes energy transition
Puro updates voluntary carbon removals rules to align with ICVCM, CORSIA
Qatar LNG supply deal will make India dependent on fossil imports, say experts
Ghana on collision course with UN as it presses ahead with cookstoves emissions calculation
GBF Fund lays groundwork for nature funding applications
Several voluntary carbon programmes “very close” to CORSIA Phase 1 eligibility, says UN aviation body
US climate scientist Michael Mann wins $1m in defamation lawsuit
Scientist wins award against conservative writers who said his work was ‘fraudulent’ and that he ‘molested and tortured’ data
The high-profile climate scientist Michael Mann has been awarded $1m by a jury in a defamation lawsuit against two conservative writers who compared his depictions of global heating to the work of a convicted child molester.
The case stretches back 12 years. In a statement posted on Mann’s X account, one of his lawyers said: “Today’s verdict vindicates Mike Mann’s good name and reputation. It also is a big victory for truth and scientists everywhere who dedicate their lives answering vital scientific questions impacting human health and the planet.”
Continue reading...INTERVIEW: New marketplace quantifies social impact to support growing ESG goals
IUCN’s Red List of Ecosystems key to supporting GBF, study says
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London council rips out playgrounds to build houses – then runs out of cash
Experts say boarded-up communal space illustrates crisis in social housing funding and need to protect play areas
Families in south London say their children have stopped playing outside after communal spaces and playgrounds were ripped out to make room for new homes and then left boarded up when Southwark council ran out of money.
The council began tearing down large parts of the Bells Gardens and Lindley estates in Peckham last August but abandoned the build in January due to a funding crisis driven by rising interest rates. All that remains of the previous play area is a small pitch surrounded by hoardings and out of sight of the flats.
Continue reading...The world is reducing its reliance on fossil fuels – except for in three key sectors
Dramatic changes in energy industry and EVs reducing fossil fuel use, but shipping, aviation and industry a long way from net zero
Humanity has made some uneven progress in reducing our addiction to fossil fuels – but there remain three areas of our lives in which we are notably not on track to kick the habit over the next 30 years, according to a new analysis.
Record levels of investment in clean energy (solar has been called the cheapest source of electricity in history by the International Energy Agency) and a decline in coal-powered generation means less and less of the world’s power will come from fossil fuels between now and 2050, the analysis from Rhodium shows.
Continue reading...Ex-Blackrock executive prepares land-focused natural capital strategy at food investor
Major steel producer to scale carbon capture and utilisation pilot
French advertising company to spend €20 mln on voluntary carbon credits
The week in wildlife – in pictures: a crafty hippo, golf course monkeys and a sunbathing manatee
The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
Continue reading...Asthma emergency admissions plunged as lockdown improved air, Oxford study finds
First study to tally asthma exacerbations with air pollution during pandemic finds numbers admitted to A&E fell 41% in 2020
A new study in Oxford has found that emergency hospital admissions for asthma dropped by 41% in 2020 as air pollution from traffic fell due to Covid restrictions.
Dr Suzanne Bartington from the University of Birmingham, who led the Oxford study, said: “The Covid-19 pandemic led to a unique opportunity where we could study the impacts of rapid changes in human activities on air quality.”
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