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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva says Amazonia suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has flown into the Amazon amid growing alarm over the droughts and wildfires sweeping the rainforest region and others parts of Brazil.

Speaking during a visit to a riverside community near the city of Tefé, the Brazilian president said Amazonia was suffering its worst drought in more than 40 years. He said he had come to discover “what is going on with these mighty rivers” that in some places now resemble deserts.

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Coca-Cola and the Bayer Foundation are backing a new climate fund with a total $1 million investment that aims to invest in 350 projects across Latin America and the Caribbean.

South Carolina’s Attorney General (AG) has backed oil and gas firms in a lawsuit brought by a city that seeks compensation from fossil fuel companies for the impacts of their alleged climate deception and environmental negligence.

A major Canadian investment company announced its first foray into sustainable aviation fuels Tuesday with a $1.1 billion investment in a Californian low-carbon electrofuels (efuels) developer.

Sovereign buyers of Article 6 carbon credits plan to press ahead on fleshing out agreements with host nations despite a lack of clarity on several key trade technicalities, describing capacity constraints as presenting as a greater obstacle to ramping up much-needed unit supply.

Rising temperatures causing largest glacier in Dolomites to lose 7-10cm of depth a day, according to scientists

The Marmolada glacier, the largest and most symbolic of the Dolomites, could melt completely by 2040 owing to rising average temperatures, experts have said.

Italian scientists who are monitoring glaciers and the impact of climate emergency, and who took part in a campaign launched by environmentalist group Legambiente, the international commission for the protection of the Alps (Cipra), with the scientific partnership of the Italian Glacier Committee, said on Monday the Marmolada was losing between 7 and 10cm of depth a day.

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Researchers have responded to criticism about their paper discussing the percentage of biodiversity found in territories managed by Indigenous Peoples (IPs).

The Project hopes competition will raise big money for underfunded organisations working to protect beloved species

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Tense competition is brewing between the greater glider and the koala in Australia’s marsupial of the year vote but there are hopes a silky-tailed species that “mates themselves to death” could win over voters and maybe even save it from heading towards extinction.

Network Ten’s The Project launched the competition in collaboration with organisations and charities that work with or help preserve the habitat of marsupials, many of them endangered, in a bid to raise funds for them.

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A big tech giant has struck a deal to purchase direct air capture (DAC) removal credits for the cheapest price on record - $100 per tonne - starting in the early 2030s, it announced on Tuesday.

A measurement and automation technology company has collaborated with a Toronto-based measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) company for better accuracy, reliability, and traceability in carbon management, according to a press release.

A major carmaker in Japan has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Thailand to develop a prototype for Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) managed by private companies in a bid to take the Southeast Asian nation closer to meeting its biodiversity commitments.

Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions

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Campaigners have claimed some of the world’s largest economies are turning their backs on a pledge made last year to transition away from fossil fuels.

Ministers from the G20 group of developed and developing countries, including the US, UK, China and India, will meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss the global approach to the climate crisis.

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The UK's offshore oil and gas industry cut its emissions by 4% in 2023 and by just over a quarter in the past five years, although the emissions intensity of every barrel is increasing as production declines, the country's regulator said on Tuesday.

A group of Australian NGOs has urged the Australian government to secure its bid in hosting the UN COP31 talks in 2026 in partnership with the Pacific, describing it as a “nation-building” activity that could provide a slew of national and regional benefits.

Verra has lifted its suspension of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project (SCRP) after a 14-month investigation found the huge avoided deforestation scheme in Cambodia conformed to its standards, dismissing allegations of human rights violations.

An Abu Dhabi-based asset management firm announced Tuesday that it has signed a deal with a Malawi-based reforestation company to plant 6 million indigenous trees and prevent the deforestation of over 4 mln trees in the country.

A London-based carbon removal (CDR) marketplace has partnered with a carbon tracking tech firm to integrate its measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) data to boost transparency in the market.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) has opened a public consultation on regulatory documents devised for GCC 2.0 - the body’s new standard that will govern Article 6.2 eligibility of projects and their issuances.

Agricultural emissions in the EU could fall by nearly two-thirds by 2050, but policies - possibly including a dedicated emissions trading scheme - are needed to drive the necessary shift, according to research published on Tuesday. 

Under the Tories, non-violent climate protesters were jailed for up to five years – and there is little sign that Labour will change tack

• Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International

In December 2023 when Stephen Gingell was sentenced to six months in prison for slow marching for half an hour on the Holloway Road in north London, the sentence was considered shocking. Unfortunately, it is far from the exception. In fact, my organisation, Climate Rights International, has spent the past eight months looking into restrictions on climate protests among western democracies and has found that the UK – mostly under the Conservatives – has introduced some of the harshest anti-protest legislation in recent years.

You may remember Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, who were sentenced to multi-year prison sentences in April 2023 for climbing the cables of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge to object to new oil, gas and coal projects. The three-year sentence imposed on Trowland was, at the time, the longest ever for a climate protest in the UK. But, it has since been surpassed. In July, in a case that made international headlines, five fossil-fuel protesters were sentenced to four- and five-year sentences after participating in a Zoom call about staging climate protests on the M25.

Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International

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