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Germany awards first ‘climate contracts’ to support industry with transition
BRIEFING: ‘Huge uncertainty’ in US carbon markets if Trump elected, as integrity bodies plough on with guidelines
Financial supervisors are neglecting nature, WWF says
Biodiversity market held back by lack of financial materiality, policy impetus -analysts
Where will space exploration take us in the next 50 years?
‘I love the smell of success more than petrol’: investors break with tradition in world-leading climate campaign
Investors say climate change poses biggest risk to their assets, and urge Albanese government to see the economic dangers of a slow path to net zero
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Institutional investors dealing with portfolios in the trillions of dollars aren’t typically the most vocal climate campaigners. You won’t find many superannuation fund staff, fund managers, asset consultants or brokers with a placard on the streets or on top of a Newcastle coal train.
But you may increasingly find them on a screen you’re watching. Or at least their message.
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Continue reading...EU needs policy for “nature-inclusive” solar, TNC says
Argentine J-REDD programme could issue around 10 mln credits in Q4
UK energy-from-waste incinerators almost as emissions-intensive as coal-fired power, finds analysis
French biotech startup raises €3.3 mln to produce carbon-negative rubber
Finnish waste management company produces first biodegradable plastic from CO2 emissions
Project 2025 dietary rollbacks would limit fight against ultra-processed foods
Conservative ‘wish list’ of policies for a future Trump administration goes so far as transforming food and farming
When Project 2025 began making headlines this summer, it was largely for the ways the conservative “wish list” of policies for a future Trump administration would restructure the entire federal bureaucracy, deepen abortion restrictions and eliminate the Department of Education.
But the document – a proposed mandate for the next Republican president authored by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative thinktank – also outlines steps that would radically transform food and farming, curtailing recent progress to address the excess of ultra-processed foods in the United States. Among those: weakening the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Snap), ending policies that consider the effects of climate change – and eliminating the US dietary guidelines.
Continue reading...A US university has a new requirement to graduate: take a climate change course
UC San Diego has added an innovative prerequisite to ‘prepare students for the future they really will encounter’
Melani Callicott, a human biology major at the University of California, San Diego, thinks about the climate crisis all the time. She discusses it with family and friends because of the intensity of hurricanes like Milton and Helene, which have ravaged the southern US, she says. “It just seems like it’s affecting more people every day.”
That’s one reason why she is glad that UC San Diego has implemented an innovative graduation requirement for students starting this autumn: a course in climate change. Courses must cover at least 30% climate-related content and address two of four areas, including scientific foundations, human impacts, mitigation strategies, and project-based learning. About 7,000 students from the class of 2028 will be affected this year.
Continue reading...Verra launches additionality tools to align with ICVCM CCP requirements
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Logging in Australian state kills or displaces 300,000 animals a year, report estimates
Cost of dealing with PFAS problem sites ‘frightening’, says Environment Agency
Exclusive: EA warns it lacks budget to tackle England’s rising number of potential ‘forever chemicals’ locations
The number of sites identified as potentially having been polluted with banned cancer-causing “forever chemicals” in England is on the rise, and the Environment Agency (EA) says it does not have the budget to deal with them.
A former RAF airfield in Cambridgeshire and a fire service college in the Cotswolds have joined a chemicals plant in Lancashire and a fire protection equipment supplier in North Yorkshire on the agency’s list of “problem sites” for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).
Continue reading...New Citibank-backed clean energy marketplace to launch in Q1 2025
Clean energy growth moving faster in developing countries than rich nations, finds report
Mysterious gooey blobs washed up on Canada beaches baffle experts
Residents and marine scientists unable to identify pale masses, as myriad theories are blown out of the water
They are slimy on the outside, firm and spongy on the inside and surprisingly combustible. And in recent months, they have been washing up on the shores of Newfoundland.
The depths of the Atlantic have long held mysteries, but the riddle of the mysterious white “blobs” spotted on the beaches of the eastern Canadian province has baffled both residents and marine scientists.
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