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US carbon standard registers first biochar project
CFEL24: Investors call for detailed data to mitigate risks as EU ETS free allocations shrink
RGGI maintains even keel in Q4 auction volumes amidst slump in RGA prices
BRIEFING: UK considering key reforms in next renewables auction
Chile looks to double offsets toward CO2 tax, accept more registries in 2025 -official
Climate finance takes a backseat at key EU council meeting
INTERVIEW: Small sites should be exempt from biodiversity net gain
UK shipping industry lays out £700 mln investment plan to reach net zero by 2050
Earth’s ‘vital signs’ show humanity’s future in balance, say climate experts
Record emissions, temperatures and population mean more scientists are looking into possibility of societal collapse, report says
Many of Earth’s “vital signs” have hit record extremes, indicating that “the future of humanity hangs in the balance”, a group of the world’s most senior climate experts have said.
More and more scientists are now looking into the possibility of societal collapse, says the report, which assessed 35 vital signs in 2023 and found that 25 were worse than ever recorded, including carbon dioxide levels and human population. This indicates a “critical and unpredictable new phase of the climate crisis”, it says.
Continue reading...Scientists contest environment minister’s claim of ‘blitzing’ Australia’s ocean reserve expansion goal
Tanya Plibersek claims Labor is protecting 52% of its ocean territory, but experts say that is ‘misleading’
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Scientists have challenged Tanya Plibersek’s claim that Australia is protecting more than half of its oceans and has “blitzed” a 30% target, arguing industrial longline fishing will still be allowed in some areas the government says it is conserving.
The environment minister told a “global nature-positive summit” in Sydney on Tuesday the government had quadrupled the size of the sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve, a world heritage area about 4,000km south-west of Perth.
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Continue reading...European accelerator marks entry into Indian carbon removals market, selects first cohort of local startups
Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, landowner’s lawyers tell court
Alexander Darwall, owner of Blachford estate in national park, is challenging the right to wild camping
Picnicking on Dartmoor is trespassing, according to the lawyers for a landowner who is challenging the right to wild camping on the moors.
The public should have no right to undertake any activities other than walking or horse riding in the Dartmoor national park without landowner permission, Timothy Morshead KC told a supreme court hearing on Tuesday.
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