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Europe’s exhausted oyster reefs ‘once covered area size of Northern Ireland’

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-03 19:00

Study uncovers vivid and poignant accounts of reefs as high as houses off countries including UK, France and Ireland

Only a handful of natural oyster reefs measuring at most a few square metres cling on precariously along European coasts after being wiped out by overfishing, dredging and pollution.

A study led by British scientists has discovered how extensive they once were, with reefs as high as a house covering at least 1.7m hectares (4.2m acres) from Norway to the Mediterranean, an area larger than Northern Ireland.

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Japanese trading house launches digital system to scale forest carbon projects

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 17:57
A major trading house in Japan has launched a system that can standardise and digitalise the work needed for creating domestically issued carbon offsets from forestry projects. 
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Laos prepares for access to international carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 16:51
Heavily forested Laos has issued a decree to "define principles" around cooperation in multilateral carbon market projects, a state-run newspaper said Thursday.
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Australia Market Roundup: Energy company dumps hydrogen project, Woodside registers another ACCU project

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 16:34
Australian energy gentailer Origin announced on Thursday it would shelve a hydrogen development project due to a lack of certainty, while Woodside Energy continues to register new carbon credit projects.
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The medicines we take to stay healthy are harming nature. Here’s what needs to change

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-10-03 15:45
Modern pharmaceuticals have revolutionised disease prevention and treatment. But eventually, the chemicals can end up in rivers, oceans and soils. Lauren T. May, Senior Lecturer and Group Leader, Drug Discovery Biology, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University Manuela Jorg, Research Fellow & Lab Head in Medicinal Chemistry, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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NZ officials call for better exotic forest regulations

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 14:41
New Zealand government officials have recommended exotic forestry be defined within the country’s National Environmental Standards for Commercial Forestry (NES-CF), in order to better regulate the sector that drives carbon credit supply in the country, according to a report published Thursday.
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Former EU environment chief hits out at plans to delay anti-deforestation law

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-03 14:00

Credibility ‘damaged’ by proposed 12-month delay, which followed lobbying from governments and firms around the world

A former top environment official has said the EU’s credibility on its climate commitments has been damaged by plans for a one-year delay to a law to combat deforestation that followed intense lobbying from companies and governments around the world.

Virginijus Sinkevičius, a Lithuanian MEP who was the environment commissioner until mid-July, said postponing the deforestation regulation would be “a step backward in the fight against climate change”.

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Nature in England at risk as amount of protected land falls to 2.93%, data shows

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-03 14:00

Experts are calling for ‘rapid rescue package’ for nature to improve condition of protected sites

The amount of land that is protected for nature in England has fallen to just 2.93%, despite government promises to conserve 30% of it by 2030, new data reveals.

Campaigners are calling for a “rapid rescue package for UK nature”, as government delegates head to Cop16, the international nature summit, which will take place from 21 October in Colombia. They intend to ask other countries to stick to ambitious nature targets.

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The secret life of greater gliders: sneezes, squabbles and a brand-new baby – video

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-03 12:14

A camera installed inside a tree hollow in a New South Wales is capturing the lives of a family of greater gliders, eastern Australia’s largest gliding possums. Australian National University ecologist Dr Ana Gracanin installed the camera – which is now streaming live – to raise awareness about the plight of the endangered animal. Habitat destruction, including land clearing, logging and climate-fuelled bushfires, have led to greater glider populations declining by 80% in some areas

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Long-time European utility carbon trader joins Dutch bank

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 11:22
A European carbon trader that spent the past 20+ years in various roles at energy companies has joined a Dutch bank.
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US regulators charge former CQC boss Newcombe, ex-COO with fraud in landmark VCM case

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 08:55
US regulators have charged Ken Newcombe, the former CEO of project developer CQC Impact Investors LLC (CQC), and the company's ex-COO with fraud, accusing them of submitting false, misleading, or inaccurate reports relating to the generation of voluntary carbon credits.
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CAR adopts Argentina livestock methane protocol

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 08:21
The Climate Action Reserve (CAR) adopted Wednesday its Argentina Livestock Protocol Version 1.0, which intends to provide guidance to account for and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions via the capture and destruction of methane from livestock farms.
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Large-scale Illinois CO2 injection well pauses operations following EPA violation

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 06:50
A large-scale CO2 well in Illinois has paused injection for two weeks as operators diagnose an underground leak that resulted in a permit violation notice from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in August, according to documents shared with Carbon Pulse.
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Irish climate tech firm joins European Space Agency incubation programme

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-03 06:30
An Irish company specialising in carbon removal (CDR) via industrial hemp has joined the European Space Agency's (ESA) national business incubation programme, it announced Wednesday.
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