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VCM Report: Market hopeful for COP29 boost despite weak liquidity
Saudi firm to launch voluntary carbon exchange at COP29 -media
DATA DIVE: Britain’s coal achievement comes against backdrop of ever-increasing global consumption
Majority of buyers prefer carbon removals to avoidance, reductions -survey
Kenyan cookstove manufacturer secures $9 mln investment through carbon credit partnership
EU agriculture policy failing on climate, auditors say
A butterfly: ‘elbowing each other with the joints on their legs, pushing and shoving to get at the liquid’
We learn about butterflies when we are small because it is foreshadowing: you too will change. But they are an imperfect metaphor for what it feels like to live
The very funny naturalist and writer Redmond O’Hanlon was on a sandbank on the edge of a river in Borneo when hundreds of butterflies started to fly towards him and his travel companion and landed on their boots, trousers, and shirts, and “sucked the sweat from our arms.”
He watched them for a while – “there were Whites, Yellows and Blues, Swallow-tails, black, banded, or spotted with blue-greens” – and then stood up and brushed them off gently.
Continue reading...Australia’s ‘immoral’ coalmine decision akin to drowning its Pacific neighbours, Tuvalu’s climate minister declares
Labor government has undermined case to co-host 2026 UN climate summit with island nations, Dr Maina Talia declares
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Tuvalu’s climate minister says Australia’s decision to approve three coalmine expansions calls into question its claim to be a “member of the Pacific family”, and undermines the Australian case to co-host the 2026 UN climate summit with island nations.
Dr Maina Talia said last week’s mine approvals that analysts say could generate more than 1.3bn tonnes of carbon dioxide across their lifetime once the coal is shipped and burned overseas was “a direct threat to our collective future”.
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Continue reading...Singapore, Ghana issue first call for Article 6 projects
INTERVIEW: Making fuels from plastics using hydrogenolysis moves one step closer
Over 50 firms sign carbon removal standards commitment
BRIEFING: Coal still central to emissions-heavy steelmaking, commodities report finds
LATAM Roundup: J-REDD is king at Climate Week, Colombia releases H1 CO2 tax stats
Senior Tories may push for party to become pro-fracking
Calls grow for lifting of moratorium on onshore drilling in England to become policy under new leader
Senior Conservatives are considering pushing for a lifting of the moratorium on fracking in England to become party policy.
At the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, MPs are reflecting on the crushing blow they were dealt at this year’s general election and coming up with policies and ideas to rebuild the party so it can win in 2029. A leadership election is taking place and candidates are laying out their ideas to MPs.
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