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Japanese startup to develop reforestation monitoring scheme in Brazil

Carbon Pulse - 25 min 44 sec ago
A Tokyo-based carbon credit due diligence provider has teamed with a non-profit to develop a monitoring scheme for reforestation projects in Brazil, it announced Wednesday.
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German multinational to receive first carbon credits from rice farming project in India

Carbon Pulse - 1 hour 57 min ago
A Germany-headquartered multinational is receiving the first 250,000 carbon credits from a sustainable rice farming project in India, it announced Wednesday.
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EU releases draft rules for green jet fuels reporting under UN’s CORSIA scheme

Carbon Pulse - 2 hours 6 min ago
The European Commission on Tuesday released draft implementing rules for the monitoring, reporting and verification of fuels eligible under the UN’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
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ANALYSIS: Slow uptake, high costs seen hindering growth of carbon credit insurance

Carbon Pulse - 2 hours 19 min ago
The emerging market for carbon credit insurance faces several barriers, with slow adoption and cost concerns holding back its wider uptake, according to industry experts.
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FEATURE: New round of NDCs ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to integrate nature into climate action

Carbon Pulse - 3 hours 35 min ago
The update of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement poses an unprecedented opportunity to integrate nature protection into countries' climate strategies, as early submissions have sparked hope despite the need for stronger targets, experts told Carbon Pulse.
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Last year 'one of the worst for UK butterflies'

BBC - 5 hours 23 min ago
Dr Richard Fox, from Butterfly Conservation, says he is "devastated" by the apparent decline.
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Waste tyre review after BBC investigation

BBC - 5 hours 29 min ago
Environment Agency review waste tyre exports after BBC probe reveals millions sent to furnaces in India.
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Last summer was second worst for common UK butterflies since 1976

The Guardian - 5 hours 36 min ago

More than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline, UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme finds

Last summer was the fifth worst in nearly half a century for butterflies in Britain, according to the biggest scientific survey of insect populations in the world.

For the first time since scientific recording began in 1976, more than half of Britain’s 59 native species are in long-term decline.

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An elusive worm: the Salinella is shrouded in mystery

The Guardian - 5 hours 36 min ago

A 19th-century zoologist found the ‘little salt dweller’, which could be a portal to the past – if only we could locate it again

Last February, with colleagues Gert and Philipp and my daughter Francesca, I made the long journey to an unremarkable city called Río Cuarto, east of the Argentinian Andes. We went in search of a worm of unusual distinction.

Why a worm? As humans, we naturally love the animals that are most familiar. But from a zoologist’s point of view, the vertebrates, from mammals and birds to frogs and fish, can be seen as variations on a single theme. We all have a head at one end (with skull, eyes and jaws); in the middle, a couple of pairs of limbs (a goldfish’s fins, or your arms and legs); and, holding all this together, a backbone ending in a tail.

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ANALYSIS: Australia’s draft IFLM method shows long way to go to resolve key outstanding issues, stakeholders say

Carbon Pulse - 5 hours 43 min ago
The release of the Australian government’s update on the new integrated farm land management (IFLM) method has been given a lukewarm reception, with stakeholders raising concerns about the volume of outstanding issues yet to be settled.
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South Korea urged to raise ambition levels in next NDC

Carbon Pulse - 6 hours 6 min ago
An NGO has called for South Korea to cut GHG emissions by two-thirds by 2035 or reach its carbon neutrality target at least five years earlier to meet its carbon budget.
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New partnership aims to help small businesses tackle emissions

Carbon Pulse - 7 hours 48 min ago
An Australian-headquartered global business platform is teaming up with a carbon accounting software provider to help small businesses address their emissions.
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Flagship CCS project in Belgium postponed – again

Carbon Pulse - 10 hours 20 min ago
A billion-euro investment in a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Antwerp has been further postponed pending additional public funds, Belgian media reported at the weekend.
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