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Drax to pay €400/t in BECCS voluntary carbon removals deal
Kermit the Frog honoured in new fossil find
UK opens public consultation on carbon border tariff design
Here’s why there is no nuclear option for Australia to reach net zero | Alan Finkel
Any call to go directly from coal to nuclear is effectively a call to delay decarbonisation of our electricity system by 20 years
The battle lines have been drawn over Australia’s energy future.
With the nation signed up to net zero emissions by 2050, the Albanese Labor government is committed to renewables. The Coalition wants nuclear.
Continue reading...Iberdrola channels large share of €41 bln investment plan to US clean energy
Venture capital nature tech investments rise 18% in 2023 with biodiversity credits bets rising
UNFCCC, IEA agree to monitor and promote a 1.5C-aligned energy transition
Sustainable support for farmers must go further, experts say
Norfolk pub put at risk by ‘Britain’s most flooded road’
Welney landlord fears business may not survive impact of increasingly lengthy spells of flooding on customer numbers
Dennis Birch estimates his pub loses about £3,000 a week when the road into the village of Welney is closed because of flooding – and this winter, it was closed for a record-breaking 89 days.
Now labelled “the most flooded road in Britain”, Birch said he questions whether the 18th-century Lamb and Flag can survive the impact the flooding has on the number of customers coming through his door.
Continue reading...African cookstove carbon project developer attracts $18 mln in funding
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Paris-based carbon accounting firm raises $52 mln in Series B
Global cement emissions to double by the end of the century, research says
Verra, Gold Standard still not fully approved for voluntary credit eligibility in CORSIA Phase 1
INTERVIEW: UK could become CO2 import hub and export CCS capabilities globally
Forestry carbon projects supported by current science, other NBS uncertain -study
New alliance launched to promote enhanced weathering technologies for carbon removals
I discovered why seemingly healthy amphibians were being wiped out
The mass deaths were puzzling scientists around the world – there were no signs of viruses or parasites. Then we looked closely at their skin
It was while we were sitting and talking in a hotel bar at the first global congress of herpetology that the world’s amphibian experts realised there was a problem: frogs, toads, salamanders and newts were disappearing in their thousands around the world and nobody understood why.
Not a single talk at the 1989 congress at the University of Kent had discussed the strange disappearance of the world’s amphibians. But scientist after scientist had the same story: from Central America to Australia, they were vanishing.
Continue reading...TotalEnergies voluntary carbon credit portfolio reaches 11 mln, to quadruple by 2030
Kate Winslet, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana do underwater photoshoot for ocean conservation charity
Stars of Avatar: The Way of Water photographed in baroque style by Christy Lee Rogers
Photographs of the actors Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver seemingly floating underwater in elaborate blue dresses, with eyes shut and arms outstretched, are to be sold to raise money for ocean conservation.
The images are the work of one of the world’s most celebrated underwater photographers, Christy Lee Rogers, who teamed up with the stars of the 2022 film Avatar: The Way of Water and its director, James Cameron, a longtime proponent of ocean conservation, who commissioned the photoshoot.
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