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UN organizers allow groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action to attend, watchdog finds

Influential industry trade groups, thinktanks and public relations agencies with a track record in climate denialism and misleading the public have been given access to the UN climate talks in Dubai, the Guardian can reveal.

Corporate Accountability, a transparency watchdog, has found that UN organizers greenlighted access to groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action, giving them the same or greater access to the international negotiations as Indigenous communities, human rights groups and climate justice organizations.

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Three mothers from different continents say their love for their children has motivated them to take climate action.

Many see hydrogen as the green fuel of the future so underground deposits of the gas could be valuable.

It just goes round and round

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A group of scientists has called for a retraction of research published earlier this year that called into question the climate impact of some  REDD forest protection projects, saying it contained “major flaws.”

New England solar farm reaches full output and now plays host to 2,000 sheep, a number that will treble in coming months, making it the biggest mob of sheep doing solar grazing in Australia.

The post Australia’s biggest solar farm reaches peak output, now to host 6,000 sheep appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A US direct air capture (DAC) technology firm announced Monday that it had used Department of Energy funding to design a system with the potential to capture 1 million tonnes of carbon per year.

The US Department of the Interior has announced new initiatives to employ nature-based solutions through strategies designed to preserve biodiversity, enhance resilience against natural disasters, and support climate adaptation.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values soared to new year-to-date (YtD) highs with a step up in secondary market volumes traded through a mid-week Q4 auction that triggered additional sale volume.

The Turkish ETS will not initially be open to non-compliance players and will feature a rising emissions cap rather than a decreasing one, the head of the government’s carbon pricing department told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of COP28 in Dubai.

A US project developer and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) have penned partnerships with two African countries that call for millions of hectares of land to be restored, with as much as 3 billion tonnes of CO2 to be sequestered over the next half century.

Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, says umbrella group of countries is united in saying draft agreement is too weak

A group of countries including Australia, the US, the UK, Canada and Japan have said they will “not be a co-signatory” to “death certificates” for small island states, and have demanded a stronger agreement at the Cop28 summit to deal with fossil fuels and address the climate crisis.

A statement delivered by the Australian climate change minister, Chris Bowen, on behalf of what’s known as the umbrella group of countries, came as tensions flared at the United Arab Emirates over the text of a draft deal proposed by the summit presidency.

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UN organizers allow groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action to attend, watchdog finds

More than 160 industry trade groups, thinktanks and public relations agencies with a track record in climate denialism and misleading the public have been given access to the UN climate talks in Dubai, the Guardian can reveal.

Corporate Accountability, a transparency watchdog, has found that UN organizers greenlighted access to groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action, giving them the same or greater access to the international negotiations as Indigenous communities, human rights groups and climate justice organizations.

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More than 50 institutions on Monday called on the US Congress to make amendments to the federal CO2 sequestration tax credit in upcoming legislative proposals.

A new report from the Biodiversity Council reveals the disturbing effects of artificial light on Australia’s nocturnal animals. Here’s how you can help wildlife at Christmas and all year round. Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Loren Fardell, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland Sarah Bekessy, Professor in Sustainability and Urban Planning, Leader, Interdisciplinary Conservation Science Research Group (ICON Science), RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Bargain hunting dominated the voluntary carbon market (VCM) last week where activity started to slow down for the year, despite the emergence of the first correspondingly adjusted credits that are expected to create a new tier of trading.

Carbon credit rating agencies risk undermining financial flows by grading projects in a fragmented and retroactive way, developers have outlined in a paper that takes aim at the companies that have judged much of their work as poor in recent years.

Puro.earth’s carbon removals standard has proposed changes to enable it to gain the ICVCM’s CCP integrity label and be eligible for use in the CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme.

Voluntary market certifiers Gold Standard and Verra have partnered with Singapore to develop a playbook for standard operating procedures for countries active in the Paris-era carbon market, they announced Monday.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is nothing more than a fig leaf designed to keep fossil fuel industries booming and polluting according to a panel on the sidelines of COP28 in Dubai.