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Ocean acidification close to critical threshold, say scientists, posing threat to marine ecosystems and global liveability

Industrial civilisation is close to breaching a seventh planetary boundary, and may already have crossed it, according to scientists who have compiled the latest report on the state of the world’s life-support systems.

“Ocean acidification is approaching a critical threshold”, particularly in higher-latitude regions, says the latest report on planetary boundaries. “The growing acidification poses an increasing threat to marine ecosystems.”

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Turkiye's energy exchange EPIAS has teamed up with an international carbon standard to enable the first exchange-based trading of certified credits on its platform, they announced after signing an agreement in New York on Monday.

Verra is digitalising its most used methodologies from a largely paper-based system, in an effort to speed up the certification process for project developers while strengthening integrity, the voluntary carbon standard's chief technology officer said at Climate Week NYC on Monday.

Drone footage shows flooded streets in the village of Érsekcsanád in southern Hungary after heavy rainfall caused the Danube River to overflow. Parts of the region have experienced five times the average rainfall for the month of September, leaving large swathes of land submerged in floodwater. Central Europe was recently hit by extensive flooding, which left several people dead and caused billions of euros in damage.

• Floods in Poland and wildfires in Portugal show reality of climate breakdown, says EU

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The Egyptian voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a capital market and will be regulated as such to ensure its financial credibility, Egypt’s top finance regulator told Carbon Pulse in an interview.

There’s a war brewing between those who want to plan for future challenges and those who want to turn back the tide

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The leadership of Australian farming is a club that has strict rules. Like the classic movie Fight Club, the first rule about farm club is you don’t talk about farm club.

But that doesn’t always work out well for farmers. There are clever people in the leadership club who are loath to speak out.

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Optimism continued to creep back into the voluntary sector last week, although most avoidance prices remained depressed as the market polarised between the cheap and the good quality.

Research published Monday outlined how carbon projects can ensure transparent compensation for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs) in a bid to move past recent criticism of the voluntary sector.

The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million policy-based loan to help Indonesia accelerate its energy transition and achieve its net zero targets.

Carbon removal buyers club Frontier has agreed a deal worth over $25 million for credits linked to river de-acidification from a Canadian firm.

A project developer for Indigenous-led conservation projects will partner with an atmospheric-based digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (aMRV) solution provider to map 1 million acres across 12 Afforestation, Reforestation, and Restoration (ARR) projects.

The Danish government has stepped forward to ask the European Commission to alter a law that allows EU companies to export pesticides banned in the bloc.

Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina on Monday announced two of its subsidiaries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that over time will see the company enter the market for transport of liquid CO2 (LCO2).

A transcript reveals the OceanGate chief in a heated exchange, years before he and four others died when the submersible imploded.

European carbon prices strengthened on Monday as they built on Friday's recovery, taking cues once again from a stronger TTF gas market, though analysts continued to point to technical indicators that could see prices break to the downside.

A California-based venture capital firm focusing on climate technology has announced the closure of a $10-million decarbonisation fund that supports startups.

Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told

Six water companies overcharged customers between £800m and £1.5bn by “significantly or systematically” underreporting the true scale of their sewage pollution of rivers and waterways, a tribunal has heard.

In the first environmental competition class action against water companies in England, lawyers argued that the privatised firms had abused their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging from their assets over the past 10 years.

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Temporary mitigation “off-ramps" could help countries manage the significant challenges associated with the rapid decarbonisation experts say is needed to meet global net zero emissions targets.

One of Australia’s largest waste and landfill gas producers is on track to meet climate targets that it says fully align with a Paris 1.5C scenario.

Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy sources could trigger benevolent cascades, report claims

In the terminology of the climate and ecological crises the phrase “tipping point” is loaded with dreadful implications.

It evokes a climate breakdown supercharged by the mass escape of methane locked in Siberian permafrost, or the great currents of the oceans smothered by freshwater melting from the Greenland ice sheet, or the Amazon turning from great rainforest to parched savannah after the felling of one too many trees.

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