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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.

Colombia, Kenya, and France on Monday said they will launch an expert review of the relationship between, debt, nature loss, and climate change in a bid to better position nations to solve the three major crises.

Researchers say better representation could elicit interest in lesser-known organisms and help conservation efforts

When Stefano Mammola and Francesco Ficetola went to an ecology conference in Prague in 2021, they met a scientist with an unusual complaint. Jennifer Anderson, an expert in aquatic fungi, lamented that the subject of her research was not available in emoji form.

“If you are doing the important work of trying to save the , you can use graphics to help you communicate this in a very relatable way,” said Anderson, a microbial ecologist at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. “If you are working to save the aquatic fungi, you first must let people know that yes, aquatic fungi exist, then describe in words what they look like – usually not like mushrooms.”

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A series of several ambitious, but achievable, changes could transform Brazil's climate and economy, but more robust efforts are needed, attendees heard from an expert panel discussion on the launch of a report at COP28 Monday.

Chile has signed an implementation agreement with Switzerland under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, as it crafts domestic frameworks and consults with local stakeholders in preparation for the global carbon market, an official told a side event at COP28.

UK energy-from-waste company enfinium said on Monday that it plans to invest up to £800 million in CCS technology, creating what it says would be one of the largest carbon removal projects in Europe.

A new negotiating text on the first ever Global Stocktake (GST) of the Paris Agreement dropped on Monday evening at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, urging nations to cut their fossil fuel consumption and production by mid-century while omitting any reference to phasing them out.

It is Day 12 at COP28 and negotiations are under crunch time to find areas of agreement across key texts, including on the Global Stocktake (GST) and Article 6. Carbon Pulse's team of correspondents continue to chase after news on the ground from the latest texts and sources. In our daily running blog, we will report relevant or useful updates throughout the day. Timestamps are in local time (Gulf Standard Time, GMT+4).

Market actors eagerly await progress on Article 6 as COP28 draws to a close, citing the potential to improve stability and trust in carbon markets, removing the ‘fear of entry’ for buyers currently hesitant to enter the market due to the risk of reputational damage linked to greenwashing.

Text now being considered by governments calls for ‘reducing both consumption and production of fossil fuels’

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Oil-exporting countries will be called upon to reduce their production drastically in the coming decades, if a draft agreement published at the Cop28 UN summit on Monday is accepted.

The text avoids highly contentious calls for a “phase-out” or “phase-down” of fossil fuels, which have been the focus of deep disagreement among the more than 190 countries meeting in Dubai.

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UN talks on carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement were said to be one step away from collapse late on Monday, as "carnage" in rooms negotiating rules for international trading has also hindered progress in those concerning crediting, sources told Carbon Pulse, with language in a new draft text barely recognising experts' work done on methodologies over the past year.