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Investor group teams up to finance nature-based carbon removal project in Panama

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 19:15
A group of investors has partnered to finance a reforestation project in Panama aiming to restore 10,000 hectares of degraded tropical forests and generate over 3 million carbon removal credits.
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Trigger-happy councils mowing down our spring flowers? There’s a better way to do things | Phineas Harper

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 19:00

The No Mow May campaign has persuaded local authorities to protect biodiversity. But bigger changes are needed

This time last year, residents of the council estate where I live in Greenwich were left in tears after local authority contractors mowed down scores of newly planted purple alliums on our shared lawn just days after they’d bloomed. In minutes, one man with a strimmer had reduced the flowers that my neighbours, many of whom do not have private gardens, had grown over months to mere mulch.

Shamefaced, this year the council sought to make amends by sowing a biodiversity meadow near where the alliums had met their fate. The new wildflowers were doing well – on track to compensate for the previous year’s blunder – until, to the consternation of residents, they were yet again mown down by council contractors. Even the local authorities’ own efforts to improve the biodiversity of the borough proved no match for its trigger-happy lawnmower men.

Phineas Harper is a writer and curator

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South Korea should consider additional carbon trading scheme for regions, researchers say

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 18:33
South Korea should consider more policy arrangements for domestic cities to utilise carbon market mechanisms, such as the creation of a regional carbon trading framework, to drive down emissions from the urban sector, researchers have suggested.
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Green policies take back seat in EU leadership debate

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 18:25
A debate on Tuesday among lead contenders for the post of European Commission President made little room for green considerations, with discussions focusing mostly on defence spending and the need to protect Europe’s interests in the face of China's aggressive economic policies.
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UN-backed alliance seeks to settle on a definition of biodiversity credits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 18:00
The UN-backed Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA) on Wednesday released a paper seeking to give a definition of biodiversity credits and associated terms, in an attempt to avoid the market making a false start.
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Chickens, ducks, seals and cows: a dangerous bird flu strain is everywhere but Australia, for now

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-05-22 16:14
Migratory birds could bring the lethal bird flu variant that is assailing the rest of the world’s birds. Michelle Wille, Senior research fellow, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Climate change made UK's waterlogged winter worse

BBC - Wed, 2024-05-22 16:05
One farmer in Lincolnshire told the BBC that a third of his farm could not be planted in time this year.
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Proponents steam ahead to submit ACCU method proposals by July deadline, conference hears

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 15:53
Market participants are scrambling to submit methods to develop Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the government’s interim process, as Canberra itself is still finalising methods that have been in the works for a long time.
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‘Never-ending’ UK rain made 10 times more likely by climate crisis, study says

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 15:00

Winter downpours also made 20% wetter and will occur every three years without urgent carbon cuts, experts warn

The seemingly “never-ending” rain last autumn and winter in the UK and Ireland was made 10 times more likely and 20% wetter by human-caused global heating, a study has found.

More than a dozen storms battered the region in quick succession between October and March, which was the second-wettest such period in nearly two centuries of records. The downpour led to severe floods, at least 20 deaths, severe damage to homes and infrastructure, power blackouts, travel cancellations, and heavy losses of crops and livestock.

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The flooded buildings of Porto Alegre, Brazil – in pictures

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 15:00

Photographer Gideon Mendel has filmed and photographed floods around the world extensively. He travelled by boat through the historic town centre of Port Alegre, documenting the reflections across a city that had become a liquid landscape

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US says Russia likely launched anti-satellite weapon

BBC - Wed, 2024-05-22 14:22
The Russian satellite launched last week may be capable of attacking other satellites, the Pentagon says.
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Australian Repair Market to launch in January with a single method, official says

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 13:04
Australia will release the first Nature Repair Market methodology in January, a government official said Wednesday, officially kicking off the world's first government-regulated voluntary biodiversity credit market.
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’Shocking' and 'stupid': New Zealand man fined after attempting to 'body slam' an orca – video

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 11:47

The New Zealand Department of Conservation has released vision of a man appearing to attempt to 'body slam' an Orca, describing the behaviour as 'shocking and stupid'. The 50-year-old Auckland man has been fined $600. Hayden Loper, a principal investigator at the department, says the man showed reckless disregard for his own safety and that of the orca. “The video speaks for itself, it is shocking and absolutely idiotic behaviour."

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