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Handbag designer jailed for wildlife smuggling

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-23 11:43
Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US.
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Handbag designer jailed for wildlife smuggling

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-23 11:43
Nancy Gonzalez recruited relatives to smuggle purses made of illicit python and caiman into the US.
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Vastly bigger than the Black Summer: 84 million hectares of northern Australia burned in 2023

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-23 11:11
The 2023 megafires burnt more than 84 million hectares of desert and savannah in northern Australia. That’s larger than the whole of NSW, or more than three times size of the UK. Rohan Fisher, Information Technology for Development Researcher, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Father begins legal fight against BP for dead son

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-23 10:35
Hussein Julood says the burning of gas at a BP-run oil field in Iraq caused his son's leukaemia.
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California carbon offset greenwashing bill swiftly heads to final Senate committee vote

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 10:28
A Senate bill eyeing more stringent oversight over the purchase and sale of carbon offsets received no public testimony during its third Senate committee hearing on Monday, and now awaits a vote by committee members on whether it will advance to the Senate floor.
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California diesel sales clock record January level since 2008, gasoline continues to decline

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 09:09
California diesel sales in January rose to their highest volumes for that month since 2008, while gasoline sales and emissions decreased year-on-year from 2023, according to state data released Monday.
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Opposition persists as US CO2 pipeline developer reattempts to secure permit

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 08:48
Representatives of CO2 pipeline developer Summit Carbon Solutions (SCS) testified before the North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) on Monday as the company once again attempts to secure a permit for pipeline construction in the state.
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RGGI Markets: Compliance demand holds benchmark prices north of $20

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 08:35
Compliance entities continue to support RGGI allowance prices even as transaction volumes in the secondary market declined through the week, with participants reporting lower snow levels likely impacting imported hydro power.
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DOE dishes out $11 mln for CCS transport infrastructure projects

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 08:08
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday the allocation of $11 million to four CO2 transport projects across multiple states, as the agency continues to enable large-scale carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiatives.
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Potential market rules worry traders as allowances sell off on release of ARB workshop slidedeck

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 06:43
California regulator ARB will discuss potential changes to market rules surrounding corporate disclosures and holding limits in their public rulemaking cap-and-trade workshop scheduled Tuesday, according to a slidedeck posted Monday, which resulted in futures prices in the secondary market selling off.
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Gone in a puff of smoke: 52,000 sq km of ‘long unburnt’ Australian habitat has vanished in 40 years

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-23 06:07
We compiled maps of bushfires and prescribed burns in southern Australia from 1980 to 2021 to see how fire activity is changing habitat for 129 threatened species such as mountain pygmy possums. William Geary, Lecturer in Quantitative Ecology & Biodiversity Conservation, The University of Melbourne Dale Nimmo, Professor in Ecology, Charles Sturt University Julianna Santos, Research fellow in Ecology and Conservation Science, The University of Melbourne Kristina J Macdonald, PhD Candidate, Deakin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Ecosystems are deeply interconnected – environmental research, policy and management should be too

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-23 06:05
Pollution on land inevitably ends up in the sea. Policy makers must stop working in silos and instead consider the indirect consequences human impacts on land have for marine environments. Rebecca Gladstone-Gallagher, Lecturer in Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Conrad Pilditch, Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Waikato Simon Francis Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Net zero has become unhelpful slogan, says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-23 04:06

Chris Stark says populist response and culture war around the term is inhibiting environmental progress

The concept of “net zero” has become a political slogan used to start a “dangerous” culture war over the climate, and may be better dropped, the outgoing head of the UK’s climate watchdog has warned.

Chris Stark, the chief executive of the Climate Change Committee (CCC), said sensible improvements to the economy and people’s lives were being blocked by a populist response to the net zero label, and he would be “intensely relaxed” about losing the term.

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Donors push “exotic” clean cookstoves in Africa instead of valuing carbon projects that work, says envoy

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-23 03:13
Wealthy donor countries are too set on “exotic” carbon projects on the African continent like clean cooking and do not pay enough for more “pragmatic” solutions, according to a Sierra Leonian climate envoy speaking Thursday at the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank in Washington DC.
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