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INTERVIEW: Startup seeks to boost coffee yield, climate resilience with mobile biochar reactors

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-04-12 00:51
Improving the climate resilience of smallholder farms while strengthening coffee supply chains is the focus of a Swiss-Colombian startup looking to apply carbon-rich biochar to the soils of coffee plantations, with the sequestration monetised through the sale of removals.
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Voluntary carbon standard advances deforestation risk mapping plans for jurisdictional REDD

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-04-12 00:38
A voluntary carbon standard has made a step forward on a deforestation risk mapping tool for jurisdictional REDD projects by advancing work across the first set of forest-rich nations, it said Thursday.
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EU report flags differences between biodiversity disclosure initiatives

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-04-12 00:24
Key differences between the most prominent biodiversity disclosure initiatives have been examined in a report published by the EU Business & Biodiversity (B&B) Platform.
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Climate target organisation faces staff revolt over carbon-offsetting plan

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-04-11 23:11

Employees at SBTi have called for their CEO to resign over controversial plans which they fear will enable greenwashing

Staff at one of the world’s leading climate-certification organisations have called for the CEO and board members to resign after they announced plans to allow companies to meet their climate targets with carbon offsets.

They fear that companies will use the offsets for greenwashing, while avoiding making the necessary cuts in greenhouse gas emissions – without which the world faces climate catastrophe.

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INTERVIEW: VCMI distinguishes role in light of SBTi voluntary carbon announcement

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 22:59
The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) has maintained that it still has an important role in providing guidance for corporate climate claims and voluntary carbon credit use, in light of an announcement this week from the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) that signalled the body would undergo a major position change and also endorse offset use towards net zero goals.
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EU lawmakers approve reform of power market, leaving room for ‘low-carbon’ gas

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 22:40
The European Parliament voted on Thursday to approve a reform of the EU electricity market design aiming to protect consumers from sudden price shocks, along with a plan to facilitate the uptake of 'low-carbon gases' such as hydrogen.
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Flooded farms in England refused compensation as ‘too far’ from river

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-04-11 22:39

Government recovery fund stipulates affected areas must be less than 150 metres from a ‘main’ river

Farmers who have their entire cropping land submerged underwater have found they are ineligible for a government flooding hardship fund – because their farms are too far from a major river.

According to the Met Office, 1,695.9mm of rain fell from October 2022 to March 2024, the highest amount for any 18-month period in England since the organisation started collecting comparable data in 1836. Scientists have said climate breakdown is likely to cause more intense periods of rain in the UK.

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Ocean CO2 capture developer raises extra funding to support technology scale-up

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 21:38
A California-based direct ocean capture (DOC) company has raised additional funding to support the commercialisation of its technology to harness the ocean's role in carbon absorption.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 21:16
European carbon prices rose sharply on Thursday morning, erasing Wednesday's losses and setting a new 11-week high, as energy prices surged after Russia attacked Ukrainian energy and gas facilities.
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Serbia joins central and southern Europe regional energy exchange as part of preparations for CBAM

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 20:04
Serbia will join Hungary and Slovenia’s regional energy exchange to encourage development and as part of the country’s efforts to avoid having to pay the EU’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) fee, it announced this week.
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Toxic gas, livelihoods under threat and power outages: how a seaweed causes chaos in Caribbean

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-04-11 20:00

Leaders have failed to tackle invasion of sargassum, which may have a bumper year in 2024

Schools evacuated due to toxic gas. Smelly tap water at home. Tourist operators and fishers struggling to stay in business. Job losses. Power outages affecting tens of thousands of people at a time. Dangerous health problems. Even lives lost.

Such crises were some of the consequences of sargassum seaweed in the islands of the Caribbean in 2023, which have become common in the region since 2011, when massive blooms began inundating the shorelines in the spring and summer months.

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Japanese, Thai developers ink deal for JCM project

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 19:44
A Japanese project developer has entered into an agreement with a Bangkok-based firm for an afforestation project in Thailand under Japan’s Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), the companies announced Thursday.
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UK waste-to-energy plans to add CCS to generate carbon-negative power

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 19:35
A UK waste-to-energy company announced Thursday that it is moving ahead with plans to invest £200 million in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology at a site in Wales, which it says will turn the plant into a carbon-negative power producer.
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“Ghost roads” tearing down tropical forests in Asia-Pacific -research

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 18:33
Almost 1.4 million kilometres of roads not marked in official road maps and often built illegally, known as “ghost roads”, are presenting a grave threat to tropical forests in the Asia-Pacific region, researchers have found.
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China releases ecological protection compensation scheme regulations, highlights market-based instruments

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 17:01
China has introduced state-level regulations governing compensation for ecological protection, as the government aims to encourage the use of market-based instruments such as carbon credit purchases. 
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SBTi staff call for CEO to be sacked, immediate reversal of Scope 3 offset use decision -Reuters

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 16:56
An internal letter to the Science Based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) board and CEO has called for the non-profit's chief executive to resign and to reverse the decision to allow companies to use carbon credits to meet Scope 3 emissions targets, Reuters reports.
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China’s coal plant build hits new high in 2023, driving global growth

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 16:27
Global coal capacity rose last year, with China – the world’s largest LNG importer and biggest developer of new solar and wind capacity – accounting for two-thirds of that growth, according to a think tank report published Thursday.
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Dazzling artwork found at ancient city of Pompeii

BBC - Thu, 2024-04-11 16:23
Archaeologists unearth significant new paintings in the ancient Roman town buried by a volcano in AD79.
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FEATURE: Pressure mounts to include plastic credits in UN treaty, verifiers point to increasing interest

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-04-11 16:00
Environmental market standards are intensifying their push to establish an international framework for plastic credits under the UN plastics treaty, even as experts raise concerns over the viability of recycling at scale.
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Who complains about church bells or cicadas in France? You’d be surprised | Dale Berning Sawa

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-04-11 16:00

Visitors to the countryside objecting to a variety of rural noises are such a problem that legislators feel compelled to act

The French parliament is taking aim at noise complaints in the countryside. Lawmakers say they are well acquainted with the problem of residents who have moved to the countryside from the big cities bemoaning the way livestock, church bells and other rural sounds impinge on their newly claimed right to pastoral quiet.

A new law aims to stop these néoruraux (rural newcomers) from taking farmers to court over farming activities that were already happening long before they arrived. Opposition MPs have derided the new bill as hot air, because it mostly just reorganises existing bits of legislation. But what is new is an emphasis on what the justice minister, Éric Dupond-Moretti, calls le vivre-ensemble: living together in a respectful way – something I feel is sorely needed.

Dale Berning Sawa is a freelance writer based in London

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