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Authorisation rules at centre of CORSIA approval block on voluntary carbon standards

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 19:46
ICAO has requested that voluntary carbon projects account for the supply risk if a host country revokes its authorisation for credit use in CORSIA as a condition for approving standards for the current 2024-26 phase of the international aviation offsetting scheme, after no new issuing bodies were given the green light at a key meeting last week.
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FEATURE: EU ‘pretty open’ to carbon removal incentives, including from ETS

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 19:05
The European Commission is looking at regulatory and financial incentives to support carbon removal technologies, a senior EU official has confirmed, insisting though that removals should be used as “a complement, not a substitute” to emission reductions.
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Beijing released revamped carbon trading rules for local market

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 18:57
The Beijing municipal government has released revised management rules for carbon trading under its local emissions scheme, adding more legal clout to back the operations of the pilot market.
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CDR companies team up to advance removal projects in North America’s pulp and paper sector

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 18:05
Two carbon capture tech companies have signed an agreement to collaborate on developing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects for the US and Canadiam pulp and paper industries, they announced Monday.
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Changes in Antarctica’s glaciers and ice sheets: in pictures

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-03-25 17:00

Turkey’s 8th National Antarctic Science Expedition is seeking answers to questions about the future of the world with 22 different projects on the continent. Anadolu Agency’s photojournalist Sebnem Coskun is documenting the expedition’s scientific research, climate change impacts and life in the region to share the findings with the world.
The expedition involves uncovering concealed data within the ice, gathered from years of research on crucial topics like sea ice and glacier dynamics.

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Charity, carbon developer partner on nature-based solution to benefit children

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 15:29
An international charity organisation is partnering with an Australian project developer and advisory to develop nature-based carbon projects in the Asia Pacific, with a focus on benefitting children, it announced.
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Civil society groups sign actvist investor letter urging gas giant shareholders to vote on climate

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 13:43
Activist shareholder group Market Forces has called on retirement fund AustralianSuper to put heat on Woodside Energy’s development plans at its April annual general meeting to be held in Perth.
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Industry shutdowns are messy and painful: 4 lessons Australia’s coal sector can learn from car-makers about bowing out

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:42
The closure of Australia’s coal-fired power stations will be challenging. The car industry experience provides lessons on how to protect workers and families. Vigya Sharma, Senior Research Fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Julia Loginova, Research fellow, Sustainable Minerals Institute, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Investors seek certainty on Australian fossil fuel phase out, resilience and adaptation plans, survey finds

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-03-25 12:31
While sentiment and confidence in Australia has improved thanks to significant climate policy progress, investors are waiting on the government to provide clear timelines on phasing out fossil fuels, a survey has found.
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Scientists to hunt mysterious 'ghost' particles

BBC - Mon, 2024-03-25 10:49
Physicists believe a new experiment could prove their existence and answer fundamental questions about our Universe.
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Could Labor dissent on energy see Plibersek’s veto on offshore gas projects restored? | Paul Karp

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-03-25 00:00

Internal lobbying has added safeguards to a power for the resources minister to water down consultation requirements

The Albanese government has kept a lid on dissent over changes to the approval process for offshore gas projects, but a late internal push has seen the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, regain a power to prevent consultation rules being watered down.

While the resources minister, Madeleine King, had labelled claims she was taking over environmental approvals a “conspiracy theory”, widespread opposition from the Greens, the crossbench, First Nations activists and environmental groups spurred an informal Labor pro-climate group into action.

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Ernie the owl to retire after 30 years at Warwick Castle

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-03-24 21:48

African Verreaux’s eagle owl to make final flyover during Easter holidays before move to Yorkshire Dales

Any night owl who has spent 30 years of working all day would be dreaming of retirement.

Such is the case for Ernie, an owl with a “big personality”, who will be quitting after delighting guests at Warwick Castle for three decades.

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Which will melt away first, the snow or the arts? | Stewart Lee

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-03-24 20:00

Keir Starmer will need to make it affordable to be an artist, because the value of art is beyond financial metrics

Nineteen years ago now, I was asked to perform my standup high in the Colorado Rockies at the Aspen comedy festival, a trade fair for the American comedy industry patronised by wealthy locals. In super-affluent Aspen, I discovered, to my horror, economically uncompetitive service industry workers were homed in special “employee housing projects”, like castrated catering cyborgs from a Russian science fiction novel, sleeping in pods, dreaming of electric sheep. But today that system seems benign compared with the housing poverty of Sunak island.

In Aspen, the famous comedians were domiciled in luxury hotels. I was in a cheap motel on the edge of town, where I breakfasted daily with a quartet of equally undervalued underground comic book writers, regarded as witless savants nonetheless capable of providing content by the predatory industry vampires. Daniel Clowes told me the contents of his Oscar ceremony goody bag – the film of his Ghost World comic was nominated – were worth more than everything he had earned as a writer to that point.

Stewart Lee’s Basic Lee is at Cambridge Arts theatre 15-16 April

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