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Pledge signed by scientists from nine countries reflects concerns that offsets generated from forest-related projects may not have reduced emissions

Carbon offsets used by corporations around the world to lower their reportable greenhouse gas emissions are “ineffectual” and “hindering the energy transition”, according to more than 60 leading climate change scientists.

A pledge signed by scientists from nine countries, including the UK, US and Australia, said the “only path that can prevent further escalation of climate impacts” was “real zero” and not “net zero”.

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Researchers gain deeper understanding of bird migration in study that could have ‘profound’ implications for windfarms

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The yearly travel plans of birds up and down Australia’s east coast have been revealed for the first time, using the same tool that tracks the weather – a development experts say could have “profound” implications for conservation as more windfarms are built.

Scientists have used weather radars to show that bird migration across eastern Australia occurs in structured patterns. While many Australian bird species are known to be seasonally migratory, scientists previously did not know to what extent a distinct system existed.

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The Michelin-starred restaurateur has signed an open letter demanding delivery of £15m to divert produce to food banks and soup kitchens

Chef Tom Kerridge is teaming up with charities to demand delivery of a promised £15m fund to divert fresh but unused food from farms to food banks and soup kitchens across the country.

Repeated promises have been made by former ministers to fund the food waste reduction scheme, which effectively compensates farmers for harvesting, storing and packaging the food that would otherwise head into landfill or animal feed.

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Hundreds of health workers sign letter to General Medical Council calling for halt to suspensions as GP faces jail for activism

Hundreds of health workers have called on the General Medical Council to stop suspending doctors imprisoned for peaceful climate activism ahead of a trial which could see the first jailing of a working GP for a non-violent climate protest in the UK.

Two retired GPs have been suspended by GMC-convened tribunals this year after receiving short sentences for non-violent offences during Just Stop Oil and Insulate Britain protests in 2021 and 2022. The medical regulator did not express concerns about the doctors’ clinical capabilities but said their actions undermined public confidence in the profession.

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Broken Hill battery finally charges up to support power supplies in the storm damaged region, but why was the technology to support a micro-grid deliberately disabled in the first place?

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The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is set to release a beta version of a nature data public facility in 2025 to enable pilot testing with companies, in a bid to catalyse data funding, it announced on Saturday.

Negotiators at the UN biodiversity summit in Cali scored some minor victories during the first half of the talks, but all the major issues remain deadlocked and will likely need ministers to put real money on the table next week to be resolved, according to experts.

A Swedish consortium on Saturday announced a global biodiversity credit standard focused on production landscapes, with plans to establish an independent, non-profit standard-setting organisation within six months.

UN negotiations in Colombia have led to "excellent progress" towards creating a new process for identifying key marine biodiversity areas, in a move that observers consider essential for achieving some of the most critical global ocean targets.

Legions of young people are getting organised, skilling up, raising their voices and placing their bodies in the path of those who profit from our addiction

Not long before the Nazis murdered him, the Lutheran pastor and resister Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “the ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children”.

That moral challenge is timeless. But with the climate emergency upon us, it has an unsettling new edge, and with that in mind, I’ve been preoccupied lately by the under-appreciated power of solidarity.

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Africa’s largest conservation organisation and a Germany-based nature tech company are set to issue 14,000 nature units, for a total value of approximately $35 million, generated through conservation projects across four African countries, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A France-based organisation has published a market framework to align biodiversity credit projects with national strategies, enabling companies to claim their contribution to governments' targets on nature, the co-founders told Carbon Pulse.

Contentious government support for bioenergy could qualify as a subsidy harmful to biodiversity under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), but the topic could be sidelined entirely at COP16 by the focus on other agenda items, an NGO policy expert has told Carbon Pulse.

The UK should commit to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, the country’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has recommended, as part of the country’s updated contribution to the Paris Agreement ahead of the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan next month.

Ghana is on track to transact its first batch of Article 6 carbon credits before the end of Q1 2025, according to government officials.

A joint letter signed by over 140 civil society organisations (CSOs) and experts has laid out priority areas for promoting the health of water and wetlands, highlighting COP16 themes of finance and the nature-climate nexus.

Carbon standards body Verra this week released an updated version of methodology for Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects that seek to earn carbon credits through preventing logging.

The government's advisers say faster action is needed but the UK has the tools to achieve this.

Climate Change Committee advised Ed Miliband to cut level by 81% but activists want bigger promises

Climate campaigners have urged ministers to make steeper cuts in the UK’s greenhouse gas emissions after the government’s statutory adviser on the climate gave its verdict on new targets.

The Climate Change Committee, which advises the government, has written to Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, to advise cuts of 81% in the UK’s emissions, compared with 1990 levels, by 2035, if emissions from aviation and shipping are excluded.

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Ten days after Broken Hill was isolated when storms below down transmission lines - and a day after Renew Economy asked what's going on - the local big battery will finally start doing what it is supposed to do.

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