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Indonesia Business Council publishes wish-list for country’s carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 13:28
Encouraging the government to calculate GHG emissions limits and grant funding to industrial players are key priorities Indonesia’s peak business group wants to help nurture its carbon market, according to recommendations published this week.
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WCI Markets: CCA, WCA prices rebound amid rulemaking updates from officials

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 10:12
Both California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices during the Mar. 14-20 period recovered from last week's plunge, driven partly by additional information from regulators regarding the future of the schemes.
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Canada’s industrial carbon pricing scheme outshines fossil fuel tax when it comes to emissions cuts -study

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 09:48
Canada’s industrial emitter carbon pricing policy is three to four times more impactful in greenhouse gas abatement than the country’s carbon tax on fossil fuels, a new analysis has found.
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Women and girls suffer first when droughts hit poor and rural areas, says UN

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-03-22 09:01

World water development report warns that access is major source of conflict between countries

Women and girls are the first to suffer when drought strikes poor and rural areas, and water strategies around the world must reflect this, the UN has said in a plea to countries to mend conflicts over water resources.

Stress on water resources, which is being exacerbated by the climate crisis, as well as overuse and pollution of the world’s freshwater systems, is a large source of conflict, according to the latest UN world water development report.

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UK firm's 4K video cameras head to space station

BBC - Fri, 2024-03-22 08:52
London company SEN's ultra high-definition cameras intend to stream spectacular views of Earth.
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UK firm's 4K video cameras head to space station

BBC - Fri, 2024-03-22 08:52
London company SEN's ultra high-definition cameras intend to stream spectacular views of Earth.
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Anthropocene unit of geological time is rejected

BBC - Fri, 2024-03-22 05:43
A proposal to codify a new geological epoch based on humanity's influence on Earth is rebuffed.
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Almost a third of Australia’s plant species may have to migrate south if we hit 3 degrees of warming

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-03-22 05:07
Our plant species are pickier about their preferred temperature range than you would expect. That means many will have to move south, seeking cooler climes. Julian Schrader, Lecturer in Plant Ecology, Macquarie University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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CEZ buys up EU carbon permits for 2025 at €96/t

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 04:21
Czech utility CEZ has bought over 6 million EUAs for its 2025 compliance at an average €96 per tonne, according to its 2023 annual report published Thursday.
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Scottish grouse moors to be licensed in attempt to protect birds of prey

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-03-22 04:14

MSPs vote for controls as it emerges another hen harrier has vanished in area ‘notorious’ for persecution

Grouse moors across Scotland will be required to hold licences and could face shooting bans as part of radical measures to combat bird of prey persecution passed by MSPs on Thursday.

The Scottish parliament voted for the controls amid intense pressure from conservation scientists and campaigners after decades of illegal attacks on birds of prey by gamekeepers instructed to protect grouse on shooting estates from being eaten.

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Microsoft inks latest purchase of 95,000 voluntary CDR credits after string of deals

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 03:56
Microsoft has signed a pre-purchase agreement with a Swiss carbon project developer for 95,000 voluntary carbon removal (CDR) credits from a biochar facility in Mexico, following shortly after Shell struck a similar deal.
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Political leaders tout high hopes for nuclear power on the road to net zero emissions

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 03:07
Growing enthusiasm for nuclear energy was put on display at the first-ever Nuclear Energy Summit in Brussels on Thursday, but a new generation of nuclear power plants will not be possible without access to large amounts of finance, leaders stressed, while also acknowledging the industry's image problem.
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Dutch civil rights group warns “wider investigation” findings will follow Kenyan REDD carbon project scandal

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-22 02:47
A Dutch civil rights campaigner group has placed the avoided deforestation voluntary carbon sector on red alert with a pledge to soon publish a ‘wider investigation’ on offsetting and human rights, which builds on its covert probe that uncovered sexual offences by senior staff at a Kenyan project.
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