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DATA DIVE: What decarbonising the UK power grid by 2030 would look like

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:51
The cornerstone of the new UK government's climate policy - to accelerate the country's target for 100% clean power to 2030 - has proven divisive, with those who believe it to be pricey and unachievable on one side, against others who say it will be hard, but is worth a shot.
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China thermal power generation drops in June, renewable energy expansion continues

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:36
China saw its domestic thermal power generation decline in June, while renewable energy production continued to grow at a fast pace that could signal a turning point in the country's emission trend.
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FEATURE: The big opportunity of insetting for biodiversity markets

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:20
Many actors in biodiversity see the largest opportunity for biodiversity markets in ‘insetting’, a way of directly supporting nature in their supply chains while potentially generating biodiversity credits, as an alternative to offsetting.
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Singapore delegation goes carbon credit shopping in Ghana

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:50
Singaporean Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan has taken a delegation of 22 companies with him to Ghana this week with the intention of cultivating a pipeline of Article 6 carbon credit projects.
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Investors pour $37 mln into firm turning CO2 into solid rock

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:24
A climate-focused investment fund has completed a $37 million Series A investment round in a leading provider of carbon mineralisation technology, aiming to accelerate the process of turning CO2 into solid rock for permanent sequestration.
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SK Market: Monthly KAU auction again oversubscribed, price likely to remain steady until compliance deadline

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:20
South Korea's latest monthly CO2 permit auction was again oversubscribed, with analysts expecting permit prices to remain steady throughout the rest of the current compliance period.
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First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 17:00

Tess, a 40-year-old female at Houston zoo, has been given a trial mRNA vaccine to help combat the virus, a leading killer of calves in captivity

An Asian elephant at Houston zoo in the US has received the first mRNA vaccine against herpes, which is the leading killer of Asian elephants calves in captivity.

Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant, was injected with the trial vaccine at the Texas zoo in June, after a spate of deaths in juveniles in zoos around the world from the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV).

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The horror of everything all the time! Wait a minute, here is a happy snail story! | First Dog on the Moon

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 16:38

Political violence is not OK but what about snails are they OK?

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ERAC closes first interim process for ACCU method proposals

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 15:58
Australia’s Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee (ERAC) has wrapped up its first expression of interest (EOI) period seeking new methods to generate Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs), with 43 proposals put forward by stakeholders.
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Ed Miliband to lead UK negotiations at Cop29 climate summit

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 15:00

Senior climate figures welcome move after Conservative government largely left the role to junior ministers

Ed Miliband is to take personal control of the UK’s negotiations at vital international climate talks, in stark contrast to his Tory predecessors.

The energy security and net zero secretary will attend Cop29, this year’s UN climate summit, in Azerbaijan this November to head the UK’s delegation and meet political leaders from around the world.

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Lost area of Welsh rainforest to be returned to ancient glory

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 14:00

Site in Pembrokeshire currently grazed by sheep will be planted with a range of species and reconnect to Celtic past

A lost piece of Celtic rainforest in the far south-west of Wales is to be restored to its ancient glory, weaving around standing stones and an abandoned, tumbling-down farmhouse with a waterwheel.

The 59-hectare (146-acre) site in Pembrokeshire will be planted with species such as oak, small-leaf lime and wild service (Sorbus torminalis) and should support an abundance of mosses, liverworts, lichens and ferns as well as providing a home for animals and other plant life.

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Idiotfruit and tree kangaroos: here’s why the ancient rainforests of Queensland’s Wet Tropics are so distinctive

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-07-15 10:11
Australia’s ancient Wet Tropics are enormously rich in species. But these tight-knit ecosystems might be at risk from cascading extinctions Seamus Doherty, PhD student, Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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