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Countries to talk about climate pledges, finance ahead of COP29

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 02:57
The run-up to November's COP29 climate summit kicks off this week, with around 40 climate ministers and leaders meeting in Denmark to talk about the two key issues on the table for Azerbaijan: strengthened climate pledges and more finance.
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Campaigners win lawsuit against airline’s carbon offsetting claims

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 02:23
A court in the Netherlands has ruled that climate claims, including use of voluntary carbon credits, made by a European air carrier constituted greenwashing, in a decision that could set a legal precedent for wider offset use in international aviation.
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Transport to make ‘almost half’ of Europe’s emissions in 2030 -report

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 02:16
Transport alone is set to make up nearly half of Europe’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2030, according to fresh data published on Wednesday.
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Endangered pygmy hippo born at Athens zoo – video

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-03-21 01:27

For the first time in 10 years, a baby pygmy hippo has been born at Attica Zoological Park. Zoo staff said they were thrilled to welcome the birth as a lack of male pygmy hippos in captivity made breeding efforts complicated. The rare male calf was born on 19 February and joins his parents, Lizzie and Jamal, as the only pygmy hippos at the zoo. Native to western Africa, pygmy hippos are listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature

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Price crash wipes $5 bln off the value of surplus voluntary carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 01:26
The crash in prices since January 2022 has wiped $5 billion off the value of available credits in the voluntary carbon market, but the surplus today is still worth $4.7 bln, finds a new report.
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Lagging UKA demand to rise by 2030, prices to hit triple digits, say analysts

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 00:49
Oversupply in the UK ETS will be depleted by 2029 and allowance prices could reach as high as £136, according to analyst forecasts, speaking on a webinar Wednesday.
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PREVIEW: France, US to push financing for new projects at world’s first nuclear energy summit

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 00:24
Brussels will play host on Thursday to the first ever nuclear energy summit, with France and the US pushing for new financing mechanisms to be deployed across the globe to help countries ditch coal and transition away from fossil fuels.
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Clermont locals pushed for this Queensland mine. Now Adani is fighting for the right not to employ them

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-03-21 00:00

The state rescinded its decision over Carmichael mine fly-in, fly-out jobs but it’s unlikely to be the end of the dispute

When Adani’s north Queensland coalmine obtained its final approvals in 2019, the residents of Clermont held an impromptu celebration at the Leo hotel.

“Our town needs it, everyone’s passionate about it, it will be great for the community. A welcome, welcome thing,” one local at the pub told the ABC.

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Global logistics firm partners with bank to scale sustainable aviation fuel

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 23:40
An international shipping firm has teamed up with a large bank to to co-invest in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and generate voluntary carbon credits.
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World’s top fossil-fuel bosses deride efforts to move away from oil and gas

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-03-20 23:00

Executives at Texas summit claim clean-energy transition is failing and say world should ‘abandon the fantasy’ of fossil-fuel phaseout

The bosses of the world’s leading oil and gas companies have poured scorn on efforts to move away from fossil fuels, complaining that a “visibly failing” transition to clean energy was being pushed forward at an “unrealistic pace”.

The oil executives, gathered at the industry’s annual Cera Week conference in Houston, Texas, have taken turns this week to denounce calls for a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels, despite widespread acknowledgment within the industry, as well as scientists and governments, of the need to radically reduce planet-heating emissions to avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis.

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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 22:18
European carbon prices were little changed by midday, after moving in their narrowest range in more than a month amid a marked decrease in trading activity on Wednesday, as the weekly Commitment of Traders data showed a third successive decrease in investment funds' net short position.
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Automakers can set 1.5C-aligned targets for cars on the road, with new SBTi guidance

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 21:36
Automakers can now align voluntary emissions reductions from their largest source of pollution — people driving their vehicles — with a pathway to limiting global warming to 1.5C, based on revised guidance released Wednesday by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). 
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UK Infrastructure Bank commits £50 mln to fund seeking to commercialise nature, climate research

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 21:33
The UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) has committed up to £50 million ($64 mln) to a first-of-its-kind venture capital fund seeking to create and scale businesses that harness nature and climate solutions developed by British research institutes.
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FEATURE: Oslo incinerator plans to raise up to €50 mln from voluntary market to fund carbon capture facility

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 20:57
A waste-to-energy plant in the Norwegian capital is planning to sell an initial 50,000 removal credits on the voluntary carbon market by the summer in a bid to raise capital for the construction of a carbon capture and storage (CCS) facility.
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Prioritise Article 6, global coal miner suggests in climate plan

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 20:31
One of the world’s largest coal miners would like to see Article 6 negotiations concluded so it can better trade carbon credits and decarbonise operations, it said Wednesday.
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South African exchange to start voluntary carbon credit trade within two months -Bloomberg

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 19:48
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) will start trading voluntary carbon credits within a matter of months, its chief executive told Bloomberg.
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China could cut carbon emissions from steel by 11% with greener furnaces -report

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-03-20 18:56
China's steel sector has the potential to cut carbon emissions by as much as 11% by 2025 if the government sets a more ambitious target for the adoption of electric arc furnaces (EAFs), a report has found.
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