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NZ Market: Govt announces change to confidential auction methodology as NZU price inches up

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 14:44
The New Zealand government has adjusted the methodology for calculating the confidential reserve price (CRP) at its quarterly auctions, as the NZU price has ticked steadily higher in recent days.
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The Gomeroi win puts native title holders in a stronger position to fight fossil fuel projects on their land

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-03-08 14:05
A first-of-its-kind legal decision puts native title holders in a stronger position when fighting fossil fuel projects. The Gomeroi people won their appeal against the Native Title Tribunal. Lily O'Neill, Senior Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Rebekkah Markey-Towler, PhD Candidate, Melbourne Law School, and Research fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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CF ASIA: Australia seen unlikely to need or want international units under Safeguard Mechanism

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 13:44
Australia is unlikely to open its carbon markets to international operators thanks to likely adequate or too much domestic supply, and a powerful agricultural lobby that would oppose any move to do so, according to analysts.
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Women under-represented in sub-Saharan African clean energy firms but still far ahead of the G20, global average -report

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 12:12
Sub-Saharan African (SSA) women remain “severely under-represented” in management at clean energy companies, but insights from women in the field can inform better outcomes, according to a joint report published Sunday by an NGO and a recruitment company.
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Forestry conservation projects face chop in DRC after govt committee reassesses concession contracts

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 11:30
A number of forestry conservation schemes in the Democratic Republic of Congo, including a Verra-approved REDD+ avoided deforestation project that has sold some 1.3 million voluntary offsets to date, are in line for the chop after a senior government committee recommended that their concession contracts be cancelled for breaking the law.
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WCI Markets: CCAs head lower with WCA sell-off post Q1 auction

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 11:24
California Carbon Allowance (CCAs) prices have reversed direction to return to their post-auction lows, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) took a hit after the state attempted to clarify the implications of a voter-led initiative that could upend the cap-and-trade scheme.
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Mass die-offs rising among farmed salmon

BBC - Fri, 2024-03-08 10:52
Warmer seas and greater reliance on technology are linked to hundreds of millions of farmed salmon deaths.
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Massachusetts Clean Heat Standard could see changes to emissions reduction targets, biofuel use

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 10:25
Massachusetts’ Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) presented potential adjustments to its draft Clean Heat Standard (CHS), as the agency solicits a final round of comments in advance of a new proposal, staff outlined during a community webinar Thursday.
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Fifth mass coral bleaching event in eight years hits Great Barrier Reef, marine park authority confirms

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-03-08 10:20

Particular concern raised for southern areas of the reef that have not been badly bleached since 2016 with ‘high risk’ of significant coral death

Lord Howe island faces ‘major’ coral bleaching as ocean temperatures continue to break records

The Great Barrier Reef is in the grip of a mass coral bleaching event driven by global heating – the fifth in only eight years – the marine park’s government authority has confirmed.

The authority, together with scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, have completed aerial surveys across 300 reefs over two thirds of the reef, with more to come.

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North American firms partner to monitor direct ocean capture

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 10:02
A Montreal-based carbon removal project developer will evaluate direct ocean capture conducted at its facility through a partnership with a US ocean monitoring firm, the firms announced Thursday.
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The Southern Ocean upwelling is a mecca for whales and tuna that’s worth celebrating and protecting

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-03-08 09:22
This marine ecosystem is so important it’s one of the main reasons the federal government has greatly reduced the area available for offshore wind farms in the region. Jochen Kaempf, Associate Professor of Natural Sciences (Oceanography), Flinders University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Fished for their meat and liver oil, many remarkable deep-water sharks and rays now face extinction

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-03-08 05:03
Long lifespans and slow reproduction rates make deep-water sharks and rays as vulnerable to overexploitation as whales once were. We must place them under protection to avoid extinctions. Brittany Finucci, Fisheries Scientist, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Cassandra Rigby, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Euro Markets: EUAs post modest drop in volatile trading as profit-taking and new shorts compete

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 03:15
European carbon prices swung violently for a second day on Thursday as continued short covering sustained the market after a weak auction, pushing it above key technical resistance levels, before longer term shorts reasserted themselves in the afternoon and unwound the day's gains.
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Galicia presents carbon market decree for consultation as regional voluntary schemes emerge in Spain

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-08 03:04
The autonomous region of Galicia in Spain opened legislation to structure a local voluntary carbon market (VCM) for public consultation on Wednesday, following a similar regional initiative announced by Catalonia in December and in time with Murcia’s proposal on Tuesday.
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