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Isle of Wight-size iceberg breaks from Antarctica

BBC - Wed, 2024-05-22 03:11
Another big iceberg breaks from in front of the UK's Halley research base - the third in three years.
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ISO’s new climate neutrality standard risks adding to greenwashing, campaigners warn

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 03:06
ISO's new climate neutrality standard risks promoting greenwashing, despite an EU attempt to better regulate environmental claims, an NGO has warned.
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States have legal duty to cut greenhouse emissions, says top maritime court

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 02:29

Wealthy states must cut emissions faster than their developing peers, court says, in major step for climate justice

Greenhouse gases are pollutants that are wrecking the marine environment, and states have a legal responsibility to control them, an international court has stated in a landmark moment for climate justice.

Wealthy nations must cut their emissions faster than their developing peers, the court also decided.

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Two UK firms team up to target Britain’s rich peatland market

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 02:16
Two UK firms are teaming up to support peatland projects in the UK that could generate both carbon and biodiversity credits next year.
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Carbon pricing revenues exceed $100 bln for first time in 2023, still not aligned with Paris -World Bank

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 01:39
Carbon pricing revenues have exceeded $100 billion for the first time, the World Bank said in an annual analysis, though levels continue to fall short of the ambition needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goals.
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Early Article 6 carbon credits on sale above $20 ahead of series of auctions for ITMOs

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 01:24
Around half a million reforestation credits from a project in Kenya are being marketed for sale currently under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement as part of a partnership between a new Qatar-based centre and a marketplace to spearhead the auctions of sovereign credits in the run up to 2030.
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Does the farmer really want a wife? In the reality TV world, good farmers make bad husbands

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 01:00

Prospective partners on Farmer Wants a Wife are asked to give up their lives to support the farm – watching from home, I wonder why they would say yes

A few episodes into the current season of Farmer Wants a Wife, one of the contestants, Farmer Dean, abandons his uteload of prospective love interests at the gate to walk across the red loam soil to check his watermelon crop. Watching from my couch in Cowra, I had two realisations.

The first was that Dean – who left the season halfway through – was probably a “real” farmer, unlike some the show has put up before. The second was that good farmers make less-than-ideal husbands.

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CSIRO puts cost of new nuclear plant at $8.6bn as Coalition stalls on policy details

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-22 01:00

Report finds nuclear energy more expensive than renewable alternatives and calculates costs for large-scale reactors for first time

Electricity from nuclear power in Australia would be at least 50% more expensive than solar and wind, according to a report from the CSIRO that has for the first time calculated costs for large-scale reactors.

The federal Coalition, which has claimed nuclear would provide cheap electricity, is still to reveal any details on its nuclear policy after initially promising it would make an announcement in time for last week’s federal budget.

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UK biodiversity net gain marketplace lists 25,000 units at £30k average

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 00:53
A London-based marketplace has listed over 25,000 off-site biodiversity net gain (BNG) units at an average price of almost £30,000 ($38,000) each, though demand has been slow.
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Nature Positive Initiative announces partnership to find common metrics

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 00:22
The Nature Positive Initiative (NPI) has partnered with consultants EY and The Biodiversity Consultancy (TBC) to establish metrics tailored to nature positive claims.
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UK confirms will not carry over emissions ‘surplus’ to fourth carbon budget

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-22 00:10
The British government confirmed that it will not carry over any so-called 'surplus' emissions from its 2018-22 carbon budget into the current fourth iteration in a statement Tuesday.
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Eagles changed migration route to avoid Ukraine war

BBC - Tue, 2024-05-21 23:20
Scientists believe they avoided perils including artillery fire on their way to their traditional breeding ground.
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Italian firm prepares to launch voluntary biodiversity credit offsetting framework in Europe

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-05-21 22:13
An Italian nature tech firm is poised to release a set of standardised guidelines for a biodiversity framework late this year that will underpin its first certified biodiversity credits in 2025 for the European voluntary market, the company told Carbon Pulse.
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European cement group targets 37% drop in production emissions in updated net zero plan

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-05-21 22:06
The European Cement Association (CEMBUREAU) aims to reduce production emissions 37% by 2030 and by 50% down the value chain, as per an updated net zero roadmap published Tuesday.
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Major Japanese bank begins study on digital carbon credit payments

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-05-21 21:31
One of Japan's leading financial groups is participating in a joint study that explore the potential for utilising domestically produced stablecoins for digital carbon credit payments.
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We’re helping farmers access future climate projections as easily as checking the weather

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-05-21 21:18
We developed My Climate View to help Australian farmers and producers better understand the risks and opportunities they face over the next 50 years. Road-testing with farmers was vital. Stephen Snow, Research Scientist, CSIRO Aysha Fleming, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO Yuwan Malakar, Research Scientist, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-05-21 21:11
European carbon prices gave back some of the previous session's steep gains in a quiet and relatively illiquid session on Tuesday morning, as energy markets also retreated after Monday's robust increases, while UK permit prices continued to trade around their recent four-month high.
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Climate victims file criminal case against bosses of oil firm Total

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-05-21 21:00

Case alleges French company’s exploitation of fossil fuel contributed to deaths of victims in extreme weather disasters

A criminal case has been filed against the CEO and directors of the French oil company TotalEnergies, alleging its fossil fuel exploitation has contributed to the deaths of victims of climate-fuelled extreme weather disasters.

The case was filed in Paris by eight people harmed by extreme weather, and three NGOs. The plaintiffs believe it to be the first such criminal case filed against the individuals running a major oil company. The public prosecutor who received the file has three months to decide whether to open a judicial investigation or dismiss the complaint.

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