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Over 40% of securities held by French financials highly dependent on ecosystems, study finds

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 23:28
French financial institutions are highly exposed to risks associated with biodiversity loss, with over 40% of securities in their portfolios issued by companies heavily dependent on at least one ecosystem service, a paper has found.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 21:27
European carbon prices jumped steeply on Monday morning and approached a five-month high after natural gas markets were roiled by an unscheduled outage in the North Sea, while UK Allowances also climbed to their most in nearly eight months.
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Sure, the Taylor Swift millipede is the least of our problems – but what we call wildlife matters | Emma Beddington

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 20:00

The SpongeBob SquarePants fungus and Shakira wasp might sound funny, but there is a rising acceptance that eponyms in the natural world are a legacy of empire and oppression

Unsurprisingly, numerous species of animal (including a flightless weevil and a parasitic flatworm) are named after David Attenborough – but were you aware of the existence of a Shakira wasp (aleoides Shakira) and the Taylor Swift millipede (nannaria swiftae)?

It’s not just fauna. Spring on middle-aged-lady Instagram is a riot of people posting pics of their Gertrude Jekyll (a formidable horticulturist) roses and there are hundreds of others named for everyone from Judi Dench to Jimmy Greaves. We name the natural world for people we admire and want to honour, and always have; even asteroids, which makes me wonder if anything out there has named us. (The dismissive alien equivalent of “flightless weevils” perhaps?)

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Paris airports group looking for voluntary carbon credits to offset emissions

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 19:40
The operating entity of three Paris airports closes a tender Monday for the provision of voluntary carbon credits from France-based projects to offset some of the group's annual emissions.
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India’s biggest packaged water company proposes framework to establish water credits for the beverage industry

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 15:54
India’s biggest bottled water company has proposed developing a framework for establishing water credits to make the beverage industry accountable for its water use. 
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LSEG, Japanese financial sign VCM collaboration agreement

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 15:05
A Japanese financial institution has signed an agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) to collaborate on growing carbon markets, they announced in a joint statement Monday.
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Shanghai sells all allowances on offer at CO2 auction

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 13:21
The Shanghai municipal government on Friday sold all 1 million CO2 permits that were on offer, with the sale clearing in line with the secondary market, well above the auction’s price floor.
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ID Market: Ministry officials blame lack of awareness for carbon exchange’s low activity

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:56
Indonesian Ministry of Finance officials have attributed the limited activity on the country’s national carbon exchange to a lack of awareness, as its staff continue to hold seminars and information sessions to get the word out.
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Notorious seed-stealing koala caught in brazen daylight robbery in northern NSW – video

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:44

Claude the koala was caught eating 4,050 food tree seedlings at Eastern Forest Nursery near Lismore in 2023. The bandit continues to return for a meal at the nursery, as workers look on. Conservationists say Claude's behaviour is part of a bigger problem as heavy land clearing has meant that there isn't enough food in the local area for koalas to eat

  • Daylight robbery: Claude the ‘leaf thief’ koala caught munching seedlings

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Leaf thief: viral sensation Claude the koala returns to nursery to munch on seedlings in broad daylight

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 12:30

Koala became online hit after sampling wares at NSW nursery, but conservationists say increasingly brazen behaviour highlights serious issue

Claude the koala became Australia’s cutest thief and a viral sensation when he was filmed munching on seedlings at a nursery near Lismore last September.

But fame has only made him more brazen, with the hungry marsupial now helping himself to a weekday feed in front of staff at Eastern Forest Nursery.

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Could a green investment deal help Indonesia and Australia overcome their past tensions?

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-03 10:05
The relationship between neighbours Australia and Indonesia has gone through major swings. Could the green transition offer a win-win? Cahyani Widi Larasakti, PhD Student in International Relations, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Why do so few people cycle for transport in Australia? 6 ideas on how to reap all the benefits of bikes

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-06-03 06:03
We want healthy, liveable cities and to cut emissions to net zero. Getting more people to use bicycles instead of cars will go a long way towards achieving these goals. Melanie Davern, Associate Professor, Director Australian Urban Observatory, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Afshin Jafari, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Alan Both, Senior Lecturer in Spatial Science, RMIT University Jago Dodson, Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Urban Futures Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT University Lucy Gunn, Senior Research Fellow, Healthy Liveable Cities Group, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University Qian (Chayn) Sun, Associate Professor of Geospatial Science, RMIT University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Are the climate wars really over, or has a new era of greenwashing just begun? | Joëlle Gergis

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-06-03 01:00

In a new Quarterly Essay, Joëlle Gergis says that while Rome wasn’t built in a day, the Albanese government’s lack of action on climate change does not reflect the urgency of the crisis

Although the 2022 federal election ushered in a new era of progressive politics in Australia, as Labor’s first term in power has progressed many people are now wondering if the political deadlock on our nation’s climate policy has really been broken.

Although some good ground has been made, the federal government’s actions still don’t reflect the urgency of the planetary-scale crisis we are in. Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions are rising and enormous fossil fuel projects continue to be approved to meet domestic and international demand.

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‘It’s all we have’: young climate activists on the state of politics around the world

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-06-02 19:39

With elections affecting half the world’s population this year, campaigners offer their views on the chances of real change

This year elections are taking place across the globe, covering almost half of the world’s population. It is also likely to be, yet again, the hottest year recorded as the climate crisis intensifies. The Guardian asked young climate activists around the world what they want from the elections and whether politics is working in the fight to halt global heating.

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