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UK hydrogen programme moving ‘at pace’ as government lays out agenda for next year

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 05:01
The UK hydrogen strategy is moving “at pace”, with a number of key milestones reached in 2024, according to a strategy update released on Thursday, which also laid out what policy developments are expected in 2025.
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Strategic enrolment, anticipatory behaviour in JREDD risk undermining fight against mass deforestation, study warns

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 04:42
A new study has raised concerns about the effectiveness of jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD) programmes, revealing how strategic enrolment decisions and anticipatory behaviour risk undermining efforts to curb deforestation and reduce carbon emissions.
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Italy gets EU green light for aid to build 18 GW of new renewables

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 03:37
Italy has received the green light on Tuesday for a €9.7-billion scheme to support the construction of new renewable power capacity that could increase the country's installed total by nearly a third compared to 2023.
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Vietnam makes major changes to planned ETS, analysts find

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 03:36
The latest draft regulations for Vietnam’s planned emissions trading scheme include a number of significant changes that will have a big impact on the market, according to analysts who have seen the unpublished document.
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Euro Markets: EUAs slump late on resumption of sustained selling pressure

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 03:14
The December 2025 EUA future started its run as the benchmark carbon contract trading in a relatively narrow range on Tuesday morning, before prices slumped late in the day to post a 1.5% fall, triggered by a brief period of substantial selling that sources said reflected both positioning changes and technicals.
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Value of retired voluntary carbon credits jumps in 2024 -analysis

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 02:28
The value of credits retired in the voluntary carbon market jumped to around $900 million in the first 11 months of the year, as the market recalibrated around quality and impact, according to research published by a marketplace.
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New stadiums, airports and oil links: the environmental cost of Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-12-18 01:23
The Saudis have won the right to host football’s biggest tournament. But its bid doesn’t seriously address the environmental issues. Matthew Hutchinson, Lecturer in Sport Business Management, Keele University Seth I. Kirby, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Leisure Management, Nottingham Trent University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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FEATURE: CSRD to spell end of companies cherry-picking how they disclose climate risk

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 01:14
The requirement for many large companies to start disclosing under the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) from next year will improve the quality and consistency of reporting on ESG issues, bringing it up to investor-grade quality on par with other financial disclosures, experts have said.
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Major asset managers lead opposition to biodiversity resolutions, NGO finds

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 01:06
Shareholders submitted a record number of biodiversity-related resolutions this year, though most of them have been blocked due to the opposition of some of the world's biggest asset managers, an NGO has said.
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US startup secures $2.3 mln to scale food waste-based carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 00:34
A Boston-headquartered startup has raised $2.3 million to generate carbon offsets from methane emissions avoided by diverting edible food from landfills, the company announced on Monday.
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Professional services multinational teams up with developer to build large-scale ocean carbon removal facility

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 00:25
A multinational professional services firm has joined forces with an ocean-based carbon removal developer to help build a large-scale facility.
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FEATURE: Why Trump’s return might not derail the global nature agenda

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-12-18 00:13
US President-elect Donald Trump’s influence on the global nature agenda may be limited, with policy leaders in areas such as Europe continuing to strengthen action on biodiversity risks unabated, according to experts.
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‘Bad deal for taxpayers’: huge losses from NSW forest logging, reports reveal

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-12-18 00:00

Former MP astonished that taxpayers are ‘literally paying’ to cut down forests sustaining koalas and greater gliders and providing clean drinking water

Two reports revealing the extent of financial losses from native forest logging in New South Wales raise questions about the economic viability of the industry.

The state government’s forestry corporation “consistently made a loss” by paying contractors more for harvesting and haulage than it earned from delivery of timber to sawmills, a NSW Independent Pricing and Review Tribunal (Ipart) report found.

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INTERVIEW: Biodiversity credits could help African smallholders access global markets

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:54
Biodiversity credit markets have the potential to finance African smallholders' transition towards sustainable practices and help them meet new regulations such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the vice president of a Nairobi-headquartered organisation told Carbon Pulse.
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Qatar organisation announces Article 6 carbon credit auctions for early 2025

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:53
A Qatar-based organisation has announced it will hold two auctions early next year for international carbon credits eligible for Article 6 trade.
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Restoration project in England sells second batch of biodiversity credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:42
A Newcastle-headquartered software consultancy and a London-based property investment company have purchased the second batch of voluntary biodiversity credits generated through a nature restoration project in England.
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Carbon credit buying does not help companies decarbonise quicker, claims paper

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:41
Academics have contradicted claims that companies buying carbon credits decarbonise faster than others, although their paper is still not peer reviewed.
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Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges

BBC - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:00
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
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Major report joins dots between world's nature challenges

BBC - Tue, 2024-12-17 23:00
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
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