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US timberland company to issue 100,000 carbon credits in 2024
Carbon ratings agency partners with UAE bank to ‘bring transparency’ to carbon markets
Direct air capture project launches in France touting better energy efficiency
INTERVIEW: Shanghai Electric launches electrolyser that improves green hydrogen economics
Entertainment company buys first biodiversity credits under UK govt-linked voluntary scheme
Japan’s MOL, others look to use animal manure to fuel factories, vessels
Qatari organisation launches Article 6 carbon auction platform
DRC partnership launches carbon credit investment bank, forest certification strategy
SwitchedOn Podcast: Why solar and batteries should be installed in every school
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Weather tracker: Hundreds evacuated during flash flooding in Balearic Islands
Gusts of up to 62mph made waters around islands unsafe; and Hurricane Ernesto passed over Bermuda
Hundreds of people were evacuated as flash flooding struck homes and holiday lets in the Balearic Islands last week, with many parts receiving about 100mm of rain within 24 hours.
Heavy downpours and severe thunderstorms hit the islands on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing hail and strong winds. The local authorities told people not to leave their homes on Wednesday, when the weather was at its worst. The town of Sóller, on Mallorca, received the highest 24-hour total of 114mm, but 68mm of this fell within just one hour, with 19mm falling in 10 minutes.
Continue reading...New Zealand’s biggest solar farm secures finance to go ahead at Christchurch Airport
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“Gas Trojan horse:” Coalition nuclear push slammed as fossil wedge aimed at renewables
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‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
While tourists flock to the Italian island in greater numbers, a water crisis is intensifying for its rural population
For the first time in four generations of his family’s farming history, Vito Amantia’s threshers have lain silent this year. The 650,000kg of wheat that his farm would usually produce in a year has been lost, parched and withered under the scorching sun and relentless drought.
“A seasoned farmer doesn’t need to check the weather forecast to understand what the weather will be like,” says Amantia, 68, who farms on the Catania plain in eastern Sicily. “Already last January, I knew it would be a disastrous year. The wheat seedlings that normally reached 80cm stopped at 5cm. Then they dried up.”
Continue reading...BNEF says $2.4 trillion needed for Australia’s net zero target, but window to safe climate closing fast
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CEFC provides another $160m to support lower cost loans for rooftop PV, batteries and efficiency
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