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UAE asset management firm forms alliance to pursue JCM rice farming project in Indonesia

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 19:11
An Abu Dhabi-based asset management firm has teamed up with two international partners to promote a sustainable rice farming method and generate carbon credits deemed eligible under Japan's bilateral framework in Indonesia, it announced Wednesday.
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Biodiversity credits to receive significant portion of private finance, expert says

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 18:37
A substantial share of private finance will flow towards biodiversity credits as investors are confident demand for them will surge in coming years, a think tank researcher has said.
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Korean financial firm to provide deposit services for upcoming ETS consignment trading platform

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 18:26
A Korean financial institution is planning to provide deposit services for a planned consignment carbon trading platform that will likely be added to the country's national emissions trading scheme next year, local media reported.
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Thai consortium launches voluntary carbon trading platform for events

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 17:39
Five organisations in Thailand have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch a carbon trading platform for small- and medium enterprises (SMEs) in order to hold sustainable events, they announced Wednesday.
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Britain experiencing a beaver baby boom as kits spotted across the country

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 16:00

Kits emerge for after-dark dips in Northumberland, London, Kent and the Cairngorms after reintroduction drive

A beaver baby boom is under way across Britain this summer in places where the species had been extinct for centuries.

From Ealing in London to the Cairngorms in Scotland, and from Canterbury in Kent to the Wallington Estate in Northumberland, new kits have emerged from their lodges for an after-dark dip in the water.

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Japanese power company expands carbon credit deal with trading house

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 15:41
One of Japan’s largest power retailers and generators has signed a long-term offtake agreement with a Singapore-based trading house for Australian carbon credits.
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Activists warn of ‘extreme anger’ if ministers fail to reform water regulator

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 15:00

Sources say government has dismissed some of the more ambitious ideas for fixing sewage crisis

Anti-sewage campaigners have warned of “extreme anger” if the Labour government does not radically reform the water regulator.

Sources at the Environment Agency (EA) and in the Labour party have told the Guardian that while Labour had spent time considering reforms of the EA and Ofwat in order to fix the sewage crisis, some stricter options that had been proposed were now off the table.

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Earth’s oldest, tiniest creatures are poised to be climate change winners – and the repercussions could be huge

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:37
The rise of ‘pyrokaryotes’ could reduce the availability of fish humans eat, and hamper the ocean’s ability to absorb carbon emissions. Ryan Heneghan, Lecturer in Environmental Modelling, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Police remove climate protesters from Parliament House in Canberra – video

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:34

Climate protesters were removed from Parliament House by police on Wednesday morning. In a statement, the protesters said they felt 'betrayed by the Albanese government’s abandonment of major reform to our environment laws earlier this year, following pressure from coal and gas companies'

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Major Korean automaker enters domestic voluntary carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 14:04
The automotive finance arm of a major carmaker in South Korea has created a business model that can generate carbon credits for electric vehicles by leveraging the parent group's resources.
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California ARB’s modified LCFS draft rules briefly send credit prices in a tizzy

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 12:01
ARB issued a 15-day notice late Monday for accepting public comments to modifications of proposed changes to California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), sending credit futures in the secondary market trading through a wide intraday range on Tuesday.
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PREVIEW: July 10 ARB workshop tempers WCI Q3 auction settlement expectations

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 11:04
Market participants expect the upcoming WCI auction on Wednesday to settle at the lowest level in more than a year and at a discount to front-month futures, while analysts forecast a broad range of estimates considering a mix of bearish market sentiment and opportunistic buying from speculators. 
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Despair as the sea slowly swallows a Kenyan beauty spot

BBC - Wed, 2024-08-14 10:55
Local authorities are seeking to build a seawall to prevent further intrusion of the ocean to the village.
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US DOE opens $54 mln funding opportunity for array of carbon management technologies

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 09:11
The US Department of Energy (DOE) opened Tuesday applications for $54.4 million in funding to support the development of technologies for the capture, transport, conversion, and storage of CO2.
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