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EU Green Deal and competitiveness go hand-in-hand, Commission boss von der Leyen says in candidate debate

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 07:01
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sought to frame climate action and economic competitiveness as inextricably linked, in a debate on Monday with rival candidates for the EU executive body's next leader.
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It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists – and stop doing things the hard way

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-30 06:04
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward. Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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More than 90% of marine animals caught in NSW shark nets over summer were non-target species

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 04:00

Exclusive: New documents reveal NSW government division over controversial program as data reveals death toll

More than 90% of marine animals caught in shark nets off New South Wales beaches over the summer were non-target species, with new documents revealing division within the government over the controversial program.

More than half of the 208 non-target species – such as turtles, dolphins and smaller sharks – that were caught in the nets over the past eight months were killed, data obtained by conservationists show.

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Voluntary carbon standard publishes revisions after being denied full eligibility for CORSIA

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 03:44
Gold Standard has published clarifications and procedural revisions to boost its chances of supplying voluntary carbon credits for Phase 1 of CORSIA, the UN international aviation offsetting scheme. 
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VCM Report: Rumble in Rimba Raya distracts voluntary carbon market at time of reasonable liquidity, renewed buying interest

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 02:48
Grim news about the Rimba Raya REDD project last week, as well as signs that corporates are focusing on cheap voluntary carbon credits, undermined a more upbeat tone for the market, fuelled by decent liquidity and stronger buying interest.
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Malawi, battling extreme poverty and debt, turns to carbon markets to secure forex

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 02:43
One of the world’s poorest, most indebted, and most climate-vulnerable countries is turning to carbon markets to secure foreign exchange, as countries prepare to debate a new climate finance target amid crushing debt burdens at the COP29 UN climate conference this autumn.
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Global business association highlights “severe” challenges with EU CBAM

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:42
The world’s largest business association has written to the European Commission’s director general for taxation and customs union to call attention to the “severe” challenges companies have faced in complying with the first reporting period of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
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UK corporate decarbonisation slows by one-third in 2023, jeopardising net zero goals -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:37
The rate of decarbonisation across UK businesses decelerated significantly last year, posing a potential setback to achieving net zero goals, finds a new report.
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EU steel association revises down 2024 outlook on sluggish demand

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:33
EU steel association Eurofer has lowered its 2024 consumption forecast for the 27-nation bloc, citing worsening geopolitical tensions, growing economic uncertainty, high energy prices, inflation, and interest rates as factors that are adversely affecting demand.
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EU Commission calls out two member states for insufficient climate plans

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:15
The European Commission has called on two EU states to raise their climate ambitions in line with the agreed targets for 2030, in an assessment of the draft updated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) published on Friday.
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G7 nations agree to phase out domestic coal by 2035

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 00:27
Ministers from the G7 nations agreed on Monday to shut down coal plants by 2035, British Minister for Renewable and Nuclear Energy Andrew Bowie said following a meeting in Italy.
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Scottish govt’s collapse over scrapped climate targets represents warning for policymakers

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 00:20
The Scottish government's collapse on the heels of a shelved emission target highlights the need for policymakers to back their targets with concrete action in the near term - or risk losing public backing both from supporters and opponents of climate action, according to analysts.
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Countries failed to report on half of commitments under pre-2020 biodiversity targets

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-29 22:41
Nearly half of countries' policy pledges for nature made in the National Biodiversity Strategies and Actions Plans (NBSAPs) before 2020 were not supported by evidence of actions taken by governments, a paper has revealed, sounding the alarm over the reporting gaps ahead of this year's COP16 UN biodiversity summit.
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UN-backed alliance grapples with assessing integrity of the nascent biodiversity credit market

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-29 22:00
The Biodiversity Credits Alliance (BCA) on Monday released an issue paper delineating the process of developing a review mechanism for the emerging biodiversity credit market in a bid to quell concerns over nature risks related to credited projects.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-29 21:41
European carbon prices slumped on Monday morning in line with weakening energy markets, as warmer weather and a predicted rise in renewable power generation raised the prospect of reduced demand for thermal ouput.
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Taxing fossil fuels in advanced economies could raise $720 bln by 2030 for climate adaptation

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-29 21:29
Taxing the domestic extraction of coal, oil, and gas in the world's richest economies could raise as much as $720 billion by 2030 to help with climate adaptation in vulnerable nations, by way of the Loss and Damage Fund, finds a report backed by dozens of climate organisations.
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Countries consider pact to reduce plastic production by 40% in 15 years

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-04-29 21:27

Motion sets out worldwide target in alignment with Paris agreement to limit global heating to 1.5C

Countries are for the first time considering restrictions on the global production of plastic – to reduce it by 40% in 15 years – in an attempt to protect human health and the environment.

As the world attempts to make a treaty to cut plastic waste at UN talks in Ottawa, Canada, two countries have put forward the first concrete proposal to limit production to reduce its harmful effects including the huge carbon emissions from producing it.

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‘Water everywhere’: Shropshire farmers race to salvage harvest after record rain

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-04-29 20:15

Some crops completely wiped out and dramatic falls in yields being predicted in county which reflects crisis in rest of UK

With his farm almost entirely surrounded by the banks of the River Severn in north Shropshire, Ed Tate is used to flooding on his land – but this year, the sheer level of rainfall is the worst he’s ever seen.

He points to a field where about 20% of wheat crops have failed as they have been covered with rainwater that has pooled in muddy puddles, in areas which would usually be a sea of green by now.

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PFAS increase likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, study shows

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-04-29 20:00

In a first, researchers were able to compare records of people who drank polluted water in Veneto, Italy, with neighbors who did not

For the first time, researchers have formally shown that exposure to toxic PFAS increases the likelihood of death by cardiovascular disease, adding a new level of concern to the controversial chemicals’ wide use.

The findings are especially significant because proving an association with death by chemical exposure is difficult, but researchers were able to establish it by reviewing death records from northern Italy’s Veneto region, where many residents for decades drank water highly contaminated with PFAS, also called “forever chemicals”.

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