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UK group flags seven solutions to stalled private demand for natural flood management

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 10:21
Seven solutions could unlock private demand for UK natural flood management projects, boosting the market for such initiatives should the government adopt them, a Green Finance Institute (GFI) expert group has said.
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Extreme heat can double stillbirth risk - study

BBC - Thu, 2024-03-21 10:16
Women in India are found to be twice as likely to lose babies if they are working in hot conditions.
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English estate partners with climate tech firm to improve reforestation rates

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 10:01
An English estate is partnering with a climate tech firm to use innovative technologies like vertical farming and micro-propagation of genetically relevant plant stock to improve the survival rate of voluntary carbon credit-generating reforestation projects.
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Asian steelmakers seek to weaken EU’s CBAM, lobbying study finds

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 08:00
Japanese and Korean steel industries appear to be actively lobbying the EU and other institutions to weaken the carbon border adjustment mechanism’s ambition, according to analysis by a think-tank.
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A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:38

Established 24 years ago, the Carrifran Wildwood has been credited with inspiring the current surge of rewilding projects across the UK and beyond

About 6,000 years ago, most of southern Scotland was covered by broadleaf woodland, interspersed with patches of rich scrub, heath and bog. In stark contrast, the landscape today is dominated by close-cropped, severely nature-depleted hills, punctuated by sharp-edged blocks of non-native spruce plantation.

Now, thanks to the Carrifran Wildwood, one of the UK’s first community-led rewilding projects, patches of habitat resembling Scotland’s primeval forest are staging a comeback.

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LEAK: Global carbon price for shipping still on the table at IMO meeting

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:21
The UN’s international shipping body has drawn up a legal framework for decarbonisation measures which includes a carbon pricing mechanism, according to a draft text seen by Carbon Pulse on Thursday, despite fears by some delegates that this option could still be removed.
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US market watchdog to soon finalise voluntary carbon credit trading guidelines

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:08
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is targetting this summer for a final version of its voluntary carbon guidelines, encouraging the public to report instances of fraud and manipulation as part of the agency’s efforts to support market credibility.
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‘How long before climate change will destroy the Earth?’: research reveals what Australian kids want to know about our warming world

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:04
The result shows climate change education in schools must become more holistic and empowering, and children should be allowed to shape the future they will inherit. Chloe Lucas, Lecturer and Research Fellow, School of Geography, Planning, and Spatial Sciences. Coordinator, Education for Sustainability Tasmania, University of Tasmania Charlotte Earl-Jones, PhD Candidate, University of Tasmania Gabi Mocatta, Research Fellow in Climate Change Communication, Climate Futures Program, University of Tasmania, and Lecturer in Communication, Deakin University Gretta Pecl, Professor, at IMAS and Director of the Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania Kim Beasy, Senior Lecturer in Curriculum and Pedagogy, University of Tasmania Rachel Kelly, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Future Ocean and Coastal Infrastructures (FOCI) Consortium, Memorial University, Canada, and Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Tasmania’s tall eucalypt forests will be wiped out by heatwaves unless we step in to help them

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:03
Our tallest trees are world champions when it comes to capturing and storing carbon, but they don’t like the heat. Climate change will trigger mass tree deaths in Tasmania. Here’s what can be done. Tim Wardlaw, Research Associate, University of Tasmania Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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We need faster, better ways to monitor NZ’s declining river health – using environmental DNA can help

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:03
Monitoring methods based on environmental DNA are faster, more comprehensive and cheaper than traditional ecological surveys. They help fill gaps in New Zealand’s data on river health. Michael Bunce, Honarary Professor in Environmental Genomics, University of Otago Simon Jarman, Professor of Environmental Genomics, Curtin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Poland's 'Heart of the Garden' named tree of 2024

BBC - Thu, 2024-03-21 05:00
A monumental Polish beech has been crowned European Tree of the Year 2024.
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California, Quebec agree to explore carbon market linkage with Washington state

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 04:40
WCI partners California and Quebec on Wednesday confirmed their interest in potentially extending their carbon market alliance to Washington, despite the voter-led ballot initiative that could upend the Evergreen State's cap-and-invest scheme.
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FEATURE: EU CBAM importers risk having to pay large penalties due to suppliers denying data access

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 04:06
EU importers of goods that fall under the bloc's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) may face hefty penalties this year due to international suppliers refusing to provide them with data on their embedded emissions, which importers need to comply with the new mechanism, experts have told Carbon Pulse.
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Scientists find skull of enormous ancient dolphin in Amazon

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-03-21 04:00

Fossil of giant river dolphin found in Peru, whose closest living relation is in South Asia, gives clues to future extinction threats

Scientists have discovered the fossilised skull of a giant river dolphin, from a species thought to have fled the ocean and sought refuge in Peru’s Amazonian rivers 16m years ago. The extinct species would have measured up to 3.5 metres long, making it the largest river dolphin ever found.

The discovery of this new species, Pebanista yacuruna, highlights the looming risks to the world’s remaining river dolphins, all of which face similar extinction threats in the next 20 to 40 years, according to the lead author of new research published in Science Advances today. Aldo Benites-Palomino said it belonged to the Platanistoidea family of dolphins commonly found in oceans between 24m and 16m years ago.

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“No peace” for EU nature law as environment ministers meet next week

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 03:49
Further struggles await a law aiming to enshrine the target to restore at least 20% of the EU land and sea areas by 2030, with some of the bloc's 27 environmental ministers announcing their intention to halt the process next week.
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Scotland lacks credible plan to meet ambitious 2030 climate goal, warn govt advisors

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-03-21 03:11
Scotland’s flagship 2030 climate goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 75% compared to 1990 is no longer credible, the independent Committee on Climate Change (CCC) warned on Wednesday.
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