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California water purifier plant with carbon removal to start up in 2026

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-06-22 00:19
A California-based water purifier facility with direct air capture (DAC) carbon removal is poised to begin operations in 2026, the firm announced.
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Heatwave continues to roast 65m people in US midwest and north-east

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 23:28

Daily heat records were broken in the early season heatwave, yet relief in sight as cooler weather forecast

About 65 million people were under heat alerts in the north-eastern and midwest states on Friday, as an early season heatwave in the US continued to roast the region.

Record temperatures were set in some areas, with heat indexes that combine temperature and humidity hitting 100F and 110F. Calendar-day highs were broken across Maine, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania.

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Protein bars made by No Cow contain lead and toxic PFAS, lawsuit alleges

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 23:00

Environmental Research Center, a consumer protection non-profit, says it found ‘forever chemicals’ in eight flavors

A wide range of No Cow protein bars are contaminated with lead and toxic “forever chemicals”, recent filings with the California department of justice charges.

The filings, made by the Environmental Research Center (ERC), a San Diego-based consumer protection non-profit, states that its testing found PFOA, a dangerous PFAS compound, and lead in eight flavors of No Cow bars.

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INTERVIEW: Carbon farming to make EU debut with Ireland launching first framework

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 22:13
This summer, Ireland will launch its carbon farming framework, the first of its kind to be proposed for adoption in a European country, in collaboration with EIT Climate-KIC, a climate innovation initiative co-funded by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 21:15
After a steady opening on Friday, EU carbon prices drifted over the rest of the morning in sympathy with weakening natural gas prices, reinforcing the view that EUAs are resuming their correlation to TTF prices, while UK Allowances provided the only splash of green on trading screens as the British market reacted to Thursday's steep fall.
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The gardener who took a Canadian city to court for the right to not mow his lawn

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 21:12

Missisauga officials have twice forcibly cut Wolf Ruck’s grass and billed him, after he decided to rewild his garden

Most mornings, Wolf Ruck walks the mown paths in his yard in Mississauga, Ontario, watching for insects landing on the goldenrod, birds feeding on native seed heads, and chipmunk kits playing in the tall grass.

The septuagenarian artist, film-maker and former Olympic canoeist began rewilding his garden with native plants three years ago, as part of a growing movement across Canada towards replacing water-thirsty lawns with “naturalised gardens”.

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International carbon credit developers to launch new lobby group in Brussels

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 21:09
Multiple international carbon project developers are set to come together to launch a Brussels-based lobby group to protect and promote the use of voluntary credit use in climate mitigation, according to the EU’s transparency register.
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CN Markets: CEA price drops to three-month low amid lingering regulatory uncertainty

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 20:59
China’s national emissions trading scheme (ETS) saw its spot price over the past week fall to a three-month low, as the lack of policy updates continues to weigh on market sentiment.
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NGOs call for cancelling ‘disastrous’ oil permit in Rep. of Congo’s most biodiverse protected area

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 20:28
Human rights activists in the Republic of Congo (RoC) and other NGOs have called for the revocation of an oil exploration permit in Conkouati-Douli National Park, saying it will gravely threaten the most biodiverse protected area in the country.
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Uzbekistan becomes first country to receive World Bank payment for sale of policy-based carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 20:03
Uzbekistan has become the first country to receive a payment of $7.5 million from the World Bank for the sale of carbon credits from policy reforms that have slashed its carbon emissions by half a million tonnes.
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GEF Council gives green light to $730-mln spending as pressure mounts on GBF Fund to deliver

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 19:46
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) Council has approved the spending of $736.4 million on hastening efforts to tackle biodiversity loss, climate change, and chemicals and waste pollution, as its CEO urged rich countries to ramp up contributions to the Global Biodiversity Framework Fund (GBFF).
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South Korea to deepen Paris partnership with Vietnam

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 19:37
South Korea and Vietnam have decided to strengthen their cooperation on climate change, with the development of pilot Article 6 projects at the top of the agenda. 
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Climate engineering off US coast could increase heatwaves in Europe, study finds

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 19:37

Scientists call for regulation to stop regional use of marine cloud brightening having negative impact elsewhere

A geoengineering technique designed to reduce high temperatures in California could inadvertently intensify heatwaves in Europe, according to a study that models the unintended consequences of regional tinkering with a changing climate.

The paper shows that targeted interventions to lower temperature in one area for one season might bring temporary benefits to some populations, but this has to be set against potentially negative side-effects in other parts of the world and shifting degrees of effectiveness over time.

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EU inaugurates green innovation hub in Seville

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 19:34
The European Commission on Friday launched its brand new Innovation Centre for Industrial Transformation (INCITE) in Seville, aiming to accelerate the decarbonisation of energy-intensive industries to reach climate neutrality by mid-century.
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Climate activists bemoan scant progress on finance as Cop29 looms

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 19:18

UN says finding funds to tackle climate crisis is ‘a steep mountain to climb’, as talks end with little agreement

Finding the finance needed to stave off the worst impacts of the climate crisis will be “a very steep mountain to climb”, the UN has conceded, as two vital international conferences failed to produce the progress needed to generate funds for poor countries.

With less than five months to go before the Cop29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan in November, there is still no agreement on how to bridge the near-trillion dollar gap between what developing countries say is needed and the roughly $100bn a year of climate finance that flows today from public sources in the rich world to stricken developing nations.

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South Korea releases national biogas development strategy

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 18:20
South Korea has rolled out a national strategy for the development of the biogas sector, a move it says can help cut millions tonnes of CO2e emissions over the coming years.
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Experts, investors baulk at Australian opposition’s proposals on nuclear, capping renewables

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 18:06
Multiple experts and asset owners have raised a number of issues with the Australian opposition’s thinly-detailed nuclear energy proposal, while renewable energy developers urged stakeholders not be distracted by the idea.
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Australian ministers agree 2030 biodiversity targets, include OECMs in Nature Repair Market

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-21 18:00
Australian federal and state environment ministers on Friday agreed on an ambition to protect and conserve 30% of land and sea by 2030 and a number of other ambitions that the country will take to the biodiversity COP in Colombia later this year, while also agreeing to include Other Effective land-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in the Nature Repair Market.
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Millions of mosquitoes released in Hawaii to save rare bird from extinction

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 17:00

Conservationists hope insects carrying ‘birth control’ bacteria can save honeycreeper being wiped out by malaria

Millions of mosquitoes are being released from helicopters in Hawaii in a last-ditch attempt to save rare birds slipping into extinction.

The archipelago’s endemic, brightly coloured honeycreeper birds are dying of malaria carried by mosquitoes first introduced by European and American ships in the 1800s. Having evolved with no immunity to the disease, the birds can die after just a single bite.

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Week in wildlife – in pictures: bears’ dinner party, a Kentish wildcat kitten and racing marmots

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-21 17:00

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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