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Fallout from Woodside’s birthday bash shows Australia is far from united in climate fight | Temperature Check

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-15 01:00

WA newspaper throws tantrum and Tony Abbott blames ‘climate cult’ after prime minister misses fossil fuel company’s party

If we are looking for something to illustrate Australia’s inability to have any coherent and sustained response to the climate crisis over the past couple of decades, we can find it in the reaction to the fossil fuel giant Woodside’s 70th birthday dinner.

That reaction being a little bit of climate science denial, plus some political patronage and big servings of fossil fuel cheerleading barely disguised as journalism.

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Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-15 01:00
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.
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Famous Stonehenge stone came from Scotland not Wales

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-15 01:00
Stonehenge's famous Altar Stone came from Scotland not Wales as previously thought, new analysis shows.
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Verra implements new project fee for REDD voluntary carbon activities

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 00:25
Voluntary carbon standard Verra will implement a new fee for projects under its consolidated VM0048 REDD methodology, it announced Wednesday.
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Poland launches €5 bln plan to fund offshore wind farms 

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-15 00:01
Poland is starting a nearly €5 billion program funded by the European Union's recovery funds, to offer loans to developers of offshore wind farms in the Baltic Sea, the state assets ministry and national development bank BGK announced on Tuesday. 
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Banks failing to meet their own green commitments, finds analysis

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 23:49
Major banks are far off track in meeting their climate targets and pledges are often less ambitious than they seem at face value, according to analysis published Wednesday.
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Gas development will drive emissions rise in Australia’s Top End under all scenarios, says govt report

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 23:10
A government report, obtained by a reporter from Australia's national broadcaster, found the Northern Territory government believes the gas industry will drive up its emissions by 100% even under a conservative scenario.
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Brussels approves Dutch plan to pay livestock farmers to close down

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 23:05
The European Commission has approved a Dutch plan to provide €700 million of state aid to compensate farmers for voluntarily closing their livestock farming sites to help cut nitrogen emissions, it announced on Wednesday.
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AI-powered drone laser data aims to transform biodiversity measurements

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 22:45
Cambridge researchers are leveraging the capabilities of drones, lasers, and AI to try to transform the speed and accuracy of assessing biodiversity and carbon in forests.
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BeZero evaluates first DAC carbon project, assigns highest-ever rating 

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 22:25
Carbon ratings agency BeZero Carbon has this Tuesday issued its highest-ever rating for the first publicly evaluated direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS) project. 
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Trump’s Project 2025 promises billions of tonnes more carbon pollution – study

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 22:00

Experts say climate policies contained within rightwing manifesto would wreck US climate targets and cost jobs

The impact of Donald Trump enacting the climate policies of the rightwing Project 2025 would result in billions of tonnes of extra carbon pollution, wrecking the US’s climate targets, as well as wiping out clean energy investments and more than a million jobs, a new analysis finds.

Should Trump retake the White House and pass the energy and environmental policies in the controversial Project 2025 document, the US’s planet-heating emissions will “significantly increase” by 2.7bn tonnes above the current trajectory by 2030, an amount comparable to the entire annual emissions of India, according to the report.

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India should include power sector in ETS, report says

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 21:37
India should include the power sector in its planned emissions trading scheme to make it more effective, as exempting it would leave 40% of national greenhouse gas emissions unregulated, according to a report released this week.
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Japan mulls biodiversity net gain scheme to offset river degradation

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 21:35
The Japanese government is considering establishing a biodiversity offsetting scheme similar to the biodiversity net gain (BNG) law in England to compensate for habitat degradation driven by flood control, chief researchers at the infrastructure ministry have told Carbon Pulse.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 21:21
European carbon prices were moderately firmer on Wednesday morning after a re-emergence in buying interest after Tuesday's decline, shrugging off a weaker natural gas market as weekly position data showed investment funds had cut their bearish bets to the lowest in two months.
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Nobel laureates denounce dropping of ‘fossil fuels’ from UN draft pact

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 21:21
A group of 77 former world leaders and Nobel laureates is calling out governments for dropping any mention of fossil fuels and a just transition from the 'Pact for the Future' in negotiation ahead of an upcoming UN summit in New York.
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Green gold: Russian mining company issued first voluntary carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 21:18
A Russian gold mining company has been issued almost 2.2 million voluntary credits by the country’s national carbon registry for emissions reductions linked to cleaner energy usage.
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SK Market: August auction undersubscribed ahead of compliance deadline, price growth potential seen limited

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 20:40
South Korea’s latest monthly CO2 permit auction was undersubscribed even with the annual compliance deadline rapidly approaching, with analysts expecting the permit price to remain at relatively low levels due to a lasting oversupply in the market.
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Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-14 20:01

Exclusive: In 2024, 19 national temperature records have been set as weather extremes grow more frequent, climate historian says

A record 19 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more frequent and climate breakdown intensifies.

An additional 130 monthly national temperature records have also been broken, along with tens of thousands of local highs registered at monitoring stations from the Arctic to the South Pacific, according to Maximiliano Herrera, who keeps an archive of extreme events.

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Academics launch independent standard for high-integrity biodiversity, carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 20:00
A group of academics have launched a community-focused standard for high-integrity carbon and biodiversity credits to address the growing demand for reliable markets, the team leader has told Carbon Pulse.
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Australia’s biggest bank puts emitters on notice: No transition plan, no money

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-14 19:56
A shareholder activist group known better for being the scourge of the oil and gas and high-emitting resources industry and those who fund their polluting work has welcomed new, tough transition plans from Australia’s leading bank.
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