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VCM Report: Liquidity ticking higher, but voluntary carbon prices remain in the doldrums

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-24 00:58
Optimism continued to creep back into the voluntary sector last week, although most avoidance prices remained depressed as the market polarised between the cheap and the good quality.
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Researchers put forward blueprint for equitable benefit-sharing from carbon projects

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-24 00:20
Research published Monday outlined how carbon projects can ensure transparent compensation for Indigenous Peoples (IPs) and local communities (LCs) in a bid to move past recent criticism of the voluntary sector.
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ADB grants $500 mln loan to Indonesia for energy transition

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-24 00:12
The Asian Development Bank has approved a $500 million policy-based loan to help Indonesia accelerate its energy transition and achieve its net zero targets.
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Frontier inks fresh deal worth millions for river-based carbon removal

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 23:57
Carbon removal buyers club Frontier has agreed a deal worth over $25 million for credits linked to river de-acidification from a Canadian firm.
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Carbon project developer to deploy MRV solution across 12 ARR projects in the Americas and the Pacific

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 23:22
A project developer for Indigenous-led conservation projects will partner with an atmospheric-based digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (aMRV) solution provider to map 1 million acres across 12 Afforestation, Reforestation, and Restoration (ARR) projects.
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Denmark challenges EU Commission on export of banned pesticides

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 23:18
The Danish government has stepped forward to ask the European Commission to alter a law that allows EU companies to export pesticides banned in the bloc.
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Pertamina moves to expand role in emerging CCS market

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 22:55
Indonesian state-owned oil company Pertamina on Monday announced two of its subsidiaries have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that over time will see the company enter the market for transport of liquid CO2 (LCO2).
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Boss of Titan sub firm said: 'No-one is dying under my watch'

BBC - Mon, 2024-09-23 22:51
A transcript reveals the OceanGate chief in a heated exchange, years before he and four others died when the submersible imploded.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 22:25
European carbon prices strengthened on Monday as they built on Friday's recovery, taking cues once again from a stronger TTF gas market, though analysts continued to point to technical indicators that could see prices break to the downside.
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California-based VC firm closes $10-mln fund to support climate-tech startups

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 22:21
A California-based venture capital firm focusing on climate technology has announced the closure of a $10-million decarbonisation fund that supports startups.
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Six water firms in England ‘overcharged customers by up to £1.5bn’

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-23 22:05

Firms underreported true scale of sewage pollution for 10 years, which allowed them to set higher bills, tribunal told

Six water companies overcharged customers between £800m and £1.5bn by “significantly or systematically” underreporting the true scale of their sewage pollution of rivers and waterways, a tribunal has heard.

In the first environmental competition class action against water companies in England, lawyers argued that the privatised firms had abused their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging from their assets over the past 10 years.

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Temporary ‘off-ramps’ could assist countries on decarbonisation journey -academics

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 21:48
Temporary mitigation “off-ramps" could help countries manage the significant challenges associated with the rapid decarbonisation experts say is needed to meet global net zero emissions targets.
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Waste giant says emissions cuts on track for 1.5C-aligned climate target

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 21:32
One of Australia’s largest waste and landfill gas producers is on track to meet climate targets that it says fully align with a Paris 1.5C scenario.
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Create ‘positive tipping points’ with climate mandates, governments urged

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-23 20:26

Requiring key sectors to switch to clean energy sources could trigger benevolent cascades, report claims

In the terminology of the climate and ecological crises the phrase “tipping point” is loaded with dreadful implications.

It evokes a climate breakdown supercharged by the mass escape of methane locked in Siberian permafrost, or the great currents of the oceans smothered by freshwater melting from the Greenland ice sheet, or the Amazon turning from great rainforest to parched savannah after the felling of one too many trees.

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Nature SDGs urgently need addressing, report says

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 20:24
International efforts to meet the UN’s nature-focused Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on life below water and on land are falling far short of their 2030 targets, according to a report released on Monday.
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Swiss voters reject plan to boost biodiversity conservation

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 19:58
Voters in Switzerland rejected on Sunday a proposal to enhance nature protection in the country, with opponents claiming the reform would be too costly and jeopardise business development.
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New French minister pledges to continue fight for energy sovereignty

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 19:05
Antoine Armand, the new French economy and finance minister, pledged to continue fighting for the country’s energy sovereignty, saying “the major challenge of our century is the climate emergency”, as EU acquaintance Agnes Pannier-Runacher makes a comeback as the country’s climate and energy minister.
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Taiwan sports good blue carbon potential, but more local datasets required, study says

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 18:42
Marine-based carbon sinks have a great potential to contribute to Taiwan's climate targets, though more action is needed to establish carbon removal datasets, a study has found.
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LATAM Roundup: Ecuador, Bolivia open to carbon markets as business grows in Brazil

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 18:00
Ecuador voted overwhelmingly to legalise carbon markets, Bolivia’s president prepared to accept – and centralise – carbon trading, and Brazil welcomed a slew of high-profile investments in the week ending Sep. 22.
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Safeguard Mechanism baselines likely to tighten in upcoming review, bank predicts

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-23 17:28
The legislated review for Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism will likely see the scheme’s baselines tighten to meet more ambitious emissions reduction targets, which would ultimately be bullish for carbon credit prices, according to a bank’s analysis.
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