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Brazil led the way, now the UK should get behind the assault on hunger and poverty | Kevin Watkins

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-01 18:00

At its recent summit, Lula gave the G20 a chance to show its commitment to real change – and Britain can take the lead

Last week the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, shattered the mould of G20 meetings. In using the annual summit as a launchpad for a new effort to tackle hunger and extreme poverty, he has provided the world with a chance – a last chance – to breathe new life into a moribund sustainable development goal (SDG) agenda. He has handed the G20 a cause that could halt its slide into irrelevance.

For the UK, the creation of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty represents an opportunity to restore a deeply tarnished reputation on international development.

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Hong Kong exchange adds Gold Standard credits to voluntary carbon marketplace

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-01 17:34
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) has listed Gold Standard's Verified Emission Reductions (GS-VERs) on its voluntary marketplace Core Climate, it announced Thursday.
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Cornish conservation charity launches major ‘Tor to Shore’ rewilding project

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-01 14:00

Cornwall Wildlife Trust initiative aims to benefit creatures from upland marsh fritillaries to seahorses in St Austell Bay

A Cornish conservation charity has launched an ambitious rewilding project intended to benefit creatures from marsh fritillary butterflies living high on the moor to long-snouted seahorses in seagrass in a bay five miles away.

The Tor to Shore project will stretch from Helman Tor, a reserve topped with a granite boulder summit near Bodmin, to St Austell Bay via the tumbling River Par, its idea to improve a landscape at scale.

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Australian government ‘deeply disappointed’ by Japan’s decision to expand commercial whaling target list

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-01 12:57

Japanese government confirms it will allow whalers to catch and kill up to 59 fin whales, a species conservationists consider vulnerable

The Australian government is “deeply disappointed” by Japan’s decision to add the world’s second-largest whale species to the list of species its commercial whale hunters will target.

Tanya Plibersek, the environment minister, attacked Japan’s decision to hunt fin whales – the world’s second-longest whale and considered vulnerable.

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China environment ministry approves 2023-24 permit allocation plan

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-01 11:50
China's environment ministry on Wednesday evening announced it had approved, in principle, a draft allocation plan that will determine the supply-demand dynamics in the national emissions market over the 2023-24 period.
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Signs of life on Sycamore Gap stump

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-01 11:10
Eight new shoots have been discovered emerging from the base of the felled tree on Hadrian's Wall.
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Restoring logged forests doesn’t mean locking them up as ‘wilderness’ – it means actively managing them

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-08-01 11:00
Efforts by First Nations groups to thin dense forest regrowth have come under fire in Victoria. The solution isn’t to restore “wilderness” – it’s to manage Country. Jack Pascoe, Research fellow in ecology and land management, The University of Melbourne Patrick Baker, ARC Future Fellow and Professor of Silviculture and Forest Ecology, The University of Melbourne Tom Fairman, Future Fire Risk Analyst, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Royal count finds swans hit by air guns

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-01 10:49
Air-gun and catapult attacks have been blamed for another decline in swans on the River Thames.
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US senators call for restriction on upcoming biofuels tax credit eligibility

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-01 10:31
A bipartisan group of US senators on Tuesday urged President Joe Biden’s administration to limit an upcoming biofuels tax credit to those produced from domestic feedstocks.
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RD credit generation to push the swell of Canada clean fuels bank to 10.4 mln credits by 2030, analysts say

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-01 10:27
Renewable diesel (RD) will comprise a majority of credit generation in Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulation (CFR) market by 2030, analysts told a webinar Wednesday, as an industry association speaker pointed to factors that could impact the actualisation of that trajectory.
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US Democratic lawmaker introduces bill for national GHG pollution allowance trading system

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-01 10:16
A Democratic member of the US House of Representatives introduced Tuesday legislation that would set an enforceable, economy-wide cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, requiring emitters to purchase allowances under a declining cap from auctions conducted by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Dutton sings O Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power? | Temperature Check

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-01 10:00

Opposition leader’s argument is puzzling given Canadian provinces dominated by renewables pay less for electricity

There’s a community in Ontario called Dutton which, right now, seems appropriate given the number of times Peter Dutton has name-checked the Canadian province over the last 12 months.

In dozens of media interviews and speeches, Dutton (the opposition leader, not the township) has said Ontarians are getting cheap electricity because of their 20 nuclear reactors.

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Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-01 09:41
Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.
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Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope

BBC - Thu, 2024-08-01 09:41
Rory Golden, who was on the Titan sub's support ship when it went missing, recounts the experience.
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