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Ontario invests over C$9 mln into 14 forest biomass projects
Stakeholder coalition outlines blueprint to mobilise $25 bln+ in US funding for decarbonisation
Just 8% of carbon credits to get early pass for CCP label, most methodologies too contentious to fast-track
UK heatwave plan urgently needed to save lives, say MPs
Nature-based solutions such as parks and ponds are recommended – as is giving heatwaves names
The UK urgently needs a plan to prevent thousands of heatwave deaths a year as the climate continues to warm, a cross-party committee of MPs has warned.
More than 4,500 people died in heatwaves in 2022, the MPs’ report said, and this number could rise to 10,000 a year by 2050 without action. Heatwaves are “silent killers”, the MPs said, pushing up heart rate and blood pressure, with those over 65 and with existing health problems most at risk.
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INTERVIEW: SBTN delays first validation till mid-year, urges ambition amid broad interest from industry
EnergyAustralia takes $1.1 billion hit on retail unit as business model shifts
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Australia Market Roundup: More Hydrogen Hub funding announced, ACCU issuance up
Senior Climate Consultant, Nature-Based Solutions, UNEP – Morocco
EU risks missing 2030 emissions targets as national plans lack details -report
Carbon projects lack robust safeguards, market needs risk management tools -experts
Ministers’ nature policies ‘cover up’ environmental failings, wildlife groups say
Government plans for fishery closures are ‘window dressing’ in face of ‘appalling record’ on meeting targets, experts warn
Ministers are “window dressing” with nature policies announced to “cover up” the government’s failings on environmental targets, wildlife groups have said.
The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) found earlier this month that nature in England is at risk of falling into an “irreversible spiral of decline” because of the government’s failures to meet its legally binding targets on species abundance and water quality.
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British Columbia’s old growth forests at risk of logging with inaccurate provincial accounting -report
EU adopts harmonised rules for ETS free allocations, fails to amend cement benchmarks
US National Science Foundation awards up to $1.6 bln for energy, climate innovation
Renewable projects are getting built faster – but there’s even more need for speed
‘Holy grail’: researchers may have captured first image of newborn great white shark
California scientist and film-maker spot apparent pup – never before seen in the wild – in drone pictures
Researchers in California may have gotten the first ever look at a newborn great white shark, which they captured in drone images taken last summer.
The newborn animal has never before been spotted in the wild. But in July, the wildlife film-maker Carlos Gauna and Phillip Sternes, a biology doctoral student at the University of California, Riverside, glimpsed something unexpected in the waters near Santa Barbara on California’s central coast.
Continue reading...Rare swallowtail butterfly suffers worst summer since records began
Exclusive: one of Britain’s rarest butterflies, found only in Norfolk Broads, critically threatened by climate crisis
The swallowtail, one of Britain’s rarest butterflies and also the largest, has suffered its worst summer since records began.
The butterfly is confined to the Broads in East Anglia, where its caterpillar’s food plant is found, and is now breeding on just 16 sites.
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