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VCM Report: Split between old and new voluntary carbon market emerges to start year
Scientists and climate groups call on the EU to separate 2040 climate targets
France puts forward bill to favour nuclear over renewables in nation’s low-carbon mix
Leading Article 6.2 buyers plan to proceed with and strike new bilateral deals
ANALYSIS: New int’l corporate Scope 3 emissions reporting laws highlight different regional aims for climate finance
Sustainability-linked loan issued to European utility for achieving SBTi-aligned target
Peregrine lander: Technical hitch threatens US Moon mission
Abu Dhabi’s ADNOC invests in UK-based carbon capture developer
Global heating will pass 1.5C threshold this year, top ex-Nasa scientist says
James Hansen says limit will be passed ‘for all practical purposes’ by May though other experts predict that will happen in 2030s
The internationally agreed threshold to prevent the Earth from spiraling into a new superheated era will be “passed for all practical purposes” during 2024, the man known as the godfather of climate science has warned.
James Hansen, the former Nasa scientist credited for alerting the world to the dangers of climate change in the 1980s, said that global heating caused by the burning of fossil fuels, amplified by the naturally reoccurring El Niño climatic event, will by May push temperatures to as much as 1.7C (3F) above the average experienced before industrialization.
Continue reading...Factchecked: the UK government’s claims about North Sea oil and gas
Rishi Sunak says the policy shift towards fossil fuels will lower bills and is backed by independent advisers. Is he right?
The UK government is about to bring through legislation for an annual licensing programme for oil and gas in the North Sea.
To justify this shift in policy towards fossil fuels, ministers have made a number of claims about the impact on climate breakdown and UK bills, as well as whether it is in line with recommendations from its independent climate advisers.
Continue reading...ART programme accepts Ghana REDD+ documents for 2017-21 carbon credits
UK intermediary signs offtake agreement for millions of Kenyan blue carbon credits
A cockatoo: they have so much fun because they are so clever | Helen Sullivan
They know how to get fed by people – like babies, you can’t ignore their squawks
In Sydney, sulphur-crested cockatoos play when they fly, ducking under power lines and soaring up again, squawking, charging through gaps in trees, landing only to hang upside down, as though they are mocking the bats. Cockatoos know how to have as much fun as it is possible to have while flying (a lot).
In a painting by William Patrick Roberts of a mother and her children looking at parrots in a shop, the macaws and the black cockatoo perch majestically; at the bottom of the painting a cockatoo fools around on a pole, looking right at you.
Helen Sullivan is a Guardian journalist.
Do you have an animal, insect or other subject you feel is worthy of appearing in this very serious column? Email helen.sullivan@theguardian.com
Continue reading...Australian solar glass pioneer signs partner for first commercial rollout in home market
ClearVue Technologies has made a key breakthrough in its home market, signing up a partner for its first commercial rollout on Australia's east coast.
The post Australian solar glass pioneer signs partner for first commercial rollout in home market appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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Switzerland, Thailand conclude first transaction of Article 6 carbon units for Paris Agreement compliance
COP29 host set for huge emissions increase from gas production investment
Where has all the honey gone? Scientists point to factors in declining yields
Research has found that several factors have hampered bees’ ability to create honey over the past decade
It’s a question that has bedeviled beekeepers across the US in recent years: where has all the honey gone? Scientists now say they have some answers as to why yields of honey have declined, pointing to environmental degradation that is affecting all sorts of bees, and insects more generally.
The amount of honey produced by honeybee colonies in the US has dropped by around half a pound, on average, per colony in the past decade, US government data shows, even as the number of managed colonies increased slightly.
Continue reading...Why do middle-aged people love birds so much? | Emma Beddington
I have become obsessed from afar with Flaco, an owl who fled a zoo in New York nearly a year ago. Over Christmas, I could no longer resist the urge to track him down
I often wonder why birds speak so universally to the sagging middle-aged soul that it has become a comic trope – the vertiginously swift passage from: “Is that a robin?” to: “There’s a lesser yellowleg two hours’ drive away, start the car.”
Is it the freedom they represent? No cholesterol, no mortgage, no self-assessment tax deadline to worry about? Or a sense of wonder in the everyday miracle of their existence, induced by an awareness of mortality? Whatever it is, I am in deep: disposable income frittered on fat balls; constantly snooping on feathery goings-on in the garden; home decor reminiscent of the Portlandia “put a bird on it” sketch.
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