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Fintech startup debuts debt financing tool for voluntary carbon project developers 

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 21:50
A fintech company has introduced a tool that enables carbon project developers to simulate the effects of different debt scenarios on their cash flow, the company announced.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 21:20
EU carbon allowance prices erased early gains and were slightly down on the day after Wednesday's morning session as weekly positioning data showed investment funds further reducing their bearish bets and a rise in hedging related to coal-fired power generation.
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EU countries fall short of addressing unsustainable fishing, EEA warns

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 21:01
EU member states are largely failing to promote sustainable fisheries and address marine biodiversity loss, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has warned.
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Harris administration would rein in toxic PFAS chemicals, advocates say

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-28 21:00

Records of Kamala Harris and running mate Tim Walz instill hope that progress under Biden could be extended

Public health advocates are optimistic that a Kamala Harris win in the November presidential election in the US would lead to further regulation of PFAS toxic “forever chemicals”, on which the Biden administration has already taken unprecedented regulatory action.

In part that is based on past actions. Last year, Harris’s running mate, the Minnesota governor, Tim Walz, signed bold legislation prohibiting the use of toxic PFAS across a range of common consumer goods from menstrual products to food packaging – a measure that is considered by public health advocates to be among the “strongest bans in the world”.

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IBAT releases guidelines to help companies align with TNFD, GRI

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 20:33
The Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) Alliance has released guidelines to support companies in corporate disclosures that are aligned with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) recommendations and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standard.
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Japanese agricultural lender backs biochar industry consortium

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 20:13
A major agricultural lender in Japan has decided to support an industry consortium that aims to utilise carbon credits created from biochar projects.
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China’s Tianjin to add more companies under local ETS

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 19:50
The Tianjin municipal government is seeking to expand the coverage of companies regulated under the local emissions trading scheme (ETS).
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Australian miner says committed to ‘real zero’ by 2030, shuns offsets

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 19:42
Fortescue, one of Australia’s iron ore giants, used Wednesday’s full year financial results presentation to underline its plans to hit zero emissions for Scopes 1 and 2 by the end of this decade despite its diesel-heavy carbon footprint.
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Major Asian nations must abandon LNG to decarbonise shipping sector -report

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 19:40
Countries including China, Japan, and South Korea must abandon the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a bridge fuel in order to fully decarbonise their shipping sector, a report released Wednesday said.
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Conservationists warn of unauthorised releases of beavers into English rivers

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-28 18:40

‘Beaver bombing’ increasing because of failure by successive governments to approve releases, say experts

“Beaver bombing”, covertly releasing beavers into the countryside, is increasing in England because successive governments have not fulfilled promises to permit some planned wild releases, conservationists are warning.

Beavers now live freely on river systems across swaths of southern England, and conservationists are calling on Labour to allow official releases of free-living beavers and produce a national strategy to maximise the biodiversity and flood alleviation benefits delivered by the industrious mammals.

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Brazilian voluntary carbon certifier opens public call for verification bodies

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 18:10
A Brazil-based voluntary carbon standard has opened a public call for the registration of validation/verification bodies (VVBs) interested in participating in its certification programmes.
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Australian supermarket giant commits to SBTi deforestation targets

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-08-28 18:05
Australian supermarket giant Woolworths Group will stop selling beef and other commodities linked to deforestation by the end of next year, in accordance with Science-based Targets Initiative (SBTi) guidance, it said on Wednesday.
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SpaceX delays first private spacewalk mission

BBC - Wed, 2024-08-28 17:22
Elon Musk's company said it would be delayed "due to unfavourable weather forecasted" in the capsule's splashdown areas.
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Dear ministers, I’m a climate crisis campaigner: nationalise me right now | George Monbiot

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-28 15:00

Why have politicians outsourced the most important issue of our time to private agencies and individuals? We can’t do it all - this way lies disaster

There are several services and assets I would like to see nationalised. But at the top of my list is neither water, nor trains, nor development land, much as I’d like to see them brought under national or local public ownership. Above all, I want to see the nationalisation of my own business: environmental persuasion. I love my job. But I’m not very good at it. None of us is.

We face the greatest predicament humankind has confronted: the erosion and possible collapse of our life-support systems. Its speed and scale have taken even scientists by surprise. The potential impacts are greater than any recent pandemic, or any war we have suffered. Yet the effort to persuade people of the need for action has been left almost entirely to either the private or voluntary sectors. And it simply does not work.

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Citizen scientists can help save Australia’s threatened species if we give them more direction

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-08-28 14:50
New research examines how citizen science data contributes to decisions by governments and conservation organisations about which species are at risk of extinction, and how they can be conserved. Erin Roger, Sector Lead, Atlas of Living Australia, CSIRO Jasmin G Packer, Research Fellow in Wildlife Conservation, University of Adelaide Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney Rachael Gallagher, Associate Professor, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Thomas Mesaglio, PhD candidate, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Let’s be like Paris and ban pesticides in cities, say UK campaigners

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-08-28 14:00

More than 150 councillors join 15,000 members of the public calling for urban areas to be free of the chemicals

The UK should copy Paris and ban pesticides in urban areas, campaigners and local councils have said.

Drawing attention to how the capital city of France still looked pristine while hosting the Olympics, the Pesticide Action Network (PAN) has said the same can be true of UK towns and cities.

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