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G20 countries turning backs on fossil fuel pledge, say campaigners

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-09-11 00:11

Promise to ‘transition away from fossil fuels’ made at Cop28 climate talks has been left out of draft resolutions

Campaigners have claimed some of the world’s largest economies are turning their backs on a pledge made last year to transition away from fossil fuels.

Ministers from the G20 group of developed and developing countries, including the US, UK, China and India, will meet in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday to discuss the global approach to the climate crisis.

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UK offshore oil and gas emissions slip, although intensity per barrel set to rise

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-09-11 00:08
The UK's offshore oil and gas industry cut its emissions by 4% in 2023 and by just over a quarter in the past five years, although the emissions intensity of every barrel is increasing as production declines, the country's regulator said on Tuesday.
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Australia hosting COP31 could transform climate action in the region, but will be expected to up its game, NGOs say

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-09-11 00:01
A group of Australian NGOs has urged the Australian government to secure its bid in hosting the UN COP31 talks in 2026 in partnership with the Pacific, describing it as a “nation-building” activity that could provide a slew of national and regional benefits.
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Verra lifts suspension of Southern Cardamom REDD+ project after 14-month investigation

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 23:39
Verra has lifted its suspension of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ project (SCRP) after a 14-month investigation found the huge avoided deforestation scheme in Cambodia conformed to its standards, dismissing allegations of human rights violations.
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Asset management firm funds major reforestation project in Malawi

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 23:28
An Abu Dhabi-based asset management firm announced Tuesday that it has signed a deal with a Malawi-based reforestation company to plant 6 million indigenous trees and prevent the deforestation of over 4 mln trees in the country.
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Marketplace partners with tech firm to boost transparency in carbon removal with MRV data

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 22:47
A London-based carbon removal (CDR) marketplace has partnered with a carbon tracking tech firm to integrate its measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) data to boost transparency in the market.
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Global Carbon Council consults on Article 6.2 eligibility standard

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 22:30
The Global Carbon Council (GCC) has opened a public consultation on regulatory documents devised for GCC 2.0 - the body’s new standard that will govern Article 6.2 eligibility of projects and their issuances.
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Land use sectors can do much better for EU climate goals, with the right policy push -study

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 22:01
Agricultural emissions in the EU could fall by nearly two-thirds by 2050, but policies - possibly including a dedicated emissions trading scheme - are needed to drive the necessary shift, according to research published on Tuesday. 
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We examined anti-protest laws across the west. Britain stood out, and not in a good way | Linda Lakhdhir

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-10 22:00

Under the Tories, non-violent climate protesters were jailed for up to five years – and there is little sign that Labour will change tack

  • Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International

In December 2023 when Stephen Gingell was sentenced to six months in prison for slow marching for half an hour on the Holloway Road in north London, the sentence was considered shocking. Unfortunately, it is far from the exception. In fact, my organisation, Climate Rights International, has spent the past eight months looking into restrictions on climate protests among western democracies and has found that the UK – mostly under the Conservatives – has introduced some of the harshest anti-protest legislation in recent years.

You may remember Morgan Trowland and Marcus Decker, who were sentenced to multi-year prison sentences in April 2023 for climbing the cables of the Queen Elizabeth II bridge to object to new oil, gas and coal projects. The three-year sentence imposed on Trowland was, at the time, the longest ever for a climate protest in the UK. But, it has since been surpassed. In July, in a case that made international headlines, five fossil-fuel protesters were sentenced to four- and five-year sentences after participating in a Zoom call about staging climate protests on the M25.

Linda Lakhdhir is the legal director of Climate Rights International

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Billionaire takes off for first ever private spacewalk

BBC - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:55
The mission is the first of three funded by payments processing business founder Jared Isaacman.
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Oil major plans to make green hydrogen from a converted German refinery

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:47
A major fossil fuel company has partnered with a professional services firm to repurpose a hydrocracking refinery in Germany into a base oil production unit and enable the production of renewable hydrogen, they announced on Tuesday.
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World’s first cross-border CO2 storage site opens for business in Denmark

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:39
The world’s first cross-border carbon capture and storage scheme (CCS) is now open for business in the Danish waters of the North Sea, laying the groundwork to store up to 8 million tonnes of CO2 a year in the basin from 2030.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:16
European carbon allowances weakened on Tuesday morning as natural gas prices slipped on diminishing concerns that US Gulf production might be impacted by an approaching tropical storm, while the looming September EUA options contract expiry was said to be starting to exert a pull on prices.
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Methane emissions continue to grow, threatening pledges and Paris commitments, report finds

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:11
Methane emissions have risen 20% in the past two decades, a global report released this week has found, and threatens the goals of the Global Methane Pledge, which aims to reduce methane emissions by 30% by 2030 over 2020 levels.
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French utility sees depressed EU carbon prices until end 2024

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:09
Healthy renewable and gas power supply in the EU is expected to mute demand for carbon allowances for the rest of the year, as the carbon market waits for updates from the new European Commission to help gauge its level of ambition, according to analysts at Engie. 
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Half a million oysters to be introduced to Humber estuary in restoration plan

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-10 21:00

European flat oyster is defined as ‘collapsed’ in UK but there are hopes it could return to coastal waters

A box marked “special delivery” arrived about midday at Spurn Discovery Centre, on a remote East Yorkshire peninsula in the Humber estuary.

It is unlikely the postal worker had any idea it contained 300,000 living oyster larvae – tiny pinprick-sized organisms destined to become part of a new oyster reef just off the English coast.

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Tech firm delays launch of biodiversity credit framework due to market uncertainties

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 20:42
A Switzerland-based digital carbon standard has decided to delay the takeoff of its biodiversity credit framework due to market uncertainties, expecting to launch the programme within the next 12-18 months.
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Article 6 needs EU leadership at COP29, urges carbon project developer

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-10 20:32
A cookstoves carbon project developer has urged the EU to "resume its leadership position" on international carbon markets at COP29, citing the disappointment of last year's UN climate summit in Dubai, at a conference in Berlin on Tuesday.
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