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Choughs breed in Kent for first time in 200 years

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-08-02 23:00

Unexpected fledging is result of long-term restoration project to bring red-billed birds back to Kent coastline

The chough, a charismatic cliff-dwelling corvid, has bred in Kent for the first time in two centuries.

A young pair among eight birds released last year defied expectations to successfully breed this summer, making a nest on Dover Castle and rearing one chick, which fledged in June.

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Japanese companies to set up SAF Scope 3 carbon credit scheme

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 22:28
Seven Japanese companies on Friday announced plans to trial a market for Scope 3 carbon credits generated from the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
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Global summit set for London in 2025 to tackle green energy revolution

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:51
Leaders and decision-makers from around the world will meet in the second quarter of 2025 in London to assess evolving and emerging energy security challenges in the green revolution.
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Social Carbon to release methodology for peatland restoration

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:43
Carbon standard Social Carbon plans to release a methodology for peatland restoration, with separate modules tailored to different areas, the company has told Carbon Pulse.
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New guide launches to provide insights into jurisdictional REDD+ carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:35
A newly released document aims to provide guidance for stakeholders looking to implement jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) programmes.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:23
European carbon prices headed for a second weekly gain, fluctuating in their narrowest range in more than three years on Friday morning amid what one source called a lack of aggression on the part of either buyers or sellers, as energy markets weakened after a strong series of gains driven by emerging concerns over supply.
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Report counts 40 challenges for biodiversity net gain scheme

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:09
England’s biodiversity net gain (BNG) scheme has 40 challenges across demand, supply, governance, and its metric to sort out for it to become a success, according to a report released this week.
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India to approve up to 20 carbon methodologies, operationalise voluntary market by year-end

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 21:05
The Indian government is expecting to approve around 15-20 methodologies by the end of the year as part of efforts to make its carbon market operational by then, several sources have told Carbon Pulse.
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CN Markets: CEA price remains stable, though weekly trading volume drops

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 20:40
CO2 allowance prices in China’s carbon market remained stable over the past week, though market participants are still awaiting the release of the permit allocation plan that will determine market fundamentals for the next year and a half.
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South Korea urged to include coal phase-out in 2035 NDC

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 19:03
South Korea should take into consideration the phase-out of coal-fired power plants when drafting climate policies for the country's 2035 Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), a think tank has suggested.
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Former Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson arrested on a Japanese warrant from 2012 – what next?

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-08-02 17:05
Two legal experts explore the arrest and potential extradition of Sea Shepherd Founder and anti-whaling activist Paul Watson on a Japanese warrant from 2010. Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Senior Lecturer, Deakin University Danielle Ireland-Piper, Associate Professor, ANU National Security College, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Week in wildlife – in pictures: a feisty sea lion, a retiring elephant and a fleeing fox

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-08-02 17:00

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Global trading house, Korean securities firm eye Paris-aligned charcoal project in Ghana

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 16:57
A global trading house and a South Korean securities firm have partnered with a project developer on a Ghana-based emissions reduction project that will create carbon credits aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
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Oil-rich Nigerian state teams up with UK firm for blue carbon projects

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 16:06
A state in Southern Nigeria has signed a 30-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a UK-based firm for the conservation of coastal ecosystems within the state.
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Environmentalist becomes first juror to swear oath on river water

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-08-02 16:00

Paul Powlesland, the co-founder of Lawyers for Nature, says he considers the River Roding to be sacred

When jurors are called to court, they are required to swear on a holy book or make a secular promise to tell the truth.

So court officials were perplexed when the environmental activist and barrister Paul Powlesland was called for jury service and produced a vial of river water and asked to swear on the River Roding.

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Zoo hails birth of 'one of world's rarest animals'

BBC - Fri, 2024-08-02 15:25
The onager foal has been running off energy while enjoying his new habitat, zookeepers said.
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WCI Markets: CCA prices gain momentum on wide intraday range

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-08-02 14:11
California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices plunged to year-to-date lows before rebounding on Wednesday, with a surge in volatility that brought intraday spreads up to more than $2 in the absence of a catalyst to signal market direction.
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