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Why firms are racing to produce green ammonia

BBC - Tue, 2024-02-27 10:04
Ammonia is essential for fertiliser production but producing it is carbon intensive.
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Oil majors join initiative to tackle ‘methane slip’ from fuelled vessels

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 10:01
Two oil and gas majors and a gas shipping company have joined an initiative aimed at improving technologies to measure and mitigate methane emissions from the maritime sector, in an effort to reduce pollution from the use of  LNG as a fuel. 
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Academics call for organisations to shift to carbon removals in offsetting strategies

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 10:01
Companies should shift towards carbon removals with durable storage in their credit-buying strategies as opposed to credits for emissions avoidance or reductions, say academics in updated offsetting guidance.
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Over 60% of the most-at-risk companies are failing to implement deforestation policies

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 10:01
Most of the companies driving tropical deforestation are failing to address their impacts, with one-third lacking commitments and almost two-thirds showing little evidence of implementing them, a study has found.
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British Columbia’s budget 2024 sees increase in carbon rebate amid reduced carbon tax revenues

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 09:25
BC’s ministry of finance anticipates reduced revenues from the provincial carbon tax but will allocate more funding to quarterly rebates for eligible residents, according to government documents published Thursday.
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RGGI Market: Prices hold near highs as market participants look ahead

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 08:59
RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices held near their record highs on thin volume over the past week, as participants anticipated more movement ahead of the Q1 auction next month.
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Italian oil major’s big plans to develop biofuels in Africa falters -NGO

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 06:00
Italian oil giant’s plans to produce thousands of tonnes of biofuel crops in Africa is falling short, an NGO’s study reveals.
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California kicks off 2024 with record low emissions amid high gas-powered generation

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 05:41
California electricity sector CO2 emissions continued to dip to record lows in January, even as natural gas maintained its historically high share of the state's energy supply, data published Friday showed.
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Is there an alternative to 10,000 kilometres of new transmission lines? Yes – but you may not like it

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-02-27 04:59
Australia’s main grid has 40,000 km of transmission lines. Building another 10,000 km quickly is proving hard. Magnus Söderberg, Professor & Director, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University Phillip Wild, Senior Research Fellow, CAEEPR, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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EU-Mercosur trade deal infringes upon UN climate treaties, breaches bloc’s climate law -analysis

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 04:32
A trade deal between Brussels and four members of the South American Mercosur economic group would compromise UN agreements and EU law, according to a legal analysis issued Monday.
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Egypt pins down legal status of voluntary carbon credits as it reveals regulatory framework

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 03:53
Egypt has defined the legal status of voluntary carbon credits to be traded in the North African country ahead of moves to harmonise a standard set of principles internationally.
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EU lawmakers to rubber-stamp nature restoration bill amid green policy backlash

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 03:43
Tuesday's vote by the full European Parliament's house on a bill to restore at least 20% of the bloc’s land and sea areas by 2030 is expected to be a 'rubber-stamping' exercise, although farmers' discontent with EU green policies, red tape, and lack of funding has been tearing Brussels apart.
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Indigo Ag doubles carbon credit supply in third crop, announces new partnership to boost voluntary buyers

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 02:59
US-based agtech firm Indigo Ag has completed its third carbon crop, more than doubling its post-buffer pool offset supply, it said Monday, while also announcing a new partnership that is expected to expand its network of credit buyers.
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VCM Report: Second oil major makes a splash in retirement of voluntary carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 02:55
A huge number of African REDD voluntary carbon credits were retired by an oil and gas major last week, but spot activity was thin and trading generally lacklustre as prices kept steady.
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Consultancy becomes first to make highest integrity voluntary carbon credit claim

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 02:32
An international consultancy has become the first voluntary carbon credit buyer to make a claim for the highest grade available under the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity (VCMI) initiative's code of best practice.
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Nestle sets new targets for protecting nature and banning deforestation-linked cocoa and coffee

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-02-27 02:11
The world's largest food conglomerate Nestle has published its 2023 sustainability report pledging to reach and maintain 100% deforestation-free primary supply chains by 2025.
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Farmers clash with riot police in Brussels as EU agriculture leaders meet

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-02-27 01:26

Belgian capital blocked by 900 tractors amid protests throughout bloc demanding policy changes

Farmers have clashed violently with police in the European quarter of Brussels, spraying officers with liquid manure and setting fire to mounds of tyres, while the EU’s agriculture ministers met to discuss the crisis in their sector.

As farmers also protested in Madrid and on the Polish-German border, at least 900 tractors jammed streets in the centre of the Belgian capital, police said, with protesters throwing bottles and eggs and setting off fireworks while riot police fired water cannon.

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Japan Moon lander survives lunar night

BBC - Tue, 2024-02-27 01:01
Space agency Jaxa said the craft re-established communication after the equivalent of two Earth weeks without Sun.
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