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European carbon removal accelerator selects eight startups for development phase

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 19:51
An EU-based carbon removal (CDR) accelerator has announced the selection of eight startups for a development stage of its programme, including a 'negative emission' coal producer, a biochar firm, and a solution focused on decarbonising the construction sector.
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FEATURE: Enhanced weathering alliance seeks EU certification for carbon removals

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 19:08
The Enhanced Weathering Alliance (EWA) has denounced an “opaque” process for developing CO2 removal certification methodologies at EU level, calling on the European Commission to provide more clarity around timelines and deliverables.
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BREAKING: Von der Leyen puts ‘new clean industrial deal’ at centre of second mandate

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 18:47
Ursula von der Leyen pledged to “stay the course” on climate policy and focus on implementing the Green Deal in the coming five years as she seeks the European Parliament’s backing on Thursday for a second term as EU Commission President.
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AU Market: HIR ACCUs lose market share as sellers wait for better prices, Safeguard demand

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 18:30
There has been a significant decline in the proportion of human-induced regeneration (HIR) ACCUs transacted in the Australia's brokered carbon market, according to recent data.
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Major securities firm becomes the first South Korean financial company to secure international credits

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 18:19
One of South Korea's largest securities firms has obtained carbon credits from an international project, the first financial company to do so in the country, it announced Thursday.
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Banks must tackle nature loss through circular economy, UNEP FI says

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 18:00
The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) on Thursday launched a guide to help banks implement a circular economy as what it said is a critical way of conserving nature, combatting pollution, and reaching net zero.
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Is Australia becoming a dumping ground for unrepairable appliances?

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-07-18 16:16
Australian consumers deserve a legal right to repair beyond the warranty. If we fail to keep up with the UK and EU, we risk becoming a dumping ground for cheap and nasty appliances. Leanne Wiseman, Professor of Law, Griffith University, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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‘People think they’ll smell but they don’t’: inside the Namibian homes built from mushrooms

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-07-18 15:00

A sustainable project aims to repurpose encroacher bush to create building blocks to solve Namibia’s housing crisis

“People think the house would smell because the blocks are made of all-natural products, but it doesn’t smell,” says Kristine Haukongo. “Sometimes, there is a small touch of wood, but otherwise it’s completely odourless.”

Haukongo is the senior cultivator at the research group MycoHab and her job is pretty unusual. She grows oyster mushrooms on chopped-down invasive weeds before the waste is turned into large, solid brown slabs – mycoblocks – that will be used, it’s hoped, to build Namibian homes.

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Labour must ramp up renewable energy to meet 2030 climate vows, says watchdog

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-07-18 15:00

CCC says delays and reverses under Rishi Sunak have left UK drastically off track from Paris commitments

The new Labour government must oversee a massive ramping up of renewable energy generation in this parliament or the UK will breach its international obligations under the Paris agreement, the government’s climate watchdog has said.

The Conservative government left the country drastically off track to meet its international commitments, despite setting the carbon-cutting target before hosting the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow in 2021, the Committee on Climate Change found in its most recent annual report.

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Govt role key in scaling voluntary carbon markets, says OECD

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 15:00
Targeted government support will be needed to scale the supply of high-integrity carbon credits and to ensure strong demand and price premiums for these issuances, the OECD said in a report published Thursday.
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Near-extinct crocodiles make comeback in Cambodia

BBC - Thu, 2024-07-18 14:26
The hatching of 60 eggs is a record for the endangered species in this century.
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Swedish developer signs biodiversity credit deal with forestry trading platform

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 13:57
A Swedish biodiversity developer has partnered with the country’s main digital forest and timber marketplace to sell its biodiversity credits on the platform.
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INTERVIEW: Ecosystem service credits can unlock corporate purchases in biodiversity markets

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 13:21
Credits tied to single ecosystem services have the potential to drive corporate action in the emerging biodiversity market, as they could help companies effectively address their dependencies on nature, a consultant has told Carbon Pulse.
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