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INTERVIEW: Rabobank adopts new tool to prevent project overlap following double counting claims

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:38
Dutch bank Rabobank has adopted a new tool to prevent overlap with any other carbon projects in the same area to where it plans to operate, following its suspension of project activities in Cote d’Ivoire in response to a government request.
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INTERVIEW: EU oil and gas industry on track to reach 42 mln tonnes of CO2 storage per year

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:17
Based on current projects, Europe’s oil and gas producers are on track to reach 42 million tonnes of CO2 stored per year by 2030, falling short of an EU-wide target of 50 mln, the industry’s trade association told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
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Millions face extreme temperatures as heat dome covers US midwest and east

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:02

Heat advisories are in place from Texas to New York as major east coast cities under air quality alerts

Millions of Americans are bracing themselves for dangerous temperatures at the start of the working week as a heat dome blankets the midwest and eastern United States.

Heat advisories are in place in Kansas and Texas all the way to New York and South Carolina, as the area of high pressure that caused misery in the west last week slowly makes its way across the country.

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Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans

BBC - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:00
It is the first cave to be discovered on the Moon and could protect astronauts from radiation.
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Cave discovered on Moon could be home for humans

BBC - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:00
It is the first cave to be discovered on the Moon and could protect astronauts from radiation.
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LATAM Roundup: Brazil pushes biofuels, Colombian high court rules on REDD

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 22:56
Carbon Pulse rounds up developments in Latin American and Caribbean carbon markets for the week ending July 14, in which Brazil reiterated the significance of biofuels in its decarbonisation strategy and Colombia’s Constitutional Court ruled for the first time on REDD projects.
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New political risk insurance covers for losses if Article 6 ITMO credits are revoked

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 22:32
A political risk insurance product has been launched Monday that will cover losses for both parties should a project’s host country revoke the authorisation of Article 6 sovereign credits, known as ITMOs.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 22:15
European carbon prices gave up Friday's late gains to once again test a major technical support level that has propped the market up since early July, amid similar weakness across related markets as forecasts for higher temperatures and improved renewables output brought an end to the energy complex's two-day rally.
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INTERVIEW: US carbon removals developer taps new hire to secure big offtake deals

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 22:00
A US direct air capture developer has named a new director of business development to lure major carbon removals buyers such as Microsoft and Salesforce into big, long-lasting offtake agreements, it announced on Monday.
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NGO map shows oil project’s threats to biodiversity-rich park in Uganda

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 21:46
An oil project in the Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP) in Uganda will have a devasting impact on biodiversity, with a number of grave consequences for wildlife and local communities already ongoing, a study has found.
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HP partners with nature tech startup to advance mangrove restoration in Indonesia

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 21:26
US technology company HP has teamed up with a Switzerland-based nature tech startup on an initiative aimed at advancing coastal ecosystem restoration efforts in Indonesia.
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DATA DIVE: What decarbonising the UK power grid by 2030 would look like

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:51
The cornerstone of the new UK government's climate policy - to accelerate the country's target for 100% clean power to 2030 - has proven divisive, with those who believe it to be pricey and unachievable on one side, against others who say it will be hard, but is worth a shot.
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China thermal power generation drops in June, renewable energy expansion continues

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:36
China saw its domestic thermal power generation decline in June, while renewable energy production continued to grow at a fast pace that could signal a turning point in the country's emission trend.
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FEATURE: The big opportunity of insetting for biodiversity markets

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 20:20
Many actors in biodiversity see the largest opportunity for biodiversity markets in ‘insetting’, a way of directly supporting nature in their supply chains while potentially generating biodiversity credits, as an alternative to offsetting.
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Singapore delegation goes carbon credit shopping in Ghana

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:50
Singaporean Minister of State for Trade and Industry Alvin Tan has taken a delegation of 22 companies with him to Ghana this week with the intention of cultivating a pipeline of Article 6 carbon credit projects.
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Investors pour $37 mln into firm turning CO2 into solid rock

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:24
A climate-focused investment fund has completed a $37 million Series A investment round in a leading provider of carbon mineralisation technology, aiming to accelerate the process of turning CO2 into solid rock for permanent sequestration.
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SK Market: Monthly KAU auction again oversubscribed, price likely to remain steady until compliance deadline

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-07-15 18:20
South Korea's latest monthly CO2 permit auction was again oversubscribed, with analysts expecting permit prices to remain steady throughout the rest of the current compliance period.
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First Asian elephant vaccinated in fight against deadly herpes virus

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 17:00

Tess, a 40-year-old female at Houston zoo, has been given a trial mRNA vaccine to help combat the virus, a leading killer of calves in captivity

An Asian elephant at Houston zoo in the US has received the first mRNA vaccine against herpes, which is the leading killer of Asian elephants calves in captivity.

Tess, a 40-year-old Asian elephant, was injected with the trial vaccine at the Texas zoo in June, after a spate of deaths in juveniles in zoos around the world from the elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus (EEHV).

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The horror of everything all the time! Wait a minute, here is a happy snail story! | First Dog on the Moon

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-07-15 16:38

Political violence is not OK but what about snails are they OK?

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