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Marubeni takes stake in Danish biochar tech firm

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 12:58
Japanese trading house Marubeni has taken a stake in a Danish company whose biochar technology can reduce carbon emissions from sewage sludge treatment by 80%.
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WCI Markets: CCAs churn post workshop fallout, trade below WCAs

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 11:01
With a high turnover in futures and options trade, California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices have slipped below Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) in the aftermath of ARB's ETS workshop fallout.
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US CO2 utilisation firm raises $18 mln in Series A funding

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:49
A California-based biotech firm that utilises captured CO2 for protein production announced this week it has raised $18 million in Series A financing.
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Major Canadian bank to retrofit retail branches with heat pumps, cutting emissions 70%

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:45
A large Canadian bank unveiled plans on Thursday to install heat pumps through its retail branch network across the country, which it estimates would reduce emissions by 70% from these locations.
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Improved planning needed for New York to reach clean energy goals -state audit

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:40
State agencies need to improve their planning practices if New York is to reach its statutory clean energy goals, according to an audit released Wednesday by the state comptroller that provides a series of recommendations to do so.
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Bahamas’ carbon, digital asset laws launch hopes for lucrative voluntary market

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:25
Flagship carbon markets legislation may soon be joined by a bill to weigh in on digital assets, with experts interviewed Thursday expecting liftoff for a market in Bahamian credits owned and managed by the state.
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Canadian companies join forces to reduce methanol emissions via CCUS

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:17
A Vancouver-based global methanol producer and a Calgary-headquartered carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) project developer have announced a partnership to study reducing as much as 400 tonnes of CO2 per day from industrial production.
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Canada invests C$89 mln towards nature-based emissions reduction projects

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 10:10
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) announced Thursday that it would fund C$89.1 million ($65 mln) across ten nature-based emissions reductions projects, which also aim to conserve biodiversity.
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Strong progress – from a low base: here’s what’s in NSW’s biodiversity reforms

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-07-19 06:09
Koalas in trouble, land clearing at speed – nature in New South Wales is not well. Now the government is proposing significant changes to its ineffective biodiversity laws. Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland Carolyn Hogg, Deputy Director, Sydney Environment Institute; Co-Lead Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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FEATURE: Carbon insurers guarantee durability amid rise of removals offtakes

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 06:00
With buyers securing expensive, large-scale advance purchase agreements for engineered and nature-based carbon removals (CDR), carbon insurers are thinking beyond non-delivery policies and cash payouts to begin guaranteeing credit durability.
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Slow progress at UN Article 6.4 carbon crediting meeting as summer lull sets in

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 04:06
The UN body mandated to determine rules governing the Paris Agreement's carbon crediting mechanism has inched closer to providing a basis text for discussion at COP29, in one of the last opportunities to finalise recommendations ahead of the summit in November.
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Suriname forest carbon ITMOs attracting interest from 65 companies

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 03:14
Some 65 companies are lining up to buy the first sovereign Article 6 carbon credits endorsed by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations (CfRN), which should be ready for sale in September or October, the organisation told Carbon Pulse Thursday.
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Spoonbills return to E for first time since 17th century

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-07-19 02:04

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the snow-white birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

With their long, spoon-shaped beaks, it is perhaps little surprise that the RSPB has nicknamed the offspring of a spoonbill a “teaspoon”.

It has been a bumper year for the snow-white wading birds, which have been found nesting and breeding in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17th century.

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UK coal mine fights for future in court

BBC - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:44
The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.
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