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Australia’s Climate Active sees another departure

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 18:52
Another Australian company this week announced a decision to look more closely at changing the way it tackles net zero with a plan for only “limited” use of carbon credits and a plan to leave the government’s Climate Active programme.
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Chinese province seeks creation of first forest CCER credits since relaunch by year-end

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 18:17
One of China's inland provinces is aiming to secure credits issued under the national voluntary programme from its large-scale afforestation project by the end of this year.
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Gold Standard unveils new voluntary carbon mangrove methodology with remote sensing

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 17:47
Gold Standard has revealed its first methodology for mangrove projects, which enables remote-sensing for measurement and impact quantification.
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Colombian carbon developer prepares to sell first Indigenous-led biodiversity credits

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 17:44
A Bogota-based carbon developer is piloting a biodiversity credit conservation project in an Indigenous reserve in the Amazon, planning to put the first credits on sale after COP16 in Colombia, the company has told Carbon Pulse.
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Getting an allotment totally changed my summer – and radically altered my relationship with food | Diyora Shadijanova

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-22 17:00

I’ve relearned the meaning of seasonality – and how fragile the natural systems that sustain us really are

A few months ago, when I received an email about an available allotment in my area, I struggled to remember when I had signed up for one. It turns out I had done so two years ago, fuelled by my envy for those with gardens during lockdown. Back then, all I wanted was a small bit of outdoor space that felt like my own, to plant flowers, herbs and, at a push, some chillies. A place where I could read and write in the sun, safe from distractions.

Now I was being presented a half plot of available land (125 square metres!) with an established apple tree in the middle – which I mistook for a cherry because of its pink blossom. “You’ll have to have a trial period, to see how you get on,” the woman showing me around said. She meant business. The plot, which was bigger than I could dream of, was beautiful but overgrown – getting it started would require proper graft. I wasn’t sure I had it in me.

Diyora Shadijanova is a journalist and writer

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Forestry driving beef and sheep farm conversions in New Zealand, with or without carbon pricing, research finds

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 16:52
Four research programmes suggest a likely increase in pine plantations across agricultural land in New Zealand, even with a low or zero carbon price.
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Verra opens public consultation on additionality tools to align with CCP voluntary carbon label

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 16:40
Voluntary carbon standard Verra has launched a public consultation for two of its tools in order to assess the additionality of project activities, with an aim to align them with the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
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INTERVIEW: Tech company targets first sovereign carbon issuance valued at $300-600 mln later this year

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 16:22
A financial data and trading platform firm is targeting Q4 this year to facilitate $300-600 million worth of sovereign carbon issuances from countries in the Global South, as it hopes to restore trust and build scale in new international carbon markets.
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China’s coal-fired power boom may be ending amid slowdown in permits

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-08-22 16:00

Permits for coal-fired power plants drop by 83% despite leading world in construction as focus turns to renewables

Coal-fired power is still enjoying a construction boom in China, but a marked slowdown in the permitting of future plants has given experts hope that the world’s biggest emitter may be turning a corner.

China led the world in the construction of new coal-fired power plants in the first half of 2024, with work beginning on more than 41GW of new generation capacity, data published on Thursday showed.

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Advocates overshadow industry’s cost concerns under Oregon CPP with calls for stricter rules

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-08-22 15:57
Industry complaints about compliance costs under Oregon’s proposed Climate Protection Program (CPP) rule were eclipsed by environmental advocates’ calls for immediate implementation of a more stringent scheme at Wednesday’s public hearing held by the programme’s regulator.
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Rafts of garbage, kelp and other debris could transport alien invaders to a warming Antarctica

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-08-22 14:38
New research shows how marine debris from continents across the southern hemisphere threatens Antarctica’s remote coastline and unique marine ecosystems. Foreign organisms might be hitching a ride. Hannah Dawson, Postdoctoral Research Associate in oceanography, University of Tasmania Adele Morrison, Senior Lecturer in Climate and Fluid Physics, Australian National University Ceridwen Fraser, Professor in marine science, University of Otago Matthew England, Scientia Professor and Deputy Director of the ARC Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science, UNSW Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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