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RGGI Market: Prices return to record range amidst low volumes, strong power demand

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 09:32
RGGI allowance (RGA) values jumped over the past week on the back of strong power demand and high summer temperatures, as the futures market witnessed roughly four-month low volumes amidst the ongoing wait for programme review developments.
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Secret 'sky island' rainforest saved by new discoveries

BBC - Tue, 2024-07-16 09:29
Dozens of unique animal and insect finds have helped secure protection for an unspoilt mountain forest.
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Fossil fuel funding falling from Australian banks, but not fast enough -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 09:25
Australia’s banks are still funding fossil fuel projects and their developers at a rate inconsistent with Paris climate targets and their own net zero timelines, a report released Tuesday by activist shareholder group Market Forces said.
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US ammonia, biofuels producers combine efforts to reduce carbon footprint of ethanol

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 09:15
Top global producers of ammonia and ethanol based in the US announced a joint effort on Monday to pilot low carbon fertiliser application across US farms, thereby lowering the carbon intensity (CI) of corn used in ethanol production.
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A hairy caterpillar: a ginger toupee, twitching cartoonishly | Helen Sullivan

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-07-16 08:00

When I was in school, for a few weeks every year, caterpillars were the most exciting thing happening

On the trunks of small magnolia trees, in the corner where a table leg meets a table top, on a low damp wall in the shade – here the hairy caterpillars gather together. They travel in long lines, they sleep as close to each other as possible (displaying, it is called in science, a high level of “gregariousness”), as though the scariest thing a predator might see is a cat’s disembodied tail or retched-up fur ball, or a too-small itchy blanket.

If you take a picture of a hairy caterpillar and put it on the internet, a stranger will tell you that you can safely touch it, while another will say you can’t under any circumstances. “What about that says, ‘Touch me’?” one person will ask. “People really need to get a grip,” another will write. “The caterpillars which are hazardous to touch are the hairy Marys, which have hollow hairs with venom. The hairy Marys are very obviously hairy.” This person sounds exactly like an older kid talking to a younger one.

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Three hikers die in Utah parks in suspected heat-related cases

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-07-16 06:50

The hikers were a father and daughter lost in Canyonlands and a woman who passed out at Snow Canyon state park

Three hikers died over the weekend in suspected heat-related cases at state and national parks in Utah, including a father and daughter who got lost on a strenuous hike in Canyonlands national park in triple-digit temperatures.

The daughter, 23, and her father, 52, sent a 911 text alerting dispatchers that they were lost and had run out of water while hiking the 8.1-mile (13km) Syncline Loop, described by the National Park Service as the most challenging trail in the Island in the Sky district of the south-east Utah park.

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‘Alien invasion’: researchers identify which exotic animals may soon hitchhike into Australia

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-07-16 06:16
Invasive alien species become much harder and more expensive to manage as they establish and spread through the landscape. So preventing their arrival is vital. Arman Pili, Research affiliate, Monash University David Chapple, Professor in Evolutionary and Conservation Ecology, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Climate crisis is making days longer, study finds

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-07-16 05:00

Melting of ice is slowing planet’s rotation and could disrupt internet traffic, financial transactions and GPS

The climate crisis is causing the length of each day to get longer, analysis shows, as the mass melting of polar ice reshapes the planet.

The phenomenon is a striking demonstration of how humanity’s actions are transforming the Earth, scientists said, rivalling natural processes that have existed for billions of years.

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Cape Town raises $2 mln from Kyoto Protocol waste-to-energy projects

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 04:55
South Africa’s legislative capital has raised R$36 million ($2 mln) by auctioning credits generated under the Kyoto-era UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) from projects that convert landfill-origin methane into electricity.
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Mother suing government for child’s pollution death seeks official apology

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-07-16 04:11

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is suing three government departments over Ella’s fatal asthma attack

The mother of a nine-year-old girl who became the first person in the UK to have air pollution cited on their death certificate has said she wants an official apology for her daughter’s suffering as her high court claim against the government heads to trial.

Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah is suing three government departments for compensation for personal injury arising from the illness and premature death of her daughter Ella, who had a fatal asthma attack in 2013 after being exposed to excessive air pollution.

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VCM report: Slight lift in voluntary carbon market prices reflects CCP buzz

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 03:39
There was a slight lift in trading prices across several key indices in the voluntary carbon market last week, reflecting the ongoing interest in the impact of Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) on the market.
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South Africa’s president pushes for green energy as buffer against CBAMs -media

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 02:25
South Africa’s president has urged other developing countries to ditch fossil fuels in favour of green energy in order to avoid having to pay economy-damaging future carbon taxes, Reuters reported on Monday.
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CCS for traditional steel blast furnaces unlikely to be competitive -think tank

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:57
Retrofitting traditional steel plants with carbon capture and storage technology is unlikely to be more cost competitive than investing in newer, hydrogen-based steelmaking, according to analysis by a climate NGO.
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Qatari, Japanese climate institutes sign agreement to facilitate global Article 6 readiness

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:57
A Qatar-based research and development (R&D) centre has signed an MOU with a Japanese think tank to accelerate carbon trading under the Paris Agreement, the pair announced on Sunday.
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CORSIA credit demand up in the air amid diverse forecasts for airline emission growth

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-07-16 01:52
Credit demand for the first phase of CORSIA, the international aviation emission scheme, hangs in the balance with an extreme range between low and high projections of airline emissions, finds a report.
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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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