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US DOE funds $6.5 mln towards New Mexico coal CCS project

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 07:49
A New Mexico coal-fired power plant has received $6.5 million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to study the feasibility of carbon capture and storage (CCS) on-site, the agency announced Monday, even though the region has recently struggled with CCS viability.
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Long-term EU carbon price bull trend remains intact, could hit €150 by 2030 -panellists

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 07:12
The long-term bull trend in EU carbon prices remains intact, despite strong fundamental headwinds, attendees heard at an investment bank-hosted industry conference last week.
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France’s Credit Agricole to exit precious metals trading in shift towards carbon markets -reports

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:32
Credit Agricole, France's second-largest listed bank, will exit precious metals trading to focus on regulated carbon markets starting from 2025, according to media reports.
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‘Pirate birds’ force other seabirds to regurgitate fish meals. Their thieving ways could spread lethal avian flu

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:26
It’s easier to steal another seabird’s meal than catch your own fish. But this behaviour by skuas, frigatebirds and gulls is contributing to the spread of lethal avian influenza Simon Gorta, PhD Candidate in ecology, UNSW Sydney Richard Kingsford, Professor, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNSW Sydney Rohan Clarke, Associate Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Are kiwi and moa recent immigrants from Australia? Neither fossils nor genetic evidence support the story

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:25
A recent announcement that kiwi and moa are Australian immigrants is not borne out by available evidence. Working out when birds arrived in New Zealand requires both fossil evidence and genetics. Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Alan Tennyson, Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Stakeholders flood ARB with LCFS 15-day notice feedback, warn of potential litigation

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:12
California ARB’s 15-day notice to stakeholders of revisions to the Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) rule that upended earlier drafts has roiled stakeholders – particularly over new biomass-based diesel limitations – with some entities warning of potential litigation due to insufficient time for feedback on significant changes to the rule, in comments submitted to the regulator at the end of August.
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Belgian auto workers protests highlight obstacles to zero-emission cars

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 03:09
Audi employees in Brussels took to the streets on Monday, saying their jobs are being threatened by changes in the auto industry, illustrating the difficulties European car manufacturers face in balancing the shift to electric and ensure a just transition.
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'All good here' : Titan sub crew's last words before implosion

BBC - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:41
A fortnight-long public inquiry aims to uncover the facts about the June 2023 deep-sea disaster.
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LATAM Roundup: Colombia proposes carbon tax hike, Brazilian markets press forward

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:10
Colombia continued its push to move past years of carbon pricing stagnancy, Brazil saw cause for optimism in its voluntary and compliance markets, and Microsoft went shopping for carbon removal (CDR) credits in Mexico during the week ending Sep. 15.
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VCM Report: Signs of life as traders mop up cheap Southern Cardamom carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:06
Liquidity and some voluntary carbon prices started to edge higher last week in the over-counter-market amid rising chatter of deal talk and corporate orders.
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Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:53

Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents

When Luke Harris takes his daughter to the doctor, he strolls down well-kept streets with “smooth sidewalks and curb cuts [ramps] for strollers at every intersection”. If the weather looks rough or he feels a little lazy, he hops on a tram for a couple of stops.

Harris’s trips to the paediatrician are pretty unremarkable for fellow residents of Zurich, Switzerland; most Europeans are used to being able to walk from one place to another in their cities. But it will probably sound like fantasy to those living in San Antonio, Texas. That’s because, according to new research, 99.2% of Zurich residents live within a 15-minute walk of essential services such as healthcare and education, while just 2.5% of San Antonio residents do.

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FEATURE: Parties probe Article 6 ‘floor price’ but experts doubt formal rollout

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:38
Some countries, notably in Africa, are said to be pushing to establish a minimum price for the sale of Article 6 credits, according to sources close to governments in the region, though experts doubt that any widespread policy could realistically be implemented as the idea remains abstract, backed informally by just a few parties.
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US SEC disbands climate and ESG enforcement task force -media

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:23
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disbanded its Enforcement Division's Climate and ESG Task Force within the last few months, a news outlet has reported.
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US DOE announces $15 mln to reduce oil and gas methane emissions

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:22
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Friday up to $15 million in funding to support research and development of projects that reduce methane emissions from undocumented, orphaned oil and gas wells.
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Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge | Calla Wahlquist

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:00

Cultural protection order has been framed as a push to curry favour with inner-city seats, ignoring grassroots campaigns from Indigenous and non-Indigenous locals

Among the concerns listed by the 2,000 farmers who converged on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra last week was the protection of prime agricultural land from renewable energy developments.

It has become a common refrain. The National party leader, David Littleproud, warned at the party’s annual federal council on Friday of the risk to prime agricultural land from energy transition projects. The mining magnate Gina Rinehart took to the stage at a business event last year to warn that one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land could be “taken over” by renewable energy projects. In almost every campaign against a proposed development in the bush, the potential impact on prime agricultural land is raised as a key concern.

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The environment was meant to be ‘back on the priority list’ under Labor. Instead, we’ve seen a familiar story | Adam Morton

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:00

There have been moments of modest progress, but the Albanese government has not lived up to its early rhetoric

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Back in the heady new government days of July 2022, Tanya Plibersek told the National Press Club that change was coming for environmental protection in Australia after a decade of disaster and neglect.

Releasing the five-yearly state of the environment report, which the previous Coalition government had received months earlier but put in a drawer until it was turfed from office, the new environment minister said it told a “story of crisis and decline in Australia’s environment”.

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Net zero a ‘vast challenge’ with EU, US to miss NDCs, say analysts

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 00:04
The EU and US are on track to miss their 2030 UN climate targets, and achieving net zero by the middle of the century is now a “vast challenge”, according to a new energy transition outlook published Monday.
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Morocco to fulfil carbon tax, fossil fuel levy promises in 2025

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 23:09
The Moroccan finance ministry has presented a bill to launch a carbon tax in 2025 and lay the groundwork for an increase in value-added tax (VAT) on fossil fuels, following up on international promises to reform its system of environmental levies.
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