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Second human-induced regeneration ACCU project gateway report calls for a focus on in-situ monitoring

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 16:33
A report into Australia’s human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects has argued that on-the ground, or 'in-situ', reporting measures are crucial to ensure abatement assurance, because national datasets are unreliable in the remote areas where projects are located.
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Seeing is believing: your neighbour’s choice to go solar might have influenced you more than you think

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-03 15:24
Seeing solar around your neighbourhood is a surprisingly large reason you might choose to do the same. Kaveh Khalilpour, Associate Professor in Engineering and IT, University of Technology Sydney Alexey Voinov, Professor in Sustainability Science, University of Twente Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Japan swelters through hottest summer while parts of China log warmest August on record

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-03 15:11

Climate scientists have already predicted that 2024 will be the hottest year ever

Japan has recorded its hottest summer on record after a sweltering three months marked by thousands of instances of “extreme heat”, with meteorologists warning that unseasonably high temperatures will continue through the autumn.

The average temperature in June, July and August was 1.76C higher than the average recorded between 1991 and 2020, the Japan meteorological agency said, according to Kyodo news agency.

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Pollution levels highly harmful to wildlife in quarter of England’s neighbourhoods, research finds

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-03 15:00

Friends of the Earth says pollution exceeds healthy levels for nature in 9,062 localities

More than a quarter of neighbourhoods in England have pollution levels that are highly harmful to wildlife, new data shows.

Friends of the Earth has named 27.5% of areas “nature pollution hotspots” in new research. These are defined as places where air, water, noise and light pollution all exceed levels that are damaging to nature.

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Five seabirds added to UK red list of most concern

BBC - Tue, 2024-09-03 11:32
Conservation groups are calling for action as populations of seabirds decline on UK cliffs.
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Doubling of carbon removal credit prices essential to sustain regenerative agriculture in US -study

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 08:32
Regenerative agriculture, including cover cropping and no-till farming, can significantly reduce carbon emissions when applied to large-scale farming operations across the US, but credit prices need to rise significantly to sustain such practices, according to a new study.
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‘The pāua that clings to the sea’: a new species of abalone found only in waters off a remote NZ island chain

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-03 06:22
The discovery of the Manawatāwhi pāua, unique to the Three Kings Islands, highlights the need to build taxonomic expertise to speed up work to describe thousands of as-yet unnamed species. Kerry Walton, Curator Invertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Hamish G Spencer, Sesquicentennial Distinguished Professor of Zoology, University of Otago Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Australia needs tradies and materials to build the power grid of the future. So where are they?

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-03 06:20
Australia desperately needs skilled workers and materials to build transmission infrastructure and keep the energy transition on track. Chris Briggs, Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Arctic tern and common gull join red list of UK species in crisis

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-03 05:00

Seabirds are in a precarious position as their breeding areas are threatened by climate breakdown and overfishing

Five seabirds have been added to the UK’s conservation red list, meaning they are at dire risk of local extinction.

The government has been urged to act as the arctic tern, Leach’s storm petrel, common gull, great skua and great black-backed gull join other seabird species such as the puffin on the list after severe population declines.

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Veteran carbon analyst leaves LSEG

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 03:37
A veteran carbon analyst has left LSEG after six years, around 18 months after several colleagues resigned to join a rebranded analytics firm also covering carbon markets.
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Benin project seeks to raise €1.5 mln for cookstoves carbon project

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 03:08
A clean cooking project in Benin has opened a call for crowdfunding, looking to raise €1.5 million for a cookstoves carbon project in the west African country.
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Global soy standard unveils update to align with new EU deforestation law

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 02:53
A global certifier of sustainable soy and corn production is consulting on an update to its standard that will allow companies to demonstrate that they align with the European Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
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FEATURE: Lack of clarity on penalties casts doubt over efficacy of CORSIA carbon offsetting scheme

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 02:37
A lack of clarity on how the CORSIA penalty system will work, and the fact only a handful of countries have started transposing the UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme into their national laws, raises doubts over how the mechanism will be enforced.
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Blue hydrogen necessary step on way to greener fuels, say experts

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 02:32
Blue hydrogen, made from natural gas where the CO2 emissions are captured and stored, will be an intermediary step on the path to a wider scale rollout of greener versions made using renewable electricity, said industry experts during a conference Monday.
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UK looks to award grants for carbon, biodiversity projects in Amazon

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 02:03
The UK PACT Amazon Regional Fund is branching out to offer grants to support carbon and biodiversity projects in Bolivia, Ecuador, Guyana, and Peru.
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