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DATA DIVE: The impact on climate of 14 years of Conservative rule in Britain

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 04:03
The UK is facing its first general election in nearly five years on Thursday, with polls positioning opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer as the clear frontrunner to become the next Prime Minister of the country, which would see the right-leaning Conservative government leave power for the first time since 2010.
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Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos pulls launch of Fusilier electric SUV

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:59

Company blames delay on weak demand and confusion over government policies on ‘tariffs, timings, and taxation’

Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos has delayed the launch of its Fusilier electric SUV, blaming weak consumer demand and uncertainty about government policies.

Ratcliffe only unveiled plans to produce the low-emission vehicles in February, with production expected to begin in 2027.

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Climate fund selects nature-based, clean energy carbon projects for investment from 2024 group

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:57
A climate fund has chosen new nature-based carbon projects, and energy-focused emissions reductions activities, after assessing hundreds of applications among its 2024 cohort, following on from a durable carbon removals selection round earlier this year.
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France to invest over €10 bln in offshore wind, despite far-right hostility

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:44
France will support the deployment of offshore wind power thanks to a €10.82 billion state aid scheme approved by the European Commission on Wednesday, despite opposition from the far-right which appears closer than ever to having a majority in Parliament following elections to be held on Sunday.
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Standard announces new voluntary carbon biochar methodology

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:16
A voluntary carbon standard has released its new methodology for crediting durable removals from biochar production and storage, which will now face a public consultation.
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UK urged to speed up transition from oil and gas in the North Sea

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:03
As the UK faces declining oil and gas production in the North Sea, transitioning the region to offshore wind, green hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage (CCS) would provide energy security and valuable know-how, though the impact on workers and the environment needs to be carefully managed, experts say.
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FEATURE: Growth of interconnected electricity grids bolsters energy security

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 02:01
As power demand ramps up and generation becomes more dispersed and variable, electricity grid interconnectors will help to balance supply with demand levels and encourage countries to work together to secure energy supplies.
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Voluntary carbon integrity body faces criticism for missing additionality failures in more than 400,000 landfill gas credits

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 01:53
Half of the landfill gas credits issued by the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) likely fail additionality tests, despite the ICVCM approving the related methodology for its Core Carbon Principle (CCP) integrity stamp, according to analysis from a non-profit.
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Ecuador inks €23.4 mln REDD deal with German development bank as nation warms to offsetting

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 01:47
Ecuador signed a €23.4 million ‘REDD Financial Contribution Contract’ with German development bank KfW on Monday as the country seeks to promote mitigation projects and boost voluntary carbon market (VCM) activity following years of disengagement.
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World's oldest cave art found showing humans and pig

BBC - Thu, 2024-07-04 01:00
The oldest example of cave art has been discovered on an Indonesian island and dated back 51,200 years.
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After our first cold water swim our teeth chatter and hands ache – and I imagine the spirit of Mum not far away | Nova Weetman

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-07-04 01:00

We’ve been back twice a week since that first morning. It’s still freezing and we’re still slow, but the shock of it has gone

When my mum died in 2012, I found a box of her old life-saving medals that she’d been awarded as a teenager. She grew up in public housing in Williamstown, with a full-time working mother and a father who never really returned postwar. She used to say swimming saved her. It gave her a purpose, a sense of place, somewhere to belong when life at home was hard. Later she taught my brother and me to swim, and then my children, instilling in each of us a love of the water that has never gone.

My grandmother stayed in her one-bedroom high-rise tower flat facing the Williamstown beach until she had to move into an aged care home. For her, the smell of the salty sea drifting across land to her window on the fifth floor made her feel home. Gran wasn’t a swimmer, but she was a great supporter of the life saving club, earning lifetime membership in 1961. And when I checked, her name is still on the honour roll.

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Dick Smith enters nuclear debate but CSIRO analysis shows his argument in meltdown

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-07-04 01:00

The entrepreneur claims agency exaggerated the costs of the Coalition plan despite it using best-case scenario South Korea as the benchmark

High-profile entrepreneur Dick Smith entered the ongoing radioactive debate on nuclear energy this week, accusing government agencies of misleading ministers over the costs of reactors and the practicalities of renewables.

But Smith’s complaints about what the Australian Energy Market Operator’s plan for the future of the grid says, or how CSIRO calculated the costs of nuclear, are themselves misleading.

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Argentine developers to market first biodiversity credits at COP16

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-04 00:29
Two Argentine developers have partnered with a Switzerland-headquartered foundation to launch separate biodiversity credit projects in two South American forests over 11,000 hectares, with plans to market them at the upcoming COP16 summit, Carbon Pulse has learned.
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Austria sets out carbon management strategy for hard-to-abate emissions

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-07-03 23:42
The Austrian government is looking at the reforms needed to enable carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the country in an effort to tackle hard-to-abate emissions from sectors like steelmaking and cement.
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Environmental intelligence firm raises $10 mln to mainstream nature risk reporting

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-07-03 23:26
UK-headquartered nature platform provider Natcap announced Wednesday it has secured $10 million in a Series A funding round to scale its technology for supporting companies in assessing nature-related risks and opportunities.
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EU ETS could amass 1.7 bln surplus allowances by 2030 unless hydrogen production rises –analyst

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-07-03 23:00
The EU ETS could end its current phase in 2030 with a total surplus of 1.7 billion allowances, including 900 million permits in various reserves, but progress in reaching targets for green hydrogen could alter this outlook, according to a new study.
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Artificial light on coastlines lures small fish to their doom, coral reef study finds

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-07-03 23:00

Light pollution acts as ‘midnight fridge’, drawing in young fish, then predators, according to tests in French Polynesia

Artificial light shining from coastlines around the world is acting like “a midnight fridge” full of tasty snacks, threatening young fish who can be drawn to it and who are then eaten by predators also attracted by the brightness, according to a study.

It has long been established that light pollution hampers people’s ability to see the night sky and harms migrating birds, insects and other animals. But its impact on marine ecosystems has rarely been taken into account, said Jules Schligler, the lead author of the study at the international coral ecosystem research centre in Mo’orea, French Polynesia.

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Hurricane Beryl: Record-breaking sign of warming world

BBC - Wed, 2024-07-03 22:23
Beryl is the earliest category five Atlantic hurricane on record, fuelled by exceptional sea warmth.
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After asking ‘What about the climate?’ for 14 years, I’m standing down as an MP. But I have hope | Caroline Lucas

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-07-03 21:55

Voters and politicians now know slow, incremental change just won’t cut it. The next government must be bold and brave

  • Caroline Lucas is a former Green MP

When I entered parliament back in 2010 as the first Green MP, I used every possible trick in the book to push the environment up the UK’s political agenda. In the early days, progress was agonisingly slow. Simply making the case that Britain should be powered by renewables, not fossil fuels, was a daily battle. Every single budget, I would stand up and ask the same question: what about the climate? And then, quite quickly, things finally began to change.

I’ll never forget the moment I realised the environment movement had finally entered the political mainstream. The shift dawned on me during the school strikes five years ago, which brought over a million people worldwide out on to the streets in protest. I stood on top of a makeshift platform on a fire engine outside parliament and saw a vast crowd of young people, stretching as far as the eye could see, demanding climate justice and action.

Caroline Lucas is an environmental activist and former Green MP

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Central bank group flags two nature litigation trends

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-07-03 21:49
Nature-related law cases focused on rights and corporate responsibility are set to increase in the next few years, the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS) said on Tuesday in a report.
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