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Strong progress – from a low base: here’s what’s in NSW’s biodiversity reforms

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-07-19 06:09
Koalas in trouble, land clearing at speed – nature in New South Wales is not well. Now the government is proposing significant changes to its ineffective biodiversity laws. Hugh Possingham, Professor of Conservation Biology, The University of Queensland Carolyn Hogg, Deputy Director, Sydney Environment Institute; Co-Lead Australasian Wildlife Genomics Group, University of Sydney Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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FEATURE: Carbon insurers guarantee durability amid rise of removals offtakes

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 06:00
With buyers securing expensive, large-scale advance purchase agreements for engineered and nature-based carbon removals (CDR), carbon insurers are thinking beyond non-delivery policies and cash payouts to begin guaranteeing credit durability.
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Slow progress at UN Article 6.4 carbon crediting meeting as summer lull sets in

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 04:06
The UN body mandated to determine rules governing the Paris Agreement's carbon crediting mechanism has inched closer to providing a basis text for discussion at COP29, in one of the last opportunities to finalise recommendations ahead of the summit in November.
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Suriname forest carbon ITMOs attracting interest from 65 companies

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 03:14
Some 65 companies are lining up to buy the first sovereign Article 6 carbon credits endorsed by the Coalition of Rainforest Nations (CfRN), which should be ready for sale in September or October, the organisation told Carbon Pulse Thursday.
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Spoonbills return to E for first time since 17th century

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-07-19 02:04

Driven out by hunting and habitat loss, the snow-white birds are now nesting and breeding in a few pockets in England

With their long, spoon-shaped beaks, it is perhaps little surprise that the RSPB has nicknamed the offspring of a spoonbill a “teaspoon”.

It has been a bumper year for the snow-white wading birds, which have been found nesting and breeding in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the 17th century.

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UK coal mine fights for future in court

BBC - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:44
The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.
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UK coal mine fights for future in court

BBC - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:44
The coal mine promises to be net zero but a recent major ruling has cast doubt on its future.
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Verra pauses review of new voluntary carbon methodology proposals until 2025

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:35
Verra will pause the review of new voluntary carbon methodology proposals until the first quarter of 2025 as it implements changes to its review process.
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Labour has left farmers facing agriculture budget ‘cliff edge’, says NFU

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:29

Union says members being ‘kept up at night’ over failure to commit to continue payments at current rate

Farmers are facing a “cliff edge” as the Labour government refuses to commit to maintaining the agriculture budget for England, the president of the National Farmers’ Union has said.

The issue is one of the first pressures Labour is facing over its tight fiscal rules, along with a rebellion on the party’s refusal to remove the two-child benefit cap.

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Relief in Brussels as von der Leyen’s re-election cements EU Green Deal

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 01:19
Industry, political groups and environmental NGOs largely welcomed Ursula Von der Leyen's re-appointment as European Commission President on Thursday, citing "continuity" and "stability" in Green Deal policies as reasons for optimism.
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Colombia gives assurances over UN biodiversity summit after rebels’ threat

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-07-19 00:55

Organisers working to ensure safe environment for attenders in October after guerrillas’ warning of disruption

Colombian authorities have insisted it will be safe to attend a UN biodiversity summit in Cali later this year, after a dissident rebel group threatened to disrupt the event.

This week Central General Staff (EMC), a guerrilla faction that rejected the country’s 2016 peace agreement, said the UN nature summit Cop16 would “fail”, in a post on X addressed to the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro.

Find more age of extinction coverage here, and follow the biodiversity reporters Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield on X for all the latest news and features.

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US NGO partners with investor to scale nature-based carbon removal projects for agriculture

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 00:46
A US-based NGO active in carbon markets has teamed up with an investor to scale funding into nature-based carbon removal projects linked to farming land, they announced Thursday.
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Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-07-19 00:37

Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance

Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Roger Hallam, Daniel Shaw, Louise Lancaster, Lucia Whittaker De Abreu and Cressida Gethin were found guilty last week of conspiracy to cause a public nuisance for coordinating direct action protests on the M25 over four days in November 2022.

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Conservation finance group experts call for expanding compliance biodiversity credit markets

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 00:36
A conservation finance group has held discussions on the measures needed to scale the emerging biodiversity credit markets, stressing the importance of advancing government efforts to regulate transactions at a global level.
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Net zero policies such as carbon pricing growth can unlock trillions for EU, UK economies

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-07-19 00:16
Net zero policies, such as a consistent and strong carbon pricing growth out to 2050, could unlock significant economic growth for the EU and UK economies and bring forward net zero, according to a new report.
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Dutch carbon removal startup launches ‘plug-and-play’ direct air capture product

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 23:52
An Amsterdam-based company has launched a new direct air capture product designed to be suited to plug into any removal, storage, or utilisation project across different capacities and sectors.
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Plan emerges to buy biodiversity net gain units 200 miles from development

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 23:25
A plan submitted for buying units representing habitat uplift, under England’s biodiversity net gain (BNG) scheme, could be the first of its kind, said a lawyer.
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INTERVIEW: Bio-based acids boast 80% lower carbon footprint than fossil-based equivalents

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 23:16
A French company developing bio-based acids for a range of applications from food preservatives to perfume says that its products carry an 81% lower carbon footprint than their petroleum-based counterparts, and could also store carbon depending on the final use case.
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UK urged to ramp up emission reductions outside energy supply, or risk missing 2030 target

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 23:00
The new UK government needs to speed up the country’s emission reductions to make up for its predecessor’s slow-down, reversal, and delay of net zero policies - including a strengthening of its carbon trading system, the Climate Change Committee warned on Thursday. 
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EON subsidiary to present carbon crediting plan for battery storage projects at COP29

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-07-18 22:55
A subsidiary of large European energy firm EON plans to present a plan for crediting emissions reductions from battery storage projects at COP29 in November.
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