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Quake it off: Which Swift song moved Wembley most?

BBC - Sat, 2024-06-29 02:01
Wembley invited seismologists to set up monitors around the stadium for her first three London dates.
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Denmark offers subsidies to kick-start CCS development

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-06-29 01:16
Denmark has kick-started the bidding process for winning a government subsidy to build carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in the country.
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Nature-based avoidance credits ‘red flag’ for potential investors -report

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 22:53
Avoidance offsets, both legacy technology-based and nature-based avoidance credits with co-benefits, are the highest risk areas in the current voluntary carbon market, according to a report published this week.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 22:34
European carbon prices continued their week-long slide on Friday morning to set yet another two-month low as the market headed for a weekly loss amid declining liquidity and a narrowing price range, while power and coal markets also looked set to record a second weekly drop and natural gas was little changed from last Friday.
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Wildlife smugglers 'freer to offend' after police cuts

BBC - Fri, 2024-06-28 22:20
A top police wildlife crime unit tackling global smuggling is to be effectively axed, the BBC learns.
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Surge in CCS capacity in next 10 years will still fall short of demand, finds report

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 22:09
Global carbon capture capacity will surge to 440 millions tonnes per annum (Mtpa) while storage capacity will reach 664 Mtpa by 2034, but will still fail to meet demand, global energy data and analytics provider Wood Mackenzie has predicted.
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FEATURE: Landmark CO2 tax on Danish farming sets global precedent, though ambition was scaled back

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 21:56
Denmark’s move to impose a CO2 tax on livestock emissions marks a historic moment in pricing carbon emissions in agriculture, though the level of tax and phase-in schedule was scaled back in ambition, say experts.
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TNFD adopters grow past 400, pass $6 trillion in market capitalisation

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 20:59
An additional 96 organisations have pledged to adopt recommendations on nature-related financial disclosures within the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework, bringing the total to 416 adopters with over $6 trillion in market capitalisation.
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Study finds BNG metric brings no gains for birds, butterflies

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 20:56
There's no evidence that Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units developed using the statutory biodiversity metric in England result in improvements for birds and butterflies, as additional conservation efforts are needed to reach 10% net gain for those species, a newly published study has found.
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CN Markets: CEA hovers around 90-93 yuan, liquidity improves

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 20:46
China’s national carbon market saw allowance prices remain rangebound over the past week with a healthier trading volume, as pessimism persists among participants due to the lack of regulatory developments.
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Japan publishes draft JCM methodology for rice cultivation, first in agricultural sector

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 19:26
Japan on Friday published a draft methodology under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) for an increasingly popular farming technique, as the country seeks to expand the scope of the bilateral programme to cover overseas agricultural carbon projects.
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Weather tracker: Heavy rain in Switzerland and Italy causes flooding

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-28 19:07

Downpours moved south from Alps as far as Emilia-Romagna and Tuscany, causing rivers to overflow

Heavy rain and thunderstorms have caused havoc in Switzerland and northern Italy over the past week. Switzerland was badly hit on Friday 21 June, with downpours delivering more than 100mm across many areas – more than half of this within one hour.

Flash flooding and landslides swept away cars and houses, with at least one person known to have died, alongside widespread damage to transport infrastructure. The mountain resort of Zermatt was entirely cut off due to a combination of flood water, road closures and suspended train services.

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North Sea oil and gas firm Perenco failing to seal old wells, documents show

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-28 19:00

Fears of fire and environmental disaster as company repeatedly misses UK deadlines to decommission sites

The North Sea’s biggest oil and gas infrastructure company is risking fires and environmental disasters, experts have warned, as documents reveal it is failing to plug its ageing oil wells in time and is missing decommissioning deadlines by up to a decade.

Last year, the fossil fuel firm Perenco faced controversy after an oil spill from its Poole Harbour operations polluted the Dorset site, which is internationally recognised for its ecological importance. The RSPB reported oiled birds in the water at the largest natural harbour in Europe, which is one of the most heavily protected areas in the UK. Perenco promised it would never happen again and committed to pay for the damage caused.

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BRIEFING: What climate policy agenda for von der Leyen’s second term?

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 18:46
Implementation of existing policies and investments in net-zero technologies to meet the EU’s 2030 decarbonisation target will be the cornerstones of the new European Commission headed by Ursula von der Leyen when it comes to climate policy, officials have said.
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Incoming Indonesian govt to form state-run body to oversee the country’s carbon market

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 18:14
The newly-elected government of Indonesia is working to create a National Carbon Body that will oversee the country’s emissions trading activities, an industry group spokesperson told Bloomberg. 
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Japan picks nine advanced projects to support CCS commercialisation

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 17:49
Japan has selected advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects for the creation of a CCS value chain, as the country aims to secure a capacity of storing up to 12 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of this decade, the government announced Friday.
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UN-backed coalition grants $20 mln to Cameroon for adopting sustainable agricultural practices

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 17:28
The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) has approved $20 million in funding to Cameroon in order to help smallholder cocoa and coffee farmers adopt sustainable agricultural practices, it announced this week.
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Australia Market Roundup: ACCU prices stable as traders speculate on Safeguard demand, issuance drops

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-06-28 17:02
Spot prices for Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) have traded sideways for much of the past three months, with traders speculating that many facilities covered under the Safeguard Mechanism have already acquired all the credits they need to meet their obligations, at least for the first few years.
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Week in wildlife – in pictures: geese on parade, a radioactive rhino and a lovestruck eagle

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-06-28 17:00

The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world

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Some of us don’t have high-quality drinking water, and it’s putting public health at risk. How do we deliver universal access?

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-06-28 15:39
Growing and changing demands for water and the increasing impacts of climate change are adding to the challenge of ensuring everyone has access to a safe and reliable water supply. Stuart Khan, Professor and Head of School of Civil Engineering, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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