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England’s nature-friendly farming budget to be cut by £100m

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-03 22:12

Exclusive: Cut would mean at least 239,000 fewer hectares of nature-friendly farmland, according to RSPB

The government is to slash the nature-friendly farming budget in England by £100m in order to help fill what ministers say is a £22bn Treasury shortfall, the Guardian can reveal.

Nature groups and farmers have called this a “big mistake”, saying it jeopardised the government’s legally binding targets to improve nature.

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Developer using AI to produce carbon removal technology open-sources model

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 22:00
An industrial technology developer using artificial intelligence (AI) to design and deploy new climate technologies has open-sourced an AI model, with its first product set to be a carbon removal technology, in the early stages of commercialisation.
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South Korea to expand participation and curb surplus in national ETS

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 21:35
South Korea is planning to extend participation and curb permit surplus in its emissions trading system, as the government seeks to reverse the dynamics in the struggling market.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 21:18
European carbon prices dropped to their lowest in four weeks on Tuesday morning as the weight of selling pressure continued to hang over the market, while an upward revision to France's expected nuclear generation this year and bearish Chinese economic data added to weakness in the energy complex.
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Puro approved to supply large carbon removals buyers’ club

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:55
Finnish carbon removal standard Puro.earth has seen its issuances approved to supply a multinational credit buyers' club, the firm announced Tuesday.
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Regenerative agriculture firm raises €15 mln to support low-carbon farming transition

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:52
A Belgium-based company using carbon finance to incentivise farmers for sustainable practices has raised €15 million in a Series B fundraising round.
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Korean steelmakers likely to bear $2.2 bln CBAM costs over next decade, lobby group says

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:44
A major South Korean business lobby is urging the government to actively support decarbonisation of the domestic steel industry, as the implementation of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) could bring Korean steelmakers additional costs of 3 trillion won ($2.2 billion) over the next decade.
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Maritime compliance firm raises €5 mln to expand EU ETS solutions

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:36
A provider of emissions data and compliance management solutions for the maritime industry has closed a €5 million Series A financing round, according to a press release.
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Cercarbono expects to register a handful of biodiversity credit projects in 2025

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:36
Colombian standard Cercarbono expects to certify only a handful of biodiversity credit projects in 2025, hoping to have enough initiatives in its pipeline to test the standard during its first year.
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UK’s methane hotspots include landfills and last coalmine

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:33

Greenpeace urges Labour to ‘fulfil international obligations’ as critics question accuracy of official data

The UK’s worst methane hotspots include the last coalmine, livestock farm clusters, landfills, power plants and North Sea oil and gas wells, according to an analysis.

The process has also thrown up serious doubts over the UK’s ability to calculate its methane emissions.

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Kenyan wind power project embroiled in land dispute, unable to sell carbon credits -media

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 19:18
One of the largest renewable energy projects in Kenya, involved in a land dispute with the local community for about a decade, has been unable to trade carbon credits issued from the project, according to a local media source.
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Swedish developer, tech company partner on forestry monitoring for biodiversity credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 18:56
A Swedish biodiversity developer has partnered with an Irish forestry management software company to develop a monitoring tool for biodiversity credit projects in forest landscapes, they said on Tuesday. 
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India must auction carbon certificates to achieve climate goals, ensure just transition -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 18:30
India must allow auctioning of carbon credit certificates (CCCs) under its intensity-based Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS), in line with other emissions trading schemes (ETS) globally, in order to achieve its climate goals while also facilitating a just energy transition, a paper released Tuesday has found.
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Australia Market Roundup: Clean energy investment ticks up as transport emissions continue to rise

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-03 17:31
Australian greenhouse gas emissions have continued to flatline, as gains in the electricity sector are wiped out by rising transport emissions, according to government reporting.
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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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