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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 22:11
European carbon prices rose to a more than two-month high on Monday morning, propelled by year-to-date highs in natural gas and power, and the prospect of sharply warmer temperatures across Europe that were expected to boost the call on thermal power.
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Carbon ETF leaves Australian exchange after losses, lack of interest

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 20:17
A carbon exchange traded fund (ETF) on the Australian bourse will shut down operations next month, citing failure to reach the needed size to track the benchmark and meet its investment plans, not being cost effective to investors compared to other carbon ETFs, and limited secondary market trading volumes.
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I swam in the Thames last week. Yes, it is full of sewage – but it is also a beautiful river | Nell Frizzell

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-08-12 20:00

The Thames is often treated badly: pumped with effluent by water companies and viewed as just a geographical gap or dividing line. It is worth remembering its magic

Pull on your effluent suits and ring the sewage bell because, friends, Thames Water is being fined. Or at least it might be. The industry regulator, Ofwat, finally said out loud what we have all known for some time: that the privatised water company has been pumping raw sewage into our waterways for years. As a consequence, the company is facing a fine of £104m; just to put that number into context, according to the BBC, Thames Water reported an increase in annual profits to £157.3m last year, but is also facing a debt of £15.2bn. It makes huge profits and has no money; it’s almost as if turning one of life’s most essential building blocks into a commodity to be distributed for private gain wasn’t a great idea in the first place.

The thing about the Thames is that many of us – particularly residents of London and the towns and cities further upstream – don’t really think of it as a river at all. We treat it as a geographical gap; a dividing line between north and south, or between local wards, or between different demographics. It might be scattered with boats, sure, but it’s also scattered with plastic bottles, old shopping trolleys, timber pallets and crisp packets, just like any rundown city car park or alleyway. But the Thames is a river. In many ways, it is one of the most beautiful rivers in Britain; aesthetically and for all the history and culture it holds.

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CCUS not a viable option for retrofitting of existing thermal power plants -Indian official

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 19:45
The feasibility of carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) is highly uncertain, making it an unviable option for the retrofitting of existing thermal power plants, an Indian government official has told the upper house of Parliament.
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INTERVIEW: Malaysian carbon alliance to back ASEAN interoperable carbon market, says inaugural president

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 19:01
One of the many goals of the newly-formed carbon market alliance in Malaysia is to support an interoperable carbon market across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region, the association’s inaugural president has told Carbon Pulse.
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Tokyo government selects startups to kick off carbon offset projects

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 17:39
The government of Tokyo has selected several climate startups to initiate voluntary projects that can create credits from nature-based and farming solutions, with the first batch of pilot projects to be implemented in the coming months.
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EU member states make scant progress in 2024 EUA handout

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 17:37
EU member states handed out fewer than 10 million EUAs for 2024 to industrial installations in the last two weeks, raising the total number of permits issued by just 1.5 percentage points and leaving the market with more than 21% of its annual allocation still to be distributed among emitters.
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Pantanal waterway project would destroy a ‘paradise on Earth’, scientists warn

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-08-12 16:00

The South American wetland, which falls within Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, would be vulnerable to biome loss and increased wildfires

Dozens of scientists are sounding the alarm that carving a commercial waterway through the world’s largest wetlands could spell the “end of an entire biome”, and leave hundreds of thousands of hectares of land to be devastated by wildfires.

The Pantanal wetland – which falls within Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, covering an area almost half the size of Germany – is facing the proposed construction of a commercial waterway, as well as the expansion of industrial farming and spread of intense wildfires. A cohort of 40 scientists say the waterway development represents an existential threat to the ecosystem: reducing the floodplain, increasing the risk of fires and transforming the area into a landscape that could more easily be farmed.

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Industry push to earn carbon credits from Australia’s native forests would be a blow for nature and the climate

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-08-12 15:56
Australia cannot risk any further declines in its biodiversity resulting from harvesting native forests, or actions that bring further risks to its emissions-reduction goal. David Lindenmayer, Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University Brendan Mackey, Director, Griffith Climate Action Beacon, Griffith University Heather Keith, Senior Research Fellow in Ecology, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Pushing the boundaries: Indian women in a man’s world – in pictures

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-08-12 15:00

A Thousand Thorns is a project by photographer Deepti Asthana documenting women’s changing aspirations in rural India through the story of two young female forest guards in Rajasthan’s Thar desert. Theirs is a scenario playing out in millions of homes – of the fight for equality and independence in a deeply patriarchal society

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Securities firm leads call for China OECMs

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 14:08
A Shanghai- and Hong Kong-listed securities firm has issued a call for expressions of interest in Mainland China projects seeking status as Other Effective land-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) as part of the country’s efforts to meet its commitments under the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF).
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Australian miners, airline commit A$80 mln to carbon origination fund in first close

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-08-12 12:26
An Australian investment joint venture has launched a carbon credit fund focusing on reforesting agricultural land after securing A$80 million ($52 mln) in its initial close from some of the country’s largest miners and airlines.
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