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Canada-based offset developer hires European carbon market expert to head trading desk
‘Tone-deaf’ fossil gas growth in Europe is speeding climate crisis, say activists
Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study shows
Europe’s “tone-deaf” expansion of fossil gas is accelerating climate breakdown and increasing reliance on hostile regimes, campaigners have warned.
Just four of Europe’s gas-fired power plants have a retirement plan and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%, according to analysis from the campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels.
Continue reading...Australia’s carbon credits system a failure on global scale, study finds
Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised
Australia’s main carbon offsets method is a failure on a global scale and doing little if anything to help address the climate crisis, according to a major new study.
Research by 11 academics found the most popular technique used to create offsets in Australia, known as “human-induced regeneration” and pledged to regenerate scrubby outback forests, had mostly not improved tree cover as promised between about 2015 and 2022.
Continue reading...Majority of sustainability experts believe elections will weaken European Green Deal -survey
EU ministers agree to fewer agri rules with looser climate requirements
Utah’s largest coal plant to be compelled to continue operations amid weaning demand
Cemex says emissions cuts allowing it to stretch surplus carbon allowance inventories beyond 2026
“It makes climate change worse:” Carbon credit projects claiming to regrow forests are failing
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“No excuses:” Australia urged to exit coal, double rooftop solar by 2030 in accelerated push to net zero
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