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Killer whale vs shark: solo orca eats great white

BBC - Sat, 2024-03-02 12:05
A killer whale is captured on camera hunting and "eviscerating" a great white shark in less than two minutes.
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West Virginia bill aimed at taxing voluntary carbon offset buyers stalls in Senate

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 10:02
A West Virginia Senate bill looking to tax buyers of nature-based carbon offsets generated in the state failed to be approved by the upper chamber on Wednesday following debate over property rights and carbon credit speculation.
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Entities add CCAs, speculators continue profit-taking run in RGGI according to latest US CFTC data

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 09:21
Emitters and speculators added to California Carbon Allowance (CCA) net holdings, closing out of Auction Clearing Price (ACP) contracts post the first permit sale of the year, while financial players continued their profit-taking run in RGGI Allowances (RGAs), weekly data from the US Commodities and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed on Friday.
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Ontario quadruples investment in provincial forest biomass programme

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 08:51
Ontario is providing an additional C$60 million ($43.3 mln) for its provincial forest biomass programme, it announced Friday, while also revealing the recipients of the latest tranche of project funding.
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Alberta TIER market credit prices decline in February ahead of retirement season

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 07:13
Spot credit prices under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emission Reduction (TIER) programme dropped in February ahead of retirement season for 2023 compliance, with the provincial government expecting maximum offset usage, according to a report published late Thursday.
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ExxonMobil sees support for lawsuit against investor-driven climate action

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 06:57
Two business advocacy groups filed an amicus brief Thursday in support of oil giant ExxonMobil’s lawsuit against shareholders who called for the firm to set a Scope 3 emissions target, in a push for federal courts to set a precedent regarding shareholder advocacy.
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EU breaks deadlock on Energy Charter Treaty exit

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 04:03
The EU has broken the deadlock on its plans for a coordinated withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international trade agreement denounced by climate activists for protecting fossil fuel investments and hampering the transition to net-zero emissions.
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UN carbon markets body to start work on Article 6 crediting tools, present wider package by COP29

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 03:38
Members of a UN body tasked with shaping carbon crediting under Article 6 will begin work immediately on several tools, including on baselines, additionality, and leakage, and open a consultation on methodological elements, in a bid to constructively push ahead on operationalising the international mechanism.
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Air cargo group launches voluntary carbon offsetting platform

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 03:26
A new portal enabling aviation industry firms and individuals to purchase voluntary credits to offset carbon emissions is now live, a spokesperson for The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) confirmed to Carbon Pulse.
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RepRisk to expand biodiversity risk tool to include power sector

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 02:41
Swiss data company RepRisk is working on widening the coverage of a tool, which shows the proximity of companies to biodiversity-sensitive sites, to include firms in the power sector, an executive has said.
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UNEP warns surging natural resource forecast could derail biodiversity targets

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 02:38
Extraction of natural resources, including crops, wood, and minerals, is set to increase by 60% by 2060, with devastating effects on biodiversity, unless bold actions are taken, a report has found.
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UK ETS supply adjustment mechanism could be in place from 2026 -official

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 02:31
Britain is aiming to introduce an allowance supply adjustment mechanism (SAM) to its carbon market from 2026, a senior UK government official told Carbon Pulse.
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Czech utility planning to close two lignite units in early 2025 -media

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 02:27
A Czech utility is considering shutting two lignite-fired power plants in the Czechia next year, citing the growing uncompetitiveness of the fuel, according to media reports on Friday.
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Voluntary carbon project developer launches large-scale electric cooking activity in Africa

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 02:26
A voluntary carbon developer, fresh from issuing Sub-Saharan Africa's first ever-green bond designated for the cookstove market, has seen its electric clean cooking project listed by Gold Standard, the company announced Friday.
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February voluntary carbon credit retirements keep market on track to reach 233 mln this year

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-03-02 01:47
Retirements of credits from the four largest voluntary carbon registries reached nearly 18 million last month and were almost equal to issuances in February, maintaining the momentum seen in January, data from the Carbon Pulse VCM Portal shows.
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Danish firm’s ‘climate-controlled pork’ claim misleading, court rules

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-03-02 00:53

Campaigners say decision against Danish Crown, Europe’s largest pork producer, sends resounding message

Europe’s largest pork producer misled customers with its “climate-controlled pork” campaign, Denmark’s high court has ruled in the country’s first climate lawsuit.

Campaigners argued that Danish Crown greenwashed its meat with round, pink stickers on its packaging that said pigs were “climate-controlled”, along with a marketing campaign that claimed its pork was “more climate-friendly than you think”.

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Act to save Dartmoor rainforest from sheep, urge campaigners

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-03-01 23:00

Authorities asked to step in to protect Black-a-Tor Copse, an ancient temperate rainforest in Devon at risk from overgrazing

There are acorns galore and tiny oaks sprouting from tussocky grass beside the gnarled ancient trees of Black-a-Tor Copse on the northern slopes of Dartmoor national park.

But each tiny sapling grows no higher than a sheep’s chin and there it stays, its new shoots and tender leaves repeatedly shorn each spring by the livestock roaming through this national nature reserve.

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Enhanced weathering shows CO2 removal, crop yield boost in US farmland study

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-01 22:38
Crushed silicate rock can sequester as much as four tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year and improve crop yields, according to a four-year field trial on US agricultural lands.
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Deep sea mining has ‘poor’ market prospects, report warns

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-01 22:37
Investors should think twice before backing the deep sea mining (DSM) industry due to high financial risks related to technological challenges and poor market opportunities, a newly released report has found.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-03-01 22:32
European carbon prices bounced off a key support level on Friday morning with short-positioned traders seen covering positions ahead of the weekend, as the market appeared set to post the first weekly gain of 2024.
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