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Are kiwi and moa recent immigrants from Australia? Neither fossils nor genetic evidence support the story

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:25
A recent announcement that kiwi and moa are Australian immigrants is not borne out by available evidence. Working out when birds arrived in New Zealand requires both fossil evidence and genetics. Nic Rawlence, Associate Professor in Ancient DNA, University of Otago Alan Tennyson, Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Pascale Lubbe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Molecular Ecology, University of Otago Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Stakeholders flood ARB with LCFS 15-day notice feedback, warn of potential litigation

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 06:12
California ARB’s 15-day notice to stakeholders of revisions to the Low Carbon Fuels Standard (LCFS) rule that upended earlier drafts has roiled stakeholders – particularly over new biomass-based diesel limitations – with some entities warning of potential litigation due to insufficient time for feedback on significant changes to the rule, in comments submitted to the regulator at the end of August.
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Belgian auto workers protests highlight obstacles to zero-emission cars

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 03:09
Audi employees in Brussels took to the streets on Monday, saying their jobs are being threatened by changes in the auto industry, illustrating the difficulties European car manufacturers face in balancing the shift to electric and ensure a just transition.
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'All good here' : Titan sub crew's last words before implosion

BBC - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:41
A fortnight-long public inquiry aims to uncover the facts about the June 2023 deep-sea disaster.
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LATAM Roundup: Colombia proposes carbon tax hike, Brazilian markets press forward

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:10
Colombia continued its push to move past years of carbon pricing stagnancy, Brazil saw cause for optimism in its voluntary and compliance markets, and Microsoft went shopping for carbon removal (CDR) credits in Mexico during the week ending Sep. 15.
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VCM Report: Signs of life as traders mop up cheap Southern Cardamom carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 02:06
Liquidity and some voluntary carbon prices started to edge higher last week in the over-counter-market amid rising chatter of deal talk and corporate orders.
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Europe beats the US for walkable, livable cities, study shows

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:53

Cities such as Zurich and Dublin found to have key services accessible within 15 minutes for more than 95% of residents

When Luke Harris takes his daughter to the doctor, he strolls down well-kept streets with “smooth sidewalks and curb cuts [ramps] for strollers at every intersection”. If the weather looks rough or he feels a little lazy, he hops on a tram for a couple of stops.

Harris’s trips to the paediatrician are pretty unremarkable for fellow residents of Zurich, Switzerland; most Europeans are used to being able to walk from one place to another in their cities. But it will probably sound like fantasy to those living in San Antonio, Texas. That’s because, according to new research, 99.2% of Zurich residents live within a 15-minute walk of essential services such as healthcare and education, while just 2.5% of San Antonio residents do.

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FEATURE: Parties probe Article 6 ‘floor price’ but experts doubt formal rollout

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:38
Some countries, notably in Africa, are said to be pushing to establish a minimum price for the sale of Article 6 credits, according to sources close to governments in the region, though experts doubt that any widespread policy could realistically be implemented as the idea remains abstract, backed informally by just a few parties.
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US SEC disbands climate and ESG enforcement task force -media

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:23
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has disbanded its Enforcement Division's Climate and ESG Task Force within the last few months, a news outlet has reported.
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US DOE announces $15 mln to reduce oil and gas methane emissions

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:22
The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Friday up to $15 million in funding to support research and development of projects that reduce methane emissions from undocumented, orphaned oil and gas wells.
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Criticism of sacred site decision shows we have learned nothing from Juukan Gorge | Calla Wahlquist

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:00

Cultural protection order has been framed as a push to curry favour with inner-city seats, ignoring grassroots campaigns from Indigenous and non-Indigenous locals

Among the concerns listed by the 2,000 farmers who converged on the lawns of Parliament House in Canberra last week was the protection of prime agricultural land from renewable energy developments.

It has become a common refrain. The National party leader, David Littleproud, warned at the party’s annual federal council on Friday of the risk to prime agricultural land from energy transition projects. The mining magnate Gina Rinehart took to the stage at a business event last year to warn that one-third of Australia’s prime agricultural land could be “taken over” by renewable energy projects. In almost every campaign against a proposed development in the bush, the potential impact on prime agricultural land is raised as a key concern.

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The environment was meant to be ‘back on the priority list’ under Labor. Instead, we’ve seen a familiar story | Adam Morton

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-09-17 01:00

There have been moments of modest progress, but the Albanese government has not lived up to its early rhetoric

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Back in the heady new government days of July 2022, Tanya Plibersek told the National Press Club that change was coming for environmental protection in Australia after a decade of disaster and neglect.

Releasing the five-yearly state of the environment report, which the previous Coalition government had received months earlier but put in a drawer until it was turfed from office, the new environment minister said it told a “story of crisis and decline in Australia’s environment”.

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Net zero a ‘vast challenge’ with EU, US to miss NDCs, say analysts

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-09-17 00:04
The EU and US are on track to miss their 2030 UN climate targets, and achieving net zero by the middle of the century is now a “vast challenge”, according to a new energy transition outlook published Monday.
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Morocco to fulfil carbon tax, fossil fuel levy promises in 2025

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 23:09
The Moroccan finance ministry has presented a bill to launch a carbon tax in 2025 and lay the groundwork for an increase in value-added tax (VAT) on fossil fuels, following up on international promises to reform its system of environmental levies.
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‘Climate funding cliff’: 2.7% of EU GDP needed every year to reach net zero -study

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 22:32
Reaching climate neutrality will require additional investments worth at least 2.7% of the EU’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) – or €462 billion at today’s rate – every year throughout this decade, according to new research published on Monday, which warns against a looming EU “climate funding cliff”.
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Protected areas largely fail to prevent forest loss, study says

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 22:14
Protected areas (PAs) contribute to preventing, on average, just 30% of forest loss, with the lowest levels of protection observed in some of the world's most biodiversity-rich countries, a paper has said.
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Australian cattle body seeks to exempt agricultural lands from EU deforestation rules

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 22:00
An Australian cattle industry lobby group has released its definition of deforestation, in an attempt to seek exemptions for agricultural lands from upcoming EU rules.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-16 21:26
EU carbon permit prices dropped to a seven-month low on Monday morning before rallying briefly after the daily auction cleared at a record premium amid reported demand from options hedging, while gas dropped to a seven-week low and German year-ahead power tumbled to its lowest since April.
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Storm Boris batters central Europe – in pictures

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-16 20:23

Storm Boris has caused several deaths, and thousands have been evacuated from their homes across Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia

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