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Danish regenerative farming specialist teams up with Ukrainian bank on soil carbon finance model

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 18:44
A Danish tech startup specialising in regenerative agriculture finance and technology has teamed up with a bank in Ukraine to further tap the war torn country’s vast farming market for its soil carbon credit programmes.
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Scandinavian industrial secures first China SAF project

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 18:35
A Denmark-headquartered industrial company has secured its first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project in China as it aims to address the fast-growing global demand for cleaner fuels.
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Taiwan releases draft regulations on carbon levy collection, proposes preferential rates for emitters with voluntary targets

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 17:13
Taiwan's environment ministry has released three draft sub-laws to underpin the island's upcoming carbon levy scheme, estimating the amount emitters have to pay based on their carbon leakage risk and voluntary plans.
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Sports ask government to address water pollution

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-30 15:12
Water-based sports across the UK are uniting to call on the government to take urgent action to address pollution in rivers, lakes and coastal waters.
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Southeast Asia registries partner for transparency, expansion, and Article 6 work

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 14:22
A recently formed carbon offsets standard and registry based in Singapore has partnered with a larger international partner to enhance the credibility and transparency of its platform.
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POLL: Analysts maintain bearish near-term UKA forecasts as fundamentals remain weak

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 14:01
Analysts have kept their UKA price forecasts at well below £50 for the next two years, citing weak fundamentals and ongoing policy uncertainty that will keep the market trading at a substantial discount to the EU ETS for most of the decade.
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Australia proposes amendments to emissions reporting scheme

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 11:16
The federal government is consulting on legislative amendments to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) scheme to make emissions reporting more robust, releasing a discussion paper on proposed changes on Monday.
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Louisiana lawmakers inundated with carbon capture and storage bills

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 10:48
At least a dozen bills pertaining to carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) are in the pipeline to become law in Louisiana, as lawmakers surmise the regulatory future of CCS in the state prior to the close of the legislative session.
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US aviation stakeholders launch coalition to uplift the SAF market

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 10:00
Some 40 aviation industry stakeholders and biofuels producers on Monday announced the launch of the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Coalition to advance investments and drive policies within the sector.
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We found pesticides in a third of Australian frogs we tested. Did these cause mass deaths?

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-30 09:39
Among the poisons found in 36% of the frogs tested, rodenticide was detected for the first time. Pesticides are considered a threat to hundreds of amphibian species. Jodi Rowley, Curator, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation Biology, Australian Museum, UNSW Sydney Damian Lettoof, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Wildlife Ecotoxicology, CSIRO Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Brazilian CCUS regulatory framework should adopt experimental approach -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 09:39
The federal agency likely to be responsible for oversight of Brazilian carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) should adopt an experimental regulatory approach based on pilot projects, according to a report published earlier this month.
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Tensions grow as China ramps up mining for green tech

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-30 09:17
China has taken big stakes in mines across the world extracting minerals vital to the green economy.
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A child said monsters were in her room. It was 60,000 bees

BBC - Tue, 2024-04-30 09:09
Saylor Class had complained of "monsters in the wall" of her room at their farmhouse in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Photographer accidentally snaps rare bird in Oregon: ‘It’s mind-blowing’

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 08:30

Michael Sanchez took photos of a bird at Hug Point that may be first official images in North America of the rare blue rock-thrush

Michael Sanchez was setting up his new camera to capture a waterfall at Oregon’s Hug Point at sunrise when he spotted a little bird hopping around. He snapped a few photos, and didn’t think much more of it.

A week later, those snapshots have made him the star – and the envy – of the local birding community. Sanchez, who is from Vancouver, Washington, may have inadvertently captured the first images of an extremely rare blue rock-thrush in North America.

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