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Because bats feed on crop pests, their disappearance led to a surge in pesticide use. Research found a rise in infant mortality in areas where the bats had been wiped out

In 2006, a deadly fungus started killing bat colonies across the United States. Now, an environmental economist has linked their loss to the deaths of more than 1,300 children.

The study, published in Science on Thursday, found that farmers dramatically increased pesticide use after the bat die-offs, which was in turn linked to an average infant mortality increase of nearly 8%. Unusually, the research suggests a causative link between human and bat wellbeing.

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Voluntary carbon certifier Gold Standard has launched new calls for feedback on engineered carbon removal activity requirements as well as a tool for reversal risk calculations for geological storage.

The carbon intensity of renewable fuels is being increasingly factored into contracts, with an expectation that the final price may be adjusted depending on the carbon intensity of the actual energy source delivered, according to a commodity software company.

A carbon credit ratings agency is venturing into the assessment of ITMOs and risks that a country may fail to meet its Paris Agreement goals.

Ethiopia’s planning and development ministry, working with a UN capacity-building programme, is looking to craft a comprehensive framework for international carbon markets engagement, including participation in Article 6 carbon trading under the Paris Agreement.

Michel Barnier, a former EU commissioner and early champion of the European Green Deal, has been appointed French prime minister.

A French carbon removal credit manager has completed another funding round for an undisclosed amount, as it looks to further grow its credit purchase commitments beyond 10 million.

Carbon offsets could help the EU achieve its climate targets, but only if it insists on more rigorous rules around accounting, as well as around broader corporate net zero target-setting, according to a report published Thursday by a former European Commission senior official.

Mozambique’s Ministry of Land and Environment has given approval to a Dubai-based firm to restore mangroves along the degraded coastline in the Zambezia province of the African nation and generate carbon credits, the developer announced Thursday.

Krzysztof Bolesta, Poland’s state secretary for climate and environment, has highlighted his three main priorities for the upcoming six-month Polish EU Presidency beginning on Jan. 1 next year.

A Japanese carbon project developer has strengthened its management team as it seeks to scale to meet credit demand in the country.

Global investors representing $1.4 trillion in assets under management have called on companies they invest in to urgently disclose their nature-related impacts and address related dependencies.

Executives at the Evergreen Fund have said they could almost quadruple the land in English habitat banks generating biodiversity net gain (BNG) over the next couple of years up to around 400 hectares, if demand increases, Carbon Pulse has learned.

While carbon markets are helping to stem global warming, even a "very strong" energy transformation scenario would only limit global temperature rise to 2.4C, analysts said at a webinar this week.

Corporate financing of carbon removals will be crucial to keeping aligned with Paris Agreement commitments but they are not being deployed at the speed and scale necessary, a working paper from a UK university has argued.

Enthusiasts discovered Norfolk snout, thought to have died out in the UK in 1971, in their garden

The Norfolk snout was always a rare moth in Britain. By the late 1960s, populations of this small beige moth with a distinctive protuberant “nose” had dwindled to just one site – a working quarry in north-west Norfolk.

Bad weather or possibly over-collecting by a few zealots meant that the moth, which has a 20mm wingspan, became extinct in Britain in 1971.

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European carbon allowance prices were marginally firmer at midday on Thursday, with the benchmark clawing back early losses as energy markets appeared to be stabilising after three days of declines.

Implementing a 'bioeconomy' approach on biodiversity credit project areas in the Amazon could help developers stay afloat at a time when demand for units has yet to pick up, the founder of a Brazil-based nature tech company has told Carbon Pulse.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a loan of $60 million to the second largest steel producer in Indonesia in order to help the firm transition to low-carbon production and drive sector-wide decarbonisation.

A startup focused on exchange-traded carbon investments has tied up with a Dubai-headquartered e-marketplace firm to offer voluntary credits to its clients.