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New one-stop solution created for airlines to buy CORSIA, voluntary carbon credits

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-10-07 08:01
Two companies have teamed up to offer airlines a one-stop solution for climate action via a portfolio of voluntary credits that includes those eligible for the UN's international aviation offsetting scheme.
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Australia is hosting the world’s first ‘nature positive’ summit. What is it, and why does it matter?

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-10-07 04:58
As Australia prepares to host the first Global Nature Positive Summit this week, let’s take a closer look at what ‘nature positive’ really means. Andrew Lowe, Director, Environment Institute, University of Adelaide Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Canada’s carbon tax is popular, innovative and helps save the planet – but now it faces the axe

The Guardian - Sun, 2024-10-06 03:00

As prime minister Justin Trudeau trails in polls, opposition seek to persuade voters environmental policy is a burden

Mass hunger and malnutrition. A looming nuclear winter. An existential threat to the Canadian way of life. For months, the country’s Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre has issued dire and increasingly apocalyptic warnings about the future. The culprit? A federal carbon levy meant to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

In the House of Commons this month, the Tory leader said there was only one way to avoid the devastating crisis: embattled prime minister Justin Trudeau must “call a ‘carbon tax’ election”.

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Labour could cut financial support for farms damaged by floods

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-10-05 16:00

Exclusive: Farmers still awaiting promised payments for uninsurable damage caused by Storm Henk

Labour may cut financial support for flooded farmers, the Guardian has learned, while money to compensate them for deluges in January has still not hit their pockets.

The previous Conservative government earlier this year promised up to £25,000 in payments for uninsurable damage from flooding caused by Storm Henk. However, the eligibility criteria for these grants has still not been set out, leaving farmers out of pocket. The scheme has been plagued with delays, with some affected farmers not being paid because they live too far from a river.

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Oregon lays out proposed CFP rules in alignment with California’s LCFS

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 12:36
Oregon released draft rules to update their Clean Fuels Program (OCFP) after market close Friday, following in the footsteps of California’s near midnight Eastern publication earlier in the week of their Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) rulemaking changes.
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CFTC: Positive sentiment shift across North American carbon markets

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 10:57
Traders increased net length across their holdings of California Carbon Allowances (CCAs), RGGI Allowances (RGAs), and Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs), according to this week's data released Friday from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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US airline sustainability head calls for policy alignment to boost SAF

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 10:31
The sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) industry is unlikely to scale without cohesive policy measures across jurisdictions, the sustainability lead at a major US airline said Thursday.
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Washington offers largest current year volumes for 2024 at Q4 sale amidst binary risk 

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 06:45
Washington state’s Department of Ecology (ECY) will offer the most number of current year permits of all the auctions held in 2024 at its final sale in December, along with future vintage allowances despite the looming risk of programme repeal in November, according to a notice published by the agency on Friday. 
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Dubai summit highlights plans for UAE carbon registry

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 06:39
An Emirati resolution to establish a national registry of carbon credits aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement earned special mention at the World Green Economy Summit held in Dubai this week.
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SCOTUS rejects states’ efforts to halt US methane rules

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 03:52
The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has denied stay applications filed by Republican-backed states against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s rules to limit methane output from the oil and gas sector.
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IMO talks to cut shipping emissions end with little progress

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 02:18
Talks at the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) this week concluded with some promising signs for the introduction of a carbon levy but still no significant advances.
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At least 14 killed in Bosnian floods after torrential rainstorm overnight – video

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-10-05 01:50

At least 14 people died in floods in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday and others were missing as torrential rain and landslides destroyed homes, roads and bridges across the centre of the country, officials said. Bosnia's presidency said it had requested military help for the wider Jablanica area, and engineers, rescue units and a helicopter were deployed, including to rescue 17 people from a mental health hospital. Neighbouring Croatia was hit by floods on Friday, though there were no reports of casualties. Authorities issued a severe weather warning for the Adriatic coast and central regions of the country

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EU nations greenlight tariffs on Chinese EVs to protect home industry

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 01:39
A proposal to impose tariffs on China-made electric vehicles has received clearance from the EU's 27 member states, in efforts to support the competitiveness of the bloc's auto industry.
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EU ETS has not led to a drop in European port movement -draft report

Carbon Pulse - Sat, 2024-10-05 01:38
The inclusion of the maritime sector in the EU ETS has not led to a reduction in port calls or container movements at EU ports, nor in trans-shipment activity, according to a preliminary report by the European Commission.
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Starmer pledges to avoid rerun of 1980s deindustrialisation with clean energy plans

The Guardian - Sat, 2024-10-05 00:40

Prime minister suggests there will be more public money made available for new technologies

Keir Starmer has signalled his government will drastically increase its green investment plans in an attempt to avoid a rerun of 1980s-style industrial decline by safeguarding jobs in heartland manufacturing communities.

On a visit to a Merseyside glass factory on Friday to unveil billions of pounds in funding for carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects, the prime minister suggested there would be more public money made available for new technologies.

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