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Canada commits C$10 mln to CDR services by 2030

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 07:45
Canada pledged Wednesday to spend at least C$10 million ($7.3 mln) by 2030 to procure CO2 removal (CDR) services as part of a national strategy to reduce and compensate emissions from governmental operations.
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UPDATE – Washington’s APCR auction of 2024 sells one-third of permits at 41% premium despite looming programme repeal

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 06:52
Washington’s Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) sale for the year sold about a third of the permits offered at a premium of about 41.2% compared to the secondary market futures price despite potential for the programme being scrapped by voters at the November elections, results published Wednesday showed, with traders debating how many and why any bidders had participated in the sale.
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Rebates for buying e-bikes and e-scooters are good but unlikely to greatly boost sustainable transport on their own

The Conversation - Thu, 2024-10-10 04:59
Rebates may well increase ownership but won’t overcome the main obstacles to riding e-bikes and e-scooters, which are lack of infrastructure and concerns about safety. Abraham Leung, Senior Research Fellow, Cities Research Institute, Griffith University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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LATAM Airlines supporting carbon, biodiversity projects while in search of SAF -panel

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 03:51
LATAM Airlines is looking to support carbon and biodiversity projects in Latin America as it strives to meet its sustainability goals without any regional sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at its immediate disposal, the airline’s sustainability manager said Wednesday.
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CFEL2024: UK hopes to kickstart removals by bringing them into ETS

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 03:17
The UK’s plan to integrate greenhouse gas removals into its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) is designed to boost demand for credits at a time when the UK market faces turbulence and uncertainty, speakers said at Carbon Forward Expo London on Wednesday.
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Verra, market stakeholders to launch Chilean carbon group

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 02:59
Chilean voluntary carbon market (VCM) stakeholders are launching a national carbon association in partnership with VCM standard and registry Verra, as per an announcement at the Chile Carbon Forum in Santiago on Wednesday.
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CFEL24: No need to panic about end of EU ETS allowances in 2039, says Commission

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 02:59
A European Commission official said there is “no need to panic” about running out of EU ETS allowances in 2039, due to the expansion of the system’s scope to include additional sectors and auctioning of allowances for aviation.
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Green hydrogen costs may far exceed estimates once storage, distribution are factored in -report

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 02:55
Despite the growing interest in green hydrogen as a way to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, its high carbon abatement costs — driven largely by storage and distribution expenses — may hinder widespread adoption, according to new research.
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CFEL24: Delayed industrial hedging defers EU carbon price hike, traders say

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 02:52
How and when industrials start hedging allowances on the EU ETS will be key to price dynamics, but that behaviour may be delayed depending on the enforcement of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), according to industry traders who spoke on Wednesday at the Carbon Forward conference in London.
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CFEL24: Analysts forecast 50-cent rise in fuel prices due to EU ETS2

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 01:47
The price of petrol and diesel is expected to jump on average by €0.50 per litre at the pump across Europe when the EU’s new Emissions Trading Scheme for road transport and heating fuels (ETS2) comes into force, analysts have said.
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Mama bear beats rival who killed her cub to win Fat Bear Week

BBC - Thu, 2024-10-10 01:43
The brown bear, named 128 Grazer, also defeated her rival, Chunk, last year to win the title.
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Denmark joins call to impose ‘solidarity levies’ on biggest polluting sectors

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 01:26
Denmark has thrown its weight behind calls for 'solidarity levies' to be imposed on sectors like shipping, aviation, and fossil fuel extraction, one month ahead of a UN climate summit that will be focused on agreeing a new global climate finance goal.
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Climate tech firm launches spin-off for carbon capture and fertiliser production

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 01:23
A Swiss climate technology company has launched a new entity that will take over key projects, such as transforming sulphur into ammonium sulphate fertiliser and developing carbon capture solutions, it announced on Wednesday.
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Our dystopian climate isn’t just about fires and floods. It’s about society fracturing | Bill McKibben

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-10 00:51

Climate disasters risk pulling society apart. To survive we need solidarity – and only one ticket in the US election offers that

Even as the good people of Florida’s west coast pulled the soggy mattresses from Helene out to the curb, Milton appeared on the horizon this week – a double blast of destruction from the Gulf of Mexico that’s a reminder that physics takes no time off, not even in the weeks before a crucial election. My sense is that those storms will help turn the voting on 5 November into a climate election of sorts, even if – as is likely – neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump spend much time in the next 25 days talking about CO2 or solar power.

That’s because these storms show not only the power of global heating (Helene’s record rains, and Milton’s almost unprecedented intensification, were reminders of what it means to have extremely hot ocean temperatures). More, they show what we’re going to need to survive the now inevitable train of such disasters. Which is solidarity. Which is something only one ticket offers.

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English water system singled out for criticism by UN special rapporteur

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-10-10 00:23

Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo says regulator Ofwat ‘complacent’ about water firms putting their shareholders before public

The privatised English water system has been singled out for criticism by the UN special rapporteur on the human right to clean water.

Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo said water systems should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.

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Global tax on aviation, shipping could raise $200 bln annually by 2035 -IMF

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-10-10 00:07
International transportation, especially aviation and shipping, must be “urgently taxed” as that would raise up to $200 billion a year in revenues by 2035, potentially tripling current global climate finance, a paper released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has found.
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Andrew Forrest says net zero is ‘fantasy’ so his goal is ‘real zero’. What does he mean – and can he achieve it? | Temperature Check

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-10-09 23:48

The mining tycoon says his iron ore business will stop using fossil fuels by the end of the decade without carbon offsets or carbon capture and storage

About $45 trillion of global business revenue is covered by corporate “net zero emissions” pledges but iron ore billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest thinks the whole net zero thing is “fantasy”.

“Now is the time to walk away from net zero 2050, that hasn’t been anything really but a con to maintain fossil fuels,” Forrest said last week.

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Satellite data tool finds methane leaks could be higher than reported in Australia

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-10-09 23:46
Emissions from 20 methane leak hotspots could be twice the official number, according to a Canberra-based think tank that has examined the sites using a new satellite measuring tool offering granularity past the self reporting required of emitters under Australian law.
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Energy emissions will peak in 2024, but Paris goals still out of reach -report

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-10-09 22:51
Global energy-related emissions will likely peak in 2024 and start a sustained decline for the first time since the industrial revolution, a new report has revealed.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-10-09 21:54
European carbon allowances rebounded on Wednesday as they looked to snap three consecutive loss-making sessions, eyeing key technical levels to the upside even as TTF gas prices continued to correct lower, while investment funds raised their net short position to the highest level since March.
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