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Agricultural companies short on board-level biodiversity expertise, expert says

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 19:23
Not enough companies linked to the agricultural supply chain have board-level expertise in biodiversity, despite the surge in nature commitments, according to an executive at Morningstar Sustainalytics.
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COP partnership seen to open up for climate opportunities for Australia, Brazil

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 17:27
Opportunities for closer cooperation on natural capital, decarbonisation, and carbon markets between Australia and Brazil could be on the horizon if the latter is successful at securing its bid to host COP31 in 2026, panellists told an event Friday.
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New research reveals why the mighty Darling River is drying up – and it’s not just because we’re taking too much water

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-09-30 17:04
Less rain will fall in the Darling River catchment as climate change worsens. This fact must be central to decisions about how much water can be taken from the system. Milton Speer, Visiting Fellow, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Lance M Leslie, Professor, School of Mathematical And Physical Sciences, University of Technology Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Calls for flood compensation scheme in England and Wales to be overhauled

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-30 16:00

New figures show nearly 80% of businesses in some parts of England have been denied support

Ministers are being urged to overhaul the “nightmare” compensation scheme for flood victims after it emerged that nearly 80% of businesses in some parts of England had been denied support.

After heavy downpours caused chaos across much of England and Wales this week, new figures laid bare the “opaque” and inconsistent level of help available to those whose properties lay in ruin.

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Scientists criticise UN agency’s failure to withdraw livestock emissions report

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-30 15:00

Academics say there has been no serious response from FAO to their complaints of ‘serious distortions’ in report

More than 20 scientific experts have written to the UN’s food agency expressing shock at its failure to revise or withdraw a livestock emissions report that two of its cited academics have said contained “multiple and egregious errors”.

The alleged inaccuracies are understood to have downplayed the potential of dietary change to reduce agricultural greenhouse gases, which make up about a quarter of total anthropogenic emissions and mostly derive from livestock.

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SpaceX docks at ISS to collect stranded astronauts

BBC - Mon, 2024-09-30 11:43
The craft will return Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams - stranded since June - to Earth.
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‘Vegetarian’ possums eat meat when the weather’s cold

The Conversation - Mon, 2024-09-30 06:27
In Australia, people tend to think carnivores lead the clean-up crew after an animal dies. But brushtail possums – thought to be plant-eaters – also eat carcasses. Patrick Finnerty, Postdoctoral research fellow in conservation, University of Sydney Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor in Global Ecology, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Ancient log discovery points to wood burial as durable, low-cost carbon removal solution

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 02:34
The discovery of a 3,775-year-old perfectly preserved log has led scientists to believe that burying wood can be a cost-effective, long-term method of removing CO2 from the atmosphere.
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Ex-Shell NBS expert joins Microsoft’s carbon removals team

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 01:47
A nature-based solutions expert has joined Microsoft as program manager of its carbon removals team following seven years at Shell.
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German climate tech firm launches support service for biochar project development

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 01:29
A Germany-based climate tech firm has launched what it called "comprehensive" support services to accelerate biochar CO2 removals (CDR) projects, while also announcing partnerships with two digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) firms.
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Our leaders are collaborators with fossil fuel colonialists. This is the source of our communal dread | Tim Winton

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-30 01:00

The lassitude that distinguishes our moment is born of sorrow and buried rage. We act like colonial subjects because, in effect, that’s what we are

“Kids these days are such snowflakes! So flaccid and self-involved, so doomy and anxious. If it’s not the drugs, it’s the screen time, right? I mean, what’s their problem?”

I try to sidestep conversations like these. Engaging saps so much time and energy. But avoiding them leaves me feeling dirty. Not because I’ve foregone an opportunity to win an argument, but because I know I’ve failed to defend those who need and deserve my solidarity.

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Melting glaciers force Switzerland and Italy to redraw part of Alpine border

The Guardian - Mon, 2024-09-30 00:28

Two countries agree to modifications beneath Matterhorn peak, one of Europe’s highest summits

Switzerland and Italy have redrawn a border that traverses an Alpine peak as melting glaciers shift the historically defined frontier.

The two countries agreed to the modifications beneath the Matterhorn, one of the highest mountains in Europe, which straddles Switzerland’s Zermatt region and Italy’s Aosta valley.

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Voluntary biodiversity market nascent, uncertain, but growing report finds

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-09-30 00:01
A report surveying global biodiversity credit suppliers has found the market is still very much in the embryonic stage, with the demand question yet to be full answered, however there are signs of growing interest. 
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