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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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EU agriculture ministers support state aid to help farmers facing climate impacts

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 08:14
The EU should allow its member states to amplify state aid as a response to the impacts of climate change on farmers' businesses, according to most of the bloc's agriculture ministers.
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RGGI Market: RGAs breach $21 on highest weekly volumes of year

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 08:06
A spate of strong compliance demand pushed RGGI allowance (RGA) prices to new record levels last week, traders said, as the market notched its highest weekly volumes of 2024.
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Should Australia go nuclear? Why Peter Dutton's plan could be an atomic failure – video

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 07:46

Year in, year out, there's a good chance someone in politics has suggested nuclear power as an answer to Australia's energy problems. Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley explains why. Modern-day nuclear energy is climate friendly compared with coal and gas. But going nuclear isn't practical for Australia – and it's an idea that's more than likely coming directly from the Coalition's 'delaying action on climate change' handbook

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EU Green Deal and competitiveness go hand-in-hand, Commission boss von der Leyen says in candidate debate

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 07:01
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sought to frame climate action and economic competitiveness as inextricably linked, in a debate on Monday with rival candidates for the EU executive body's next leader.
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It’s time to strike an environmental grand bargain between businesses, governments and conservationists – and stop doing things the hard way

The Conversation - Tue, 2024-04-30 06:04
It shouldn’t take sustained public outrage to stop environmentally destructive projects. Nature positive offers us a way forward. Peter Burnett, Honorary Associate Professor, ANU College of Law, Australian National University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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More than 90% of marine animals caught in NSW shark nets over summer were non-target species

The Guardian - Tue, 2024-04-30 04:00

Exclusive: New documents reveal NSW government division over controversial program as data reveals death toll

More than 90% of marine animals caught in shark nets off New South Wales beaches over the summer were non-target species, with new documents revealing division within the government over the controversial program.

More than half of the 208 non-target species – such as turtles, dolphins and smaller sharks – that were caught in the nets over the past eight months were killed, data obtained by conservationists show.

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Voluntary carbon standard publishes revisions after being denied full eligibility for CORSIA

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 03:44
Gold Standard has published clarifications and procedural revisions to boost its chances of supplying voluntary carbon credits for Phase 1 of CORSIA, the UN international aviation offsetting scheme. 
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VCM Report: Rumble in Rimba Raya distracts voluntary carbon market at time of reasonable liquidity, renewed buying interest

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 02:48
Grim news about the Rimba Raya REDD project last week, as well as signs that corporates are focusing on cheap voluntary carbon credits, undermined a more upbeat tone for the market, fuelled by decent liquidity and stronger buying interest.
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Malawi, battling extreme poverty and debt, turns to carbon markets to secure forex

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 02:43
One of the world’s poorest, most indebted, and most climate-vulnerable countries is turning to carbon markets to secure foreign exchange, as countries prepare to debate a new climate finance target amid crushing debt burdens at the COP29 UN climate conference this autumn.
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Global business association highlights “severe” challenges with EU CBAM

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:42
The world’s largest business association has written to the European Commission’s director general for taxation and customs union to call attention to the “severe” challenges companies have faced in complying with the first reporting period of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
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UK corporate decarbonisation slows by one-third in 2023, jeopardising net zero goals -report

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:37
The rate of decarbonisation across UK businesses decelerated significantly last year, posing a potential setback to achieving net zero goals, finds a new report.
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EU steel association revises down 2024 outlook on sluggish demand

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:33
EU steel association Eurofer has lowered its 2024 consumption forecast for the 27-nation bloc, citing worsening geopolitical tensions, growing economic uncertainty, high energy prices, inflation, and interest rates as factors that are adversely affecting demand.
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EU Commission calls out two member states for insufficient climate plans

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 01:15
The European Commission has called on two EU states to raise their climate ambitions in line with the agreed targets for 2030, in an assessment of the draft updated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) published on Friday.
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G7 nations agree to phase out domestic coal by 2035

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 00:27
Ministers from the G7 nations agreed on Monday to shut down coal plants by 2035, British Minister for Renewable and Nuclear Energy Andrew Bowie said following a meeting in Italy.
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Scottish govt’s collapse over scrapped climate targets represents warning for policymakers

Carbon Pulse - Tue, 2024-04-30 00:20
The Scottish government's collapse on the heels of a shelved emission target highlights the need for policymakers to back their targets with concrete action in the near term - or risk losing public backing both from supporters and opponents of climate action, according to analysts.
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Countries failed to report on half of commitments under pre-2020 biodiversity targets

Carbon Pulse - Mon, 2024-04-29 22:41
Nearly half of countries' policy pledges for nature made in the National Biodiversity Strategies and Actions Plans (NBSAPs) before 2020 were not supported by evidence of actions taken by governments, a paper has revealed, sounding the alarm over the reporting gaps ahead of this year's COP16 UN biodiversity summit.
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