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Climate advocacy group warns EU ETS2 may lead to political disaster
Indian firms partner to launch biochar carbon credit platform
Researchers urge standardisation across UN, VCM forest carbon crediting methodologies
RWE posts 2% increase in EU fossil fuel generation over first quarter
Germany faces limited marine carbon removal options for net zero target -report
Nature-related finance needs to change Indigenous engagement, UNEP FI says
India launches green hydrogen certification scheme, inks deals with Japan, Singapore
BioCarbon lists second project under biodiversity credit programme
Commercial nuclear fusion in sight as landmark project completes heart of new reactor
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Tony Blair risks sending absolutely wrong message, say climate experts
Former PM also sparks Labour fury, with top MP accusing him of ‘handing talking points’ to Tories and Reform
Climate experts and politicians have criticised Tony Blair for claiming that any strategy that relied on rapidly phasing out fossil fuels was “doomed to fail”.
The former prime minister’s comments, published in a report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI), prompted an internal row in Labour, with some accusing him of playing into the hands of a narrative used by rightwing parties to delay climate action.
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Chicken megafarm in Shropshire must not be built, clean river group tells court
‘Huge volumes of chicken muck’ entering rivers are harmful to fish and plants, campaigners argue at Cardiff high court
Clean river campaigners have told a court that planning permission for a poultry megafarm in Shropshire is unlawful and should be overturned.
In the high court in Cardiff on Wednesday, Dr Alison Caffyn argued that the council had failed to take into account all the environmental impacts of the industrial chicken units, which will house 230,000 birds at any one time, in particular the effects of spreading manure on land.
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Indigenous Peoples rights violated in hydropower projects across Nepal, report finds
EU gas, LNG imports fall in Q1 on lower demand
Scientists hope sequencing genome of tiny ‘functionally extinct’ frog could help save it
Corroboree frog belongs to 100m-year-old family of amphibians but is now found only in the puddles and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park
Scientists have sequenced the genome of the critically endangered southern corroboree frog – one of Australia’s most threatened amphibians – in hope that the information could be used to aid its recovery.
The striking alpine frog, which has distinctive yellow and black markings, is so threatened by disease and the drying of its habitat due to climate change, that it is considered “functionally extinct”. The species survives in the temporary pools and peat bogs of Kosciuszko national park in New South Wales, with the help of zoo breeding and re-introduction programs.
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