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Four kids left: The Thai school swallowed by the sea – video

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-15 20:47

Ban Khun Samut Chin, a coastal village in Samut Prakan province, Thailand, has been slowly swallowed by the sea over the past few decades. This has led to the relocation of the school and many homes, resulting in a dwindling population. Currently, there are only four students attending the school, often leaving just one in each classroom. The village has experienced severe coastal erosion, causing 1.1-2km (0.5-1.2 miles) of shoreline to disappear since the mid-1950s

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PepsiCo partners with Canadian group to support biodiversity improvement in farms

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 20:42
PepsiCo has teamed up with a Canadian conservation charity to provide financial incentives for producers committed to improving biodiversity on their lands.
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‘Over-protection and over-regulation’: Think tank issues scathing criticism of EU Green Claims Directive

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 20:12
With the Green Claims Directive, EU legislators seem to be mistakenly seeking to regulate the voluntary carbon market rather than laying down rules for companies to communicate their green credentials to consumers, according to a leading climate think tank.
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Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-15 20:00

Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing

A herd of 170 bison reintroduced to Romania’s Țarcu mountains could help store CO2 emissions equivalent to removing almost 2m cars from the road for a year, research has found, demonstrating how the animals help mitigate the worst effects of the climate crisis.

European bison disappeared from Romania more than 200 years ago, but Rewilding Europe and WWF Romania reintroduced the species to the southern Carpathian mountains in 2014. Since then, more than 100 bison have been given new homes in the Țarcu mountains, growing to more than 170 animals today, one of the largest free-roaming populations in Europe. The landscape holds the potential for 350-450 bison.

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Indonesia expands CCS plans with US, Korean oil giants

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 19:48
Indonesia is expanding its carbon capture and storage (CCS) plans after its state oil company signed an agreement with US oil giant ExxonMobil and South Korea’s KNOC, while the former two also signed another agreement to develop a CCS ‘hub’ in the Sunda and Asri basins.
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Voluntary carbon standard releases methodology to credit electrification in shipping

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 18:42
A large voluntary carbon credit issuing body has released a methodology crediting the electrification of energy supply for ships when shore-side or offshore, active from Wednesday.
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Japanese developer partners with government-backed agricultural organisation on rice projects

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 18:21
A Japanese carbon project developer has partnered with a regional government-backed agricultural organisation to promote credit-generating rice projects, as it seeks to broaden its presence in Vietnam's voluntary market.
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Asian carbon project developers caught between evolving regulations and updating methodologies, conference hears 

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 16:00
Voluntary carbon project developers are struggling to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of new methodology updates and emerging government regulations in Asia, participants told a conference this week.
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State-owned oil major determined to make Malaysia regional CCS hub

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 15:40
Malaysian oil and energy company Petronas intends to provide solutions to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors and establish the Southeast Asian nation as the regional hub for carbon capture and storage (CCS), it told a conference this week.
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MPs and peers urge Sunak to U-turn on oil and gas extraction plans

The Guardian - Wed, 2024-05-15 15:00

Cross-party group of 50 calls on prime minister to appoint climate envoy and back Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance

A cross-party group of MPs and peers has urged Rishi Sunak to make a U-turn on his oil and gas extraction plans as part of a broader plea to increase efforts to address the climate crisis.

The 50 politicians, including three Conservatives, wrote to the prime minister calling for the UK to regain its international leadership on the crisis by ending the licensing of new oil and gas fields, appointing a climate envoy, and backing the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance.

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Two-thirds of us support banning pet cats from roaming. A ban would save millions of native animals – and billions of dollars

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-05-15 14:51
Most Australians don’t need to be persuaded of the benefits of rules that require owners to stop their pet cats roaming outside their properties. Only 8% of those surveyed were against this policy. Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow, Charles Darwin University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Environment groups lash Australian govt’s lack of cash for nature in latest budget

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 14:27
Australia’s 2024 budget arrived late Tuesday delivering a A$9.3 billion ($6.1 bln) surplus and is spending big to drive mining and clean energy, but has been attacked for its lack of attention to the protection of nature despite cash of over A$300 million offered.
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Advisors call on Oregon to clarify offset use, credit eligibility in climate protection scheme

Carbon Pulse - Wed, 2024-05-15 13:06
Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) must address existing ambiguity surrounding compliance instruments under the Climate Protection Program (CPP), including the use of offset projects, as well as a new emissions cap, an advisory committee told the agency Tuesday.
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UK right to protect puffins threatened post Brexit

BBC - Wed, 2024-05-15 12:46
The endangered puffin - one of Britain’s most iconic seabirds - is at the centre of a battle over the UK’s post Brexit freedoms.
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New Zealanders have had their say on climate adaptation: here’s where we agree and disagree

The Conversation - Wed, 2024-05-15 12:36
New research has mapped public submissions to the National Adaptation Plan. With a cross-party inquiry getting under way, four imagined futures are emerging that present a way forward. Raven Cretney, Postdoctoral Fellow, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Christina Hanna, Lecturer, Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Iain White, Professor of Environmental Planning, University of Waikato Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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