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Biodiversity Pulse: Thursday December 7, 2023
Canada’s unveils cap-and-trade system for oil and gas emissions
COP28: New initiative urges ships to slow down 25% for biodiversity
US Democrats follow up Republicans with their own CBAM legislation
Rwanda to take share of adjusted carbon credits from projects, rather than proceeds
EU sees increased pressure from landowners to sort out OECMs
COP28: FEATURE – Complaints over unilateral trade measures threaten progress in crucial climate talks
EU’s proposed Net Zero Industry Act moves closer to becoming law
Cop28 protests – in pictures
A record 84,000 people are in attendance at the UN climate summit in Dubai, including thousands of activists and members of civil society
Continue reading...Australia commits $150m to climate finance for vulnerable Pacific countries
However the Albanese government has not contributed to a newly created global loss and damage fund at Cop28
The Australian government has pledged A$150m climate finance for Pacific countries, but has not contributed to a newly created global loss and damage fund.
Nearly 200 countries reached an historic consensus agreement on the first day of the Cop28 climate summit in Dubai to set up the loss and damage fund to help the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries pay for the irreversible impacts of climate disaster.
Continue reading...Australian oilers in mega-merger talks
Australian carbon project developers partner to lead govt-funded nature positive co-op
Alarm at plan to stash planet-heating CO2 beneath US national forests
Groups seek more time to comment on US Forest Service proposal to store carbon dioxide amid fears over safety and impact
A proposal that would allow industries to permanently stash climate-polluting carbon dioxide beneath US Forest Service land puts those habitats and the people in or near them at risk, according to opponents of the measure.
Chief among opponents’ concerns is that carbon dioxide could leak from storage wells or pipelines and injure or kill people and animals, as well as harm the trees in the forests and their habitat, said Victoria Bogdan Tejeda, attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.
Continue reading...We need power to prescribe climate policy, IPCC scientists say
Exclusive: Five IPCC report authors say scientists should be allowed to make policy prescriptions and potentially oversee implementation
Senior climate experts are calling for an overhaul of the structure and powers of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in despair at the slow pace of climate action.
Five lead authors of IPCC reports told the Guardian that scientists should be given the right to make policy prescriptions and, potentially, to oversee their implementation by the 195 states signed up to the UN framework convention on climate change (UNFCCC).
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