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Reading desert sands – Indigenous wildlife tracking skills underpin vast monitoring project

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-09-27 06:18
Footprints, droppings, diggings and other signs left behind by animals reveal a lot to a skilled observer. Indigenous knowledge feeds into one of Australia’s largest wildlife monitoring endeavours. Sarah Legge, Professor of Wildlife Conservation, Australian National University Braedan Taylor, Traditional Owner; Karajarri Lands Trust Association/UWA, Indigenous Knowledge Jaana Dielenberg, University Fellow in Biodiversity, Charles Darwin University Pius Gregory, Yawuru Traditional Owner; Kimberley Biocultural Conservation Specialist at WWF-Australia's Broome office, Indigenous Knowledge Rachel Paltridge, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ecology, The University of Western Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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EU CBAM transition period not long enough for Western Balkan power exporters to comply, says expert

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 03:15
The transition period for the implementation of CBAM, which runs until 2026, is not long enough for Western Balkan electricity traders to devise new export strategies to the EU, even if the Commission changes its criteria to make it easier for low-carbon exporters to be recognised, according to an expert on the matter.
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CWNYC24: “Good riddance” to buyers who won’t pay for integrity, says tech giant

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 02:30
Voluntary carbon market (VCM) stakeholders should welcome the retreat of buyers who will not pay a premium for high-integrity credits, a large tech buyer said at Climate Week NYC on Thursday.
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BRIEFING: Ease grid, planning constraints to turbocharge UK onshore wind

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 02:14
Rolling out onshore wind in the UK fast enough to achieve net zero requires unlocking grid and planning constraints, motivating local communities, and prioritising farms for the windiest areas, experts said Thursday.
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Video shows explosion in London refuse truck after combustible items put in bin

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-09-27 01:52

Footage shows bin and debris fired into street after items wrongly placed in residential bin were crushed

A crew of refuse workers in north London narrowly escaped injury when combustible items that had been packed into a bin exploded after being loaded into a refuse truck.

Footage shows the moment of the explosion, caused after combustible items such as batteries, aerosol or gas canisters were wrongly placed into a residential bin.

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CWNYC24: African govt alliance forged to generate ITMO credits from large carbon reforestation project

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 01:52
Eleven African countries have forged a new alliance to generate ITMO credits from a large reforestation and conservation carbon project.
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Scope of EU ETS expected to broaden out from 2026 -report

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 01:31
In the coming years, the EU's Emissions Trading System could incorporate new sectors and be extended to neighbouring countries like Ukraine or tied up with the UK, according to research published on Thursday.
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Old divisions resurface as EU debates green industrial future

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-27 01:23
Germany rebuffed calls on Thursday to issue new joint EU debt as a way to finance the green and digital transitions, rejecting one of the key tenets of a report by former central banker Mario Draghi to restore the bloc's competitiveness.
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Buyers pay premium for voluntary carbon credits linked to SDG claims -report

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 23:41
Buyers are willing to pay more for voluntary carbon credits from projects that contribute towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to new research.
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INTERVIEW: Carbon taxes ‘work well in the power sector’, but not elsewhere

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 23:40
Outside of the power sector, carbon taxes are largely ineffective at driving decarbonisation when implemented on their own, according to an academic interviewed by Carbon Pulse.
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Recycling rate falls in UK as just 44% of household waste is recycled

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-09-26 23:31

England’s recycling rate decreased in 2022 as rest of UK improved but country still lags behind Europe

Just 44% of UK household waste is being recycled, government statistics show, as the recycling rate in England is going down instead of improving.

The UK recycling rate for waste from households was 44.1% in 2022, the latest year the government had data for, down from 44.6% in 2021.

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Chilean govt spearheads high sea protection initiative

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 22:35
The government of Chile has kickstarted an initiative aimed at ramping up ocean protection efforts, as discussions over the need to hasten the implementation of the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) treaty have taken centre stage at the UN headquarters this week.
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Colombia tops the list of most attractive country to invest in carbon, finds index

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 21:45
Colombia, Kenya, Cambodia, Mexico, and Peru are the top five most attractive countries for investors in carbon credits, according to an updated index.
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Guyana launches global alliance with biodiversity credits focus

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 21:28
Guyana has launched a global alliance that will host a summit next year focused on starting a biodiversity credits market, among other forms of innovative financing.
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Euro Markets: Midday Update

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 21:17
European carbon fell back on Thursday morning, reversing some of the gains made during Wednesday's rally due to a downward correction in TTF gas prices, as technical analysts also pointed to a more bullish outlook for the Dec-24 after it breached a key resistance level during the previous session, while UKAs shed as much as 5% on a one-year extension proposed by the government to the current free allocation period.
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Voluntary carbon ratings agency offers network service to help buyers find the right credits

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 21:00
A rating agency has launched a network service to help buyers find and purchase voluntary carbon credits across various project stages, including pre-issuance, it announced Thursday.
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China’s Chongqing introduces incentive mechanism for local ETS

Carbon Pulse - Thu, 2024-09-26 20:08
China's Chongqing has introduced an incentive mechanism to encourage companies regulated by the local emissions trading system to take more climate actions, as it released the 2023 allocation plan for the scheme.
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Great news, everybody! We’re about to be over-run by giant spiders | Nell Frizzell

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-09-26 20:00

It’s that time of year when homes fill with hairy eight-legged monsters. At least they keep the flies under control …

It is giant spider season and I am delighted. As someone who is ravaged by flying insects all summer, I welcome these eight-legged death machines into my home with open arms. Speckle-backed Tegeneria? Be my guest! I would far rather something that looks like an animated tomato stalk occasionally scuttled across my curtain than be beset by a swarm of fruit flies, bluebottles or midges. I have even heard that spiders might eat clothes moths, although I think for them to have a significant impact on numbers I would have to lean even further into my Miss Havisham alter ego and stroll around bedecked by webs.

I wasn’t always this way. As a child, I was as terrified of spiders as I am today by droughts and unfiled tax returns. I would watch in amazed horror as my country-born mother picked up arachnids the size and heft of dogs and calmly threw them out the window. There were whole cupboards I refused to open for fear of spiders. Once, after accidentally walking into a web during a game of hide and seek, I actually vomited at the thought of a spider being close to my skin (they found me quite quickly after that).

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Britain’s tropical rain and parched Amazon are new norms in a messed-up climate | Jonathan Watts

The Guardian - Thu, 2024-09-26 19:57

On my return to the UK from Brazil I’ve seen how northern latitudes are behaving like the equatorial margins

Returning to British suburbia from the Brazilian Amazon is always disconcerting, but it has been doubly weird in the past few days because the London commuter belt has been inundated with volumes of rain that normally belong in the tropics.

Mini-tornadoes, flash floods and the dumping of a month’s worth of rain in a single day have flooded transport hubs, high street pubs, and the shrubs of semidetached homes.

Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!

It isn’t fit for humans now,

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