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WCI Markets: CCAs gain ground amidst hushed market activity, wait for programme clarity

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 11:09
California Carbon Allowance (CCA) prices increased over the past week amidst a dearth of activity as market participants await a rulemaking package from regulator ARB.
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California’s LCFS changes would create decarbonisation ‘obstacles,’ ethanol producer says

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 09:53
Ethanol producer POET publicly criticised proposed changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Tuesday when the producer’s senior attorney told a California ARB division chief that the changes would introduce “obstacles” to practical decarbonisation pathways.
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Nova Scotia Liberals attempt to bring back cap-and-trade programme

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 08:42
The former premier of Nova Scotia introduced a bill that would re-install a provincial cap-and-trade programme, eying an end to the province’s compliance with the federal carbon levy.
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Canada succeeds to lower CO2 emissions in 2023 during economic growth –report

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 08:25
An independent estimate of Canada’s national emissions in 2023, published Thursday, showed a modest decline, relative to the year prior.
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California gasoline consumption declines at slower pace in June as diesel sales hit year high

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 06:45
California gasoline consumption continued its year-over-year decline -albeit at a slower pace - in June while diesel sales reached their highest levels of the year, state data published this week showed.
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Scientists reviewed 7,000 studies on microplastics. Their alarming conclusion puts humanity on notice

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-09-20 06:36
Global action is urgently needed to tackle microplastic – and the problem has never been more pressing. Karen Raubenheimer, Senior Lecturer, University of Wollongong Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Endure – or peter out? Here’s what Northern Rivers organisers and Stop Adani can teach us about building climate groups

The Conversation - Fri, 2024-09-20 06:35
Organising to stop gasfields or coal mines sounds like a similar challenge. But one environmental group has endured, while the other ran out of energy. Here’s why Amanda Tattersall, Associate Professor in Urban Geography and Host of ChangeMakers Podcast, University of Sydney Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.
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Bolivia moves to centralise newly legal voluntary carbon market -media

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 05:05
Bolivia is preparing a presidential decree that would require domestic carbon projects to transfer their credit issuances to the central government, as per national media this week.
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More federal cash needed for research before marine CDR can scale in the US, Congress hears

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 04:32
A ramp up in federal funding is needed to boost research and development into the nascent marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) industry that will require robust public-private partnerships to scale and become commercial, a congressional committee heard Thursday.
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BRIEFING: Experts confident of voluntary carbon market recovery, but not in 2024

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 02:51
Experts have said that they are confident the necessary factors for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) to recover are in place – but that this may not take place for some time.
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EU, US beginning to see eye-to-eye on Article 6 standards, says bloc’s lead negotiator

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 02:31
The US is beginning to cede ground in long-running negotiations over Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, showing flexibility on the EU’s demand for strong minimum standards to govern international carbon markets, the bloc's chief climate negotiator said on Thursday.
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Taiwan plans emissions trading scheme, eyes initial pilot phase -minister

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 02:25
Taiwan is planning to launch a domestic emissions trading in four years’ time, starting initially with a pilot phase, Environment Minister Peng Chi-ming told local media on Thursday.
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Climate ‘divide and rule’ in new EU Commission might just work, experts say

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 02:22
As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled her new EU executive earlier this week, with climate policies scattered across various portfolios, observers in Brussels seemed willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, saying this configuration may serve the needs of EU citizens and respond to political radicalisation.
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10 children drew their favourite sea creatures. Then Australia’s leading artists responded – in pictures

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-09-20 01:00

Ken Done, Jonathan Zawada, Blak Douglas and more created their own companion pieces to kids’ works celebrating sharks and rays – and they’re on display at the Australian Museum now

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‘Australia’s next rabbit plague’: calls for feral deer in Victoria to be considered a pest instead of wildlife

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-09-20 01:00

Victoria is home to perhaps the largest population and the only mainland state with ‘legislative relic’ of protections

Land holders and managers along with landcare and environment groups want Victoria to remove protections for feral deer, as booming populations wreak havoc on agriculture and the local environment.

Jordan Crook, from the Victorian National Parks Association, said recognising deer as pests – alongside foxes, rabbits and pigs – would bring Victoria in line with the rest of mainland Australia.

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A baby pygmy hippo named Moo Deng: she is all we want to look at | Helen Sullivan

The Guardian - Fri, 2024-09-20 01:00

In West Africa, Pygmy hippos are said to carry a diamond in their mouths, which they use to light their way through the forest

The thing to know about the pygmy hippopotamus named Moo Deng is that she is angry, but also she is sweet. In photographs, she is often blurry and at all times, she is shiny. She secretes something known as “blood sweat” which is actually her sunscreen.

She is a hippopotamidae. She is stout. She runs like a piglet and has a snout like a very, very new puppy’s. She is very fast.

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Google buys first nature-based carbon removal credits from Brazilian project

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 00:54
US tech giant Google will buy 50,000 nature-based removal credits through 2030 from a Brazilian startup, marking the first purchase of its kind from the technology giant, the company announced Thursday.
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CDR credits issuer set to boost monitoring, improve accuracy after fresh finance round

Carbon Pulse - Fri, 2024-09-20 00:14
A provider of carbon removals (CDR) credits has completed an oversubscribed Series A funding round, which will help to bolster its monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) service, add more CDR technologies, and improve its efficiency and accuracy, it announced on Thursday.
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