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Blood rushes through its veins and the whale’s enormous body shakes slightly

Blue whales are the largest animal ever to have lived – including the dinosaurs – which also makes them the largest animal ever to have slept. All that sleep! A whole whale’s worth, in vast, cold water, the ocean a closed eye, salty and dark. To watch a whale sleeping is to feel as if they have turned the world around them into sleep, that they are suspended in sleep itself, in the liquid that fills your bones when you turn off the light.

Sperm whales sleep vertically, in groups, suspended impossibly, the way an object might be suspended only in a dream. They look like planets, their orbit suddenly stopped. They look as if they could stop time. And maybe they would, if they ever slept for longer than 20 minutes, or closed both eyes.

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In joint statement companies say they are ‘ready to seize opportunity’ of decarbonisation and call on others to join them

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Some of Australia’s biggest heavy industrial companies – including BHP, Bluescope, Rio Tinto and Woodside – say urgent action is needed from government, investors and business for Australia to cut greenhouse gas emissions in line with its goal of limiting global heating to 1.5C.

A joint statement signed by 17 members of the Australian Industry Energy Transitions Initiative (ETI) follows their support for a report in February that found they could cut direct emissions in their supply chains by more than 90% by 2050 without relying heavily on carbon offsets.

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European carbon surged to its highest in more than two weeks on Monday amid rocketing oil prices and as the market awaited the annual publication of verified emissions data by the European Commission.

Verified emissions from stationary installations in the EU ETS fell by 1.2% in 2022, analysts at ICIS estimated based on preliminary but incomplete data published by the European Commission on Monday.

There is no indication that global stock markets have priced in risk from corporate biodiversity footprints in recent years, but that has begun to change after the high-profile UN summits in Kunming and Montreal, a study has found.

The UK has published an update to its green finance strategy as well as a nature markets framework stating the intention to pilot new finance opportunities that may include biodiversity crediting.

Regulator announces two-year plan in victory for campaigners pushing to clean up England’s rivers

More than £1.6bn is to be invested by water companies in England in the next two years, the regulator, Ofwat, has announced, in a victory for campaigners pushing to clean up rivers.

The investment by water companies has been brought forward to speed up projects to tackle pollution and drought.

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This role requires a “People Person” to work directly with Primary Producers to source and develop successful carbon farming projects under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).

If any anger is justified, it should be directed at those who create our throwaway culture and make people’s lives a misery

Rubbish seems to be everywhere you look. As one of the leaders of a community wetlands group in north-west London, I’ve witnessed a cormorant diving into a bobbing flotilla of plastic, shores made up of plastic and a heron starving to death due to red nylon tangled around its beak.

Last month, a new disease caused solely by plastics was discovered in seabirds. And in February, our group, Friends of the Welsh Harp, removed four tonnes of rubbish from a river and the surrounding woodland. Our rivers are not only open sewers, they’re also open dustbins that lead to the sea.

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Carbon offsets are not the solution to climate change, nor should they be the central pillar of any country or government’s net zero plans. But they are very important in the short and medium term because many emissions that cannot be reduced away can be offset, taking that damaging CO2 back out of the atmosphere, writes Ed Mitchard, chief scientist at UK-headquartered nature tech firm Space Intelligence.

A range of available flexibility technologies can help China's power system accommodate the uptake of renewable generation, though more supporting policies are needed to create the conditions for such technologies to compete against coal power, according to analysts.

Footage of unknown snailfish captured by researchers from Western Australia and Tokyo in Izu-Ogasawara trench

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Scientists have captured footage of a fish swimming more than 8km underwater, setting a new record for the deepest fish ever recorded.

The animal, an unknown snailfish species belonging to the genus Pseudoliparis, was filmed at a depth of 8,336 metres in the Izu-Ogasawara trench, south-east of Japan.

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NatureCo has multiple roles available for Carbon Project Officers at different levels of experience from junior through to senior.

Total traded volumes of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) rose significantly over the past week as the government successfully passed its Safeguard Mechanism reforms through parliament, while the Clean Energy Regulator has warned of timeline blowouts on accrediting human-induced regeneration (HIR) projects.

Petroleum emissions are set to overtake those from electricity and gas combined, as transport becomes Australia's newest climate embarrassment.

The post Petrol is the new coal, as roadtrips and Bali holidays push up emissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Based in our Sydney Carbon Team, the Executive Director role in carbon is both diverse and challenging and will include engagement with external clients as well as key internal stakeholders with a focus on originating and executing successful carbon projects.

Based in our Sydney Dealing Room, the Associate Director or Director role in Carbon is both diverse and challenging and will include engagement with key stakeholders internal as well as external with a focus on carbon market demand and risk management.

The successful candidate will work closely with Australian domiciled clients and beyond, where you will build new strategic relationships.

The sodium-sulfur battery, topped with solar panels and offering just under six hours of storage capacity, is being tested at a remote WA mine site.

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The Senior Officer will lead the overall management of the Mobilizing Article 6 Trading Structures (MATS) Program as well as provide technical expertise to several programs that include carbon outputs managed by our country teams.