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Commodity trading platform Nodal Exchange and environmental products developer IncubEx will add CDM credits with different vintage definitions and other novel renewable energy contracts to their upcoming launch of voluntary carbon futures and options products, the companies said Tuesday. 

Australia’s Traditional Owners have survived climate shifts before. Bringing traditional ecological knowledge in contact with western climate scientists could help First Nations survive this one. Karin Gerhardt, PhD student, James Cook University Jon C. Day, PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Larissa Hale, Yuku Baja Muliku Traditional Owner Scott F. Heron, Associate Professor in Physics, James Cook University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A Canada-based carbon investment company on Tuesday announced a deal with developer CoreCarbonX Solutions to generate over 5 million VERs from rice farming water management improvements in the Indian state of Telangana.

Carbon and LNG markets are suffering from poorly designed future contracts that undermine trading and hedging, according to executives from a new commodity exchange that aims to launch several tightly defined voluntary carbon futures, alongside three LNG contracts, by the end of the year.

Discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions

There are plenty of fish in the sea, but “ugly” fish deserve love too, according to a study.

The reef fish people rate as most aesthetically pleasing are also the ones that seem to need the least conservation support, while the fish most likely to rank as “ugly” are the most endangered species, the research has found.

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Lord mayor says residents should make green choices but tenant’s union says onus should be on owners and government

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Sydney’s lord mayor, Clover Moore, has urged renters and apartment dwellers to do their bit to help the city reach net zero by switching their energy supply to renewable sources.

Moore’s plea comes amid spiralling energy costs and increased pressure on household budgets, with the New South Wales Tenants Union noting while many renters wanted to make green choices, it was not always a simple equation.

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The sooner we shift away from ageing coal and expensive gas, the quicker electricity prices and emissions will fall

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A massive expansion in Australia’s gas production did nothing to make gas cheap for Australian homes and businesses. A decade of propping up ageing coal-fired power stations did nothing to ensure the reliability of our electricity supply. And the Coalition’s so-called “gas trigger” and “big stick” electricity reforms have done nothing to control Australian energy prices. It’s as if everything Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor did was announce things instead of fixing them.

There’s no shortage of coal or gas in Australia, there’s a shortage of generation capacity and the infrastructure to move energy to where it’s needed. Just as the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, Australians have now learned the hard way that the coal trains don’t always run and the coal-fired power stations often break down.

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Wildlife photographer Charles Davis has been photographing nature for more than a decade. Budgerigars can usually be seen in flocks of about 100 birds, but after rainfall can number in the thousands. Capturing such a gathering was something he had always wanted to do

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Integrated shipping services firm Clarksons has launched a carbon mitigation platform that will allow its clients to purchase VERs from two global offset standards.

Hard-fought compromises on EU ETS reform are at risk of unravelling just a day ahead of crunch European Parliament votes, observer sources told Carbon Pulse on Tuesday, noting that several MEPs are set to break party ranks amid pressure from their home nation industries.

A carbon credit ratings agency has awarded a moderate rating to a forestry project in Paraguay in its latest update.

Bird, named Noble X3C, landed unharmed and made successful first flight three days later

They are known as agile, powerful and rapid flyers. But a young peregrine falcon has undermined the image of its species after an ungainly tumble from a cathedral tower.

Named Noble X3C, the bird is one of four that hatched high on Salisbury Cathedral this spring, and was days away from being big enough to soar gracefully into the Wiltshire sky.

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A young peregrine falcon – one of four that hatched on Salisbury Cathedral this spring – took its first flight into the Wiltshire sky, days after an unsuccessful attempt where it lost its footing and slipped. The tumble was captured on a webcam which focuses on the balcony and has proved a hit with people tuning in to follow the birds’ progress. The falcon, named Noble X3C, took the plunge again on Tuesday and this time managed to stay airborne

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Germany could add waste incinerators and small lignite-fired power plants to its national carbon pricing mechanism (nEHS) that currently covers fuels used for buildings and road transport, media reports suggest.

People working with government on strategy say ambitious plans to tackle nature, climate and health crises have been ditched

The government is expected to water down its upcoming food strategy for England, ignoring the ambitious recommendations proposed in two government-commissioned reports, campaigners say.

The white paper, due later this month, was supposed to be a groundbreaking plan to tackle the nature and climate emergencies in response to eye-catching recommendations urged by the restaurateur Henry Dimbleby in his reports.

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European carbon traded in a relatively narrow range on Tuesday morning as the market waited for signals from Strasbourg where the European Parliament debated the Fit for 55 reform package ahead of votes on Wednesday, while energy markets weakened amid improved natural gas supply.

Edinburgh palaeontologist says smaller mammals are better able to cope with increased temperatures

The climate crisis may lead the human race to shrink in size, as mammals with smaller frames appear better able to deal with rising global temperatures, a leading fossil expert has said.

Prof Steve Brusatte, a palaeontologist at the University of Edinburgh, suggested that the way in which other mammals have previously responded to periods of climate change could offer an insight into humans’ future.

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The European Parliament’s position on industry concessions under the EU ETS remains in the balance on the eve of a mammoth series of votes on eight climate policy bills, after the biggest political group introduced a last-minute amendment that could substantially ease carbon costs for big-emitting firms.

Australia-headquartered bank ANZ has hired a new head of commodities in Singapore who comes from a similar role at a rival bank.

Sian Phillips, the sister of the missing journalist Dom Phillips, urges Brazilian authorities to search the routes he used amid fears for the safety of the Briton and Bruno Araújo Pereira, an Indigenous expert he was travelling with. 

'We knew it was a dangerous place but Dom really believed it’s possible to safeguard the nature and the livelihood of the Indigenous people,' says Sian Phillips. 'We are really worried about him and urge the authorities in Brazil to do all they can to search the routes he was following. If anyone can help scale up resources for the search that would be great because time is crucial.'

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