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Chevron-backed “alternative” European energy and carbon trading platform closes Series B financing round
Cop15 is an opportunity to save nature. We can’t afford another decade of failure | Phoebe Weston
Ahead of the UN biodiversity conference, our reporter reflects on lessons of hope and change in three years reporting with the Guardian’s age of extinction team
Saying you’re a biodiversity reporter doesn’t mean much to a lot of people. “What do you actually write about?” they ask. And this is exactly why there should be more journalists on this beat. The nature crisis continues to fly under the radar.
In 1992, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, there was a wave of enthusiasm about tackling the great environmental problems, and so governments set up three UN conventions to deal with climate change, biodiversity loss and desertification. Since then, the climate crisis has been treated as separate to the biodiversity crisis, yet there is huge overlap between the two.
Continue reading...Prince Harry wildlife NGO under fire after elephants kill three in Malawi
African Parks, of which the prince is president, is one of three parties accused of rushing a mass translocation of the mammals
Two wildlife organisations, including one headed by Prince Harry, have been accused of caring about animals more than people after three men died following an elephant translocation in Malawi.
In July, more than 250 elephants were moved from Liwonde national park in southern Malawi to the country’s second-largest protected area, Kasungu, in a three-way operation between Malawi’s national park service and the NGOs African Parks and the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw).
Continue reading...Environment Agency knew sewage was being dumped into rivers years ago, leak reveals
Exclusive: Revelation comes after agency’s chair told MPs in May the practice had only recently come to light
The Environment Agency knew raw sewage was being illegally dumped into English rivers from wastewater treatment works a decade ago, a leaked report shows.
However, the agency’s chair told MPs in May that the practice had only recently come to light.
Continue reading...British Gas latest firm to be found offsetting with old, dodgy carbon credits
Eurasian Beaver now legally protected in England
Sleeping in barns - homeless in the countryside
Emitters and speculators pare back CCA holdings while financials’ RGGI net length approaches 1 mln
California carbon market reaches record number of participants in Q3 amid heightened speculative interest
PREVIEW: In Brazil elections, fate of carbon markets hangs in the balance
Slave traders’ names are still stamped on native plants. It’s time to ‘decolonise’ Australia’s public gardens | Brett Summerell
For too long we’ve dismissed Indigenous knowledge of the natural world. At Sydney’s botanic garden, signage is starting to reflect Aboriginal names
Like all botanic gardens, the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney is a classic artefact of the activities that took place during the colonisation of Australia in the 18th and 19th century.
It was established to create a patch of landscape that mirrored those found in the United Kingdom, with the aim of “discovering” and documenting the floral biodiversity of New South Wales (in itself a name reflecting the perspective of those holding power).
Continue reading...Finnish report flags gaps in EU law on domestic offsetting
Voluntary carbon investor in 2.5-mln credit deal with rice farming project
REDD credits seen offered $5 cheaper than CCB-certified equivalents
EU energy ministers seal emergency package, energy-hungry states seek gas price range
Quinbrook bags huge profit on sale of US wind, solar and battery company
Australia's Quinbrook has locked in big profits from the sale of a US wind, solar and storage company it bought as a start-up five years ago.
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European buyers ask for VCM offset prices in euros amid dollar strength
Airlines top list of total voluntary carbon credit retirements -analysts
'Shark' spotted swimming in flooded Florida neighbourhood – video
Photos and videos of sharks and other marine life swimming in suburban flood waters make for popular hoaxes during heavy storms. But a mobile phone video filmed during Hurricane Ian’s assault on south-west Florida isn’t just another fishy story.
A large, dark fish with distinct dorsal fins was filmed thrashing around an inundated Fort Myers backyard. Experts were divided over whether the clip showed a shark or another large fish. Nevertheless, some Twitter users nicknamed the hapless fish the 'street shark'
‘Superhero’ moss can save communities from flooding, say scientists
Sphagnum moss found to drastically slow down rainwater runoff in Peak District ‘outdoor laboratory’ study
A “superhero” moss can significantly reduce the risk and severity of flooding for communities living in downstream areas, researchers have found.
Scientists from the conservation group Moors for the Future Partnership who conducted a six-year study into sphagnum moss found that planting it in upland areas could dramatically slow the rate at which water runs off the hillsides, preventing river catchments being inundated with water downstream.
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