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Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) registry Isometric launched on Monday, with the first batch of credits issued to members of the Frontier buyers' club.

The UK government will soon begin a public consultation on how best to include maritime emissions in the scope of the UK ETS, a senior official said on Monday, without indicating when the government would respond to recently completed consultations on other potential changes to the country’s stand-alone carbon market.

Africa's voluntary carbon market needs technology transfer from the Global North to keep up with increasingly demanding carbon credit methodologies and to demonstrate integrity, a Ghanaian advisor to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told Carbon Pulse Thursday on the sidelines of the IMF Spring Meetings in Washington DC.

Record output of renewable energy pushed prices down across the main grid in the first quarter, with the exception of the most coal dependent state grid.

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The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) has released a set of standardised guidelines to develop biodiversity monitoring programmes in Protected Areas (PAs) and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) worldwide, providing a snapshot of the most advanced tools and technologies.

A Polish cement plant is advancing plans for the large-scale installation of carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology at its facilities. 

Demand for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Europe is likely to reach its peak this year due to structural demand reduction and decarbonisation policies, the EU’s energy regulators have said, adding to downward pressure on carbon prices in the short term.

A European business network and a US-headquartered conservation NGO have kickstarted an initiative to foster the integration of biodiversity in corporate decision-making, with nine corporations joining the programme ahead of its general launch next year.

Carbon prices in Europe began the week on a sharply bearish note in line with wider energy markets, encouraging traders to build additional short positions but also highlighting the degree to which EUAs and UKAs are being driven by fluctuations in natural gas.

Historic hearing will receive submissions from people whose human rights have been affected by climate change

Julian Medina comes from a long line of fishers in the north of Colombia’s Gulf of Morrosquillo who use small-scale and often traditional methods to catch species such as mackerel, tuna and cojinúa.

Medina went into business as a young man but was drawn back to his roots, and ended up leading a fishing organisation. For years he has campaigned against the encroachment of fossil fuel companies, pollution and overfishing, which are destroying the gulf’s delicate ecosystem and people’s livelihoods.

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A European operator of LNG terminals is looking to expand into CO2 and ammonia processing as it seeks to capitalise on new sources of income in the energy transition.

Seventeen banks globally have joined calls for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty to end the use of fossil fuels and have called on the financial industry to follow their example.

Paraguay's new voluntary carbon market law will help the country monetise its natural parks, a top minister told the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC, after changes to the additionality section in the law’s first draft appeared to expand the lands eligible for carbon projects.

The European Space Agency's latest intake of astronauts complete their basic training.

We should rethink the way we charge consumers to use the grid.

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A partnership led by the government of Mongolia and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has raised $198 million in commitments towards conservation and sustainable communities, with similar initiatives in up to 20 other countries in the pipeline.

How do you approve a wind farm that is already being built? Enel Green Power has found a way with its Flat Rocks project in WA.

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A Tokyo-listed engineering consultancy has teamed up with a climate tech firm to secure credits from nature-based solutions (NbS) around the world through early investments.

Public companies are well ahead of their private counterparts when it comes to setting emissions reduction targets and net zero pledges, with a far larger proportion of the latter yet to make any, according to a report released Monday.

Overseas firms sending key goods to UK would have to show they were paying for emissions or face CBAM

Ministers are under growing pressure to firm up plans for a green levy on imports to the UK before the general election campaign.

The government is consulting on plans to introduce a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) from 2027. Under the system, overseas companies wishing to export key goods to the UK would have to show they were paying for their carbon emissions, or face a levy equivalent to the price paid for carbon by UK manufacturers.

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