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The US Forest Service, responsible for stewardship of public forest acreage, defended its timber targets as part of its process to secure funding from Congress, and thus not subject to federal environmental law, in recent updates to a lawsuit filed by environmental groups against the agency.

A Canada-based CO2 removal (CDR) company and researchers from a Nova Scotian university are set to initiate a field experiment this month in Halifax Harbour to test ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) as a means of marine CDR.

Stakeholders pushed back on the California regulator’s proposals to trim utility and industrial allocation, force consignment of free allowances, and place limits on permit revenue usage, which would raise utility costs for consumers, in feedback submitted in response to ARB’s cap-and-trade May workshop.

Freshwater wetlands must be included in voluntary carbon market (VCM) methodologies to protect at-risk areas and leverage their outsized carbon sequestration potential, according to a Chilean environmental consultant speaking to Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of the Latin America Climate Summit in Cartagena last week.

Private companies are needed to help destroy ozone-depleting substances (ODS) but should align closely with multilateral governance bodies, a Finnish negotiator under the Montreal Protocol told Carbon Pulse, noting that Finland does not have an official position on the voluntary carbon market (VCM) specifically, as countries prepare to meet next week.

The party’s targets of building 1.5m homes over five years and decarbonising the electricity grid by 2030 look a stretch

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A landslide victory for Labour was also a satisfactory result for the vigilantes of the bond market. A Conservative administration that served up Liz Truss’s reckless budget of unfunded giveaways in 2022 has been punished. A Labour party promising fiscal discipline, to the point where it ditched a previous flagship £28bn policy on green investment in case it scared the horses, has been rewarded.

So, yes, one can see why the UK has suddenly acquired haven-like status in the eyes of financial markets. Unlike the US and France, for instance, international investors now know what they’re getting with the UK: a stable government anxious to demonstrate its market-friendly credentials. Meanwhile, inflation is falling and cuts in interest rates lie around the corner. “We believe UK government bonds (gilts) are attractive at current levels,” said Peder Beck-Friis, an economist at Pimco, the enormous bond fund manager.

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An upcoming European Commission guidance document designed to help the 27 EU member states interpret the legal definition of 'waste heat' is likely to create some conflict when released later this month, as the waste incineration sector recently entered the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS).

The UK looks set to slide up the climate action charts following the landslide win for the left-leaning Labour Party in the general election, with manifesto pledges including increases to renewable energy and halting new fossil fuel developments.

The founder of a startup claiming to be the first digital currency backed by carbon credits believes their firm's solution can set the tone for large-scale growth of the innovative climate finance tool.

An estimated 721,000 hectares of forest in Indonesia have been cleared for mining between 2001 and 2023, including 150,000 ha of primary forest, an analysis has found.

Relocation outside of the bloc and circumvention of the taxonomy are two responses likely to be taken by companies when the true financial impact of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) starts to kick in later this decade, in addition to securing supplies of low-carbon materials, according to an expert at a global consultancy.

The European Commission’s trade directorate is currently looking at adjustments to the EU’s CO2 border tax and anti-deforestation laws in order to avoid alienating foreign countries whose cooperation is needed to enforce the legislation, a senior EU official has said.

The UK Labour party, following its election victory, must take steps to allow the private sector to engage with the nutrient neutrality scheme, said an expert whose company has had to halt around 15 such schemes due to uncertainty.

Liberia has set up an expert group to help the African country move forward on carbon markets legislation, following a government meeting this week, local media reported, with a moratorium on market activity in discussion until a framework has been put in place.

Pressure had mounted on Luiz Amaral, the former chief executive of the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), from the organisation’s own technical group before he decided to step down from his role for personal reasons this week, an internal letter seen by Bloomberg has revealed.

European carbon prices traded in a tightly-defined range for a third session as the summer holiday season swung into its peak period, with technical support and resistance levels compressing slightly as the market's volatility has calmed, while UK Allowances were little changed after a landslide election result ushered in a centre-left government that is expected to increase action on climate issues.

The European Commission must develop a heating and cooling plan in order to meet its 2030 decarbonisation goals and prepare for the introduction of a dedicated Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) for heating and transport, a coalition said this week.

The Vietnamese government has proposed tax exemptions on revenue earned through carbon credits and green bond interest in an effort to bolster the development of its domestic carbon market, local media reported Friday.

The deployment at scale of carbon capture and storage (CCS) across Europe will require stronger cross-border connections, with CO2 transport pipelines and regulated markets seen as the next big challenge by industry experts.

China's national carbon market saw its price continue to fall over the past week with shrinking liquidity, though observers expect a resurgence in trading activity in the coming months after the government finally released a draft allocation plan for 2023 and 2024 this week.