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A US-based carbon marketplace startup announced Wednesday it is joining a new $176 million initiative that aims to transform smallholder cocoa farming in Brazil by promoting sustainable practices and facilitating access to carbon markets.

The autonomous region of Galicia in Spain will soon pass carbon markets legislation that aims to draw investment into local communities while encouraging finance flows from within and outside the region, a top environment official told Carbon Pulse.

Sweeping synthesis of 2,000 global studies leaves no doubt about scale of problem and role of humans, say experts

Humans are driving biodiversity loss among all species across the planet, according to a synthesis of more than 2,000 studies.

The exhaustive global analysis leaves no doubt about the devastating impact humans are having on Earth, according to researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag) and the University of Zurich. The study – which accounted for nearly 100,000 sites across all continents – found that human activities had resulted in “unprecedented effects on biodiversity”, according to the paper, published in Nature.

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A regional court in Germany has barred an airline from using two marketing statements it deemed misleading in relation to CO2 offsetting, following a legal challenge from an environmental non-profit.

A carbon removal standard has released a draft methodology for public consultation on carbon removal (CDR) using river alkalinity enhancement (RAE), which it claims is the first such crediting protocol.

Five recommended key rules for nature markets to achieve their environmental aims while delivering scientifically credible outcomes have been put forward in a pre-print by academics, with the most important being additionality.

Shell reduced the volume of carbon credits it retired in 2024, as a drop in transport fuel sales and increased renewable electricity transactions helped the company progress toward its net zero targets, the energy major said in its annual report.

Australian coal mine methane emissions have barely budged in decades despite a vast ramp up in coal production but the devil is in the details, which show this may not indicate an absolute drop in emissions intensity, a think tank warned Thursday.

A conservation organisation is preparing to expand its portfolio of biodiversity credit projects in Europe, as moving beyond just carbon could help it increase revenues and better support landowners implementing nature protection and restoration activities, its founder told Carbon Pulse.

A carbon insurance startup said Wednesday it has expanded its underwriting capacity to €22.5 million, a 450% increase in the safety net to meet growing demand for carbon risk solutions.

Critics say industry threatens the endangered Maugean skate and laws were rushed through with ’no proper process’

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Controversial legislation to protect the Tasmanian salmon industry has passed parliament after the government guillotined debate to bring on a vote in the Senate on Wednesday night.

Government and Coalition senators voted in favour of the bill, which was designed to bring an end to a formal reconsideration by the environment minister, Tanya Plibersek, into whether an expansion of fish farming in Macquarie harbour in 2012 was properly approved.

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The tough stance adopted by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Markets (ICVCM) on cookstove methodologies is “overly conservative” in part, warns a lobby group for project developers.

European carbon prices clung to a key price level for much of Wednesday morning before reaching midday little changed as trading in the March options contract entered the finals hours before expiry, shrugging off data showing that investment funds had increased their bullish positioning for the first time in six weeks.

China has finalised a work plan to officially incorporate steel, aluminium, and cement production into the national CO2 emissions trading system.

The UK national standards body has released a revamped version of its overarching principles for nature credits, calling on companies to engage in the market to address the ongoing environmental crisis.

A UK-based carbon project developer is preparing the expansion of a cookstove project in Sierra Leone, with fuel-efficient equipment to be distributed to a further quarter of a million households, it announced this week.

Third of global GDP could be lost this century if climate crisis runs unchecked, says report

Taking strong action to tackle the climate crisis will increase countries’ economic growth, rather than damage their finances as critics of net zero policies have claimed, research from the world’s economic watchdog has found.

Setting ambitious targets on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and setting out the policies to achieve them, would result in a net gain to global GDP by the end of the next decade, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), in a joint report with the UN Development Programme.

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The European Commission has published draft rules for the verification of emissions data submitted by airlines under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) as well as for the accreditation of verifiers to perform the checks, including on green jet fuels.

A leaked document from a working group that will shape the energy and climate policies of the new German coalition government has indicated support for using Article 6 carbon credits under the Paris Agreement to help industries address their residual emissions.

A clean technology business group based in the UAE has partnered with an Indian renewable energy company to integrate carbon markets, power transmission, and sustainable energy solutions into the clean economy in Africa and across global markets.