Carbon Pulse

The committee steering Japan’s J-Credit programme is considering strengthening data reporting requirements for an increasingly popular rice-focused methodology to ensure credit quality.

An Australian environmental conservation organisation is seeking local government funding to establish environmental accounts that could inform biodiversity pilot projects, create jobs, and spur conservation efforts for the region.

Households worldwide squandered over one billion meals a day in 2022, as challenges in reducing food waste threaten to hold back progress towards achieving global biodiversity targets, a UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report has said.

Safeguard Mechanism data published by Australia’s Clean Energy Regulator Thursday showed facilities covered by the scheme surrendered 1.218 million Australian Carbon Credit Units 2022-23.

EU carbon prices have probably not seen their multi-year bottom yet and will likely head south again to re-test the key €50 level in the coming months, a veteran market analyst told Carbon Pulse.

A Texas-headquartered oil tech company will acquire majority ownership in a Norwegian carbon capture firm to accelerate industrial decarbonisation, it announced Wednesday.

A French biochar solution provider has secured a new funding round of €18 million with a government-backed fund in the hope of scaling carbon removal in emerging countries.

A Vancouver-based carbon offset developer has announced a multi-year agreement to sell credits generated from Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR), but did not disclose the purchaser’s identity. 

A gas-fired power producer has defended its motion for the Washington Department of Ecology (ECY) to either issue free allowances or prohibit the producer's purchase of allowances that cover emissions associated with generation for non-Washington consumers, in an ongoing lawsuit.  

The spreading of crushed silicate rock on agricultural land to precipitate CO2 capture, known as enhanced rock weathering, leads to higher crop yield in addition to improved nutrient uptake and soil pH, a scientific study has found.

Low carbon fuel standards (LCFS) across North American markets will continue to see renewable diesel (RD) play a major role in helping fuel producers meet their carbon intensity (CI) targets, but regulators must continue to adjust stringency to maintain programme effectiveness in light of increased RD production capacity, experts said Wednesday.

Applying beyond value chain mitigation (BVCM) principles in practice will initially need feasible internal carbon fees to gain traction, but its breadth can inspire greater corporate climate coordination, according to stakeholders speaking on a webinar Wednesday.

An inter-governmental organisation comprised of oil and gas stakeholders has underlined the importance of carbon markets for the energy transition, especially for financing technological solutions to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors, in a recent report.

The end of the EU carbon allowance price rally is in sight, with prices likely to start falling again in the next couple months, according to the research arm of a Dutch bank.

The introduction of a carbon credit scheme supporting the restoration of UK saltmarshes would be feasible and provide a pipeline for private investment to help restore these degraded areas with significant carbon storage potential, a government-backed study has found.

UK-headquartered biodiversity credit developer RePlanet has stressed the need to develop tailored biodiversity units for marine conservation due to critical challenges holding back the market.

California regulator ARB has issued the highest number of compliance-grade offsets so far this year, although year-to-date totals continue to lag behind 2023, data published by the agency Wednesday showed.

The voluntary climate action disclosure from 10 oil and gas majors falls short of what investors need to accurately gauge how they will meet their goals, and the risks posed by those transitions, according to analysis published on Wednesday.

A guide for investor members of the Nature Action 100 (NA100) initiative on engaging with companies in eight priority sectors has been published by non-profit Ceres.

A former chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has joined the board of a Los Angeles-headquartered carbon removal company that specialises in direct air capture (DAC) technology.