Carbon Pulse

A new study has unveiled stark inequalities in global climate governance, highlighting that the most influential countries in climate negotiations bear far fewer consequences from climate-related disasters than those with less influence.

Investment from the US private sector towards decarbonisation has slowed since 2022, a US treasury official said Wednesday, calling on firms to finance technologies to reduce emissions from the shipping and industrial sectors.

Higher emissions in 2023 under Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emission Reduction (TIER) programme resulted in increased usage of offsets and emission performance credits (EPCs), according to a compliance report published Monday.

Global solar installations exceeded most industry forecasts in 2024, with 593 GW expected to be added by the end of the year, according to analysis by a global energy think tank.

The ocean’s ability to absorb CO2 is not only vital for mitigating climate change, but also crucial for enhancing global wealth and reducing the cost of national climate policies, according to a new study.

Brazil's voluntary carbon market (VCM) will play a role in mitigation efforts if it is able to attract large-scale investment – but even then, it may not channel sufficient climate finance and reduce enough emissions to be an engine of net zero on either a global or national scale.

Airline passengers are increasingly willing to accept additional costs and time commitments to reduce the environmental impact of their flights, for example paying an extra 11% for offsets, according to a new survey.

A new registry launched Wednesday for Brazilian carbon projects, announcing its first transaction at the Brazil Climate Summit in New York.

As the voluntary carbon credit industry has grown, so has the number of related lawsuits, prompting one US university to expand its legal resources to address this trend.

India’s methane emissions from coal mining could double should it expand its domestic industry in order to reduce reliance on imports and feed its increasingly demanding power and steel sectors, a think tank has found.

A US-based tech giant has inked another deal to purchase CO2 removal credits, this time from a California-headquartered carbon-negative power company.

Energy intensive industries continue to face obstacles on their road to decarbonisation, according to economists from the European Central Bank (ECB), who raised concerns about the next phase of EU emissions trading.

A company overseeing a biodiversity credit pilot in Romania is seeking to show the government how its use of EU environmental payments is incentivising the degradation of hay meadows, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The buyers club Frontier has facilitated its fourth round of carbon removal (CDR) pre-purchases, with $4.5 million spent on credits from nine project developers, including first-of-their-kind deals in India and Africa.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) published an update Wednesday that experts saw as opening the door for corporates to use removals as part of carbon neutralisation claims under the organisation's net-zero standard.

Over 650 UK farms have been assessed in the “largest and most thorough” baseline of environmental farm performance in the UK, in an effort to standardise a confusing landscape of processes for collecting the data, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Bioacoustics, an emerging technology using sound recordings to monitor wildlife, can be useful to support human ecologists but should not be considered as a replacement for on-site observation, an industry insider said on Tuesday.

The more government policies focus on developing their domestic carbon removals rather than a global market for credits, the less opportunity there will be to tap into the biggest potential in the world - often in developing countries that have less need to cut emissions, according to experts.

Two banks have announced they will sell carbon removals issued under the Puro standard to their clients in a bid to ramp up liquidity in the nascent market.

Danish renewable energy company Orsted has secured a deal to sell 330,000 carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits to Norwegian oil and gas major Equinor over a ten year period for an undisclosed sum, boosting Norway's Northern Lights carbon capture and storage project for the North Sea.