Carbon Pulse

A Japanese carbon project developer has strengthened its management team as it seeks to scale to meet credit demand in the country.

Global investors representing $1.4 trillion in assets under management have called on companies they invest in to urgently disclose their nature-related impacts and address related dependencies.

Executives at the Evergreen Fund have said they could almost quadruple the land in English habitat banks generating biodiversity net gain (BNG) over the next couple of years up to around 400 hectares, if demand increases, Carbon Pulse has learned.

While carbon markets are helping to stem global warming, even a "very strong" energy transformation scenario would only limit global temperature rise to 2.4C, analysts said at a webinar this week.

Corporate financing of carbon removals will be crucial to keeping aligned with Paris Agreement commitments but they are not being deployed at the speed and scale necessary, a working paper from a UK university has argued.

European carbon allowance prices were marginally firmer at midday on Thursday, with the benchmark clawing back early losses as energy markets appeared to be stabilising after three days of declines.

Implementing a 'bioeconomy' approach on biodiversity credit project areas in the Amazon could help developers stay afloat at a time when demand for units has yet to pick up, the founder of a Brazil-based nature tech company has told Carbon Pulse.

The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) has provided a loan of $60 million to the second largest steel producer in Indonesia in order to help the firm transition to low-carbon production and drive sector-wide decarbonisation.

A startup focused on exchange-traded carbon investments has tied up with a Dubai-headquartered e-marketplace firm to offer voluntary credits to its clients.

A Brazilian startup released on Wednesday the first version of its biodiversity credit methodology for endangered species, predominantly focused on plants, after implementing a two-month trial on a small private land area.

Japanese public financial institutions provided a staggering $93 billion in support for overseas oil and gas projects over the last decade, four times larger than that provided for clean energy projects, a report has found.

Some 20 investors managing $695 billion in assets collectively have asked a chemical company to avoid mining a wetland in the US for titanium, in a letter on Tuesday.

The Spanish ecological transition minister, who is widely tipped for the European Commission’s climate portfolio, has highlighted the importance of ramping up investments in electricity grids to support the green transition.

The mismatch between forward prices displayed in Australia's carbon market and projected price increases is a result of fundamental demand drivers failing to be factored into the market, according to analysis published Thursday.

South Korea and Japan have decided to extend their collaboration and launch a global working group on the development of carbon-free energy.

The Malaysian government has released a decarbonisation blueprint for its aviation sector, targeting net zero emissions by 2050, it announced Thursday.

The International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) has introduced a new platform for aviation companies to purchase offsets through a renewed partnership with a voluntary carbon exchange.

Australia’s Climate Change Authority (CCA) has published a sectoral pathway report on how the country can reach net zero emissions by 2050, recommending its Safeguard Mechanism and carbon crediting schemes be expanded to help better coordinate the transition.

A team of researchers presented different intervention strategies to potentially reduce up to 30% of GHG emissions from US beef production.

Egypt’s Financial Regulatory Authority (FRA) has approved a domestic standard’s carbon registry and allowed 12 projects from the registry for trading on the national voluntary carbon market (VCM) platform.