Carbon Pulse

Lawmakers from a central US state that previously prevailed in fossil fuel pipeline battles, introduced legislation to prohibit the transport and storage of carbon dioxide.

Australian oil and gas company and a US university have entered into a five-year partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and advance low carbon solutions, the academic institution announced Wednesday.

More work is needed across all sectors to achieve the EU’s climate objectives out to 2050, including adjusting the ETS and making policies fully consistent with a fossil fuels phaseout, according to the board of scientists advising the bloc on climate change.

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EU ETS emissions in 2023 are likely to have fallen by around 23% in the power sector, and by around 5-6% in the industry sector, with the resulting weakness leaving the EUA price outlook for 2024 close to current depressed levels, according to a market analyst.

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The RGGI states reduced allowance volumes offered at the first auction of 2024, following the departure of Virginia from the power sector cap-and-trade scheme at the end of December, a notice showed Tuesday.

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Sustainable agricultural practices focused on smallholder farmers can help produce more food while caring for the land, Kashim Shettima, the vice president of Nigeria said.

Carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects stemming from exhaust streams of natural gas driven compressors will not be economically viable until higher carbon prices are realised in the US and Canada, although emerging technologies also show promise in reducing cost, according to a report published Wednesday.

A group of companies making up a third of the global mining and metals industry on Wednesday committed to taking actions that will halt their negative impact on biodiversity by 2030 and support a nature positive future.

The European Commission will start work on a CO2 transport regulatory package under the ETS, according to a leaked draft of the upcoming industrial carbon management strategy (ICMS) seen by Carbon Pulse on Wednesday.

Indigenous Peoples must be involved in shaping the nascent biodiversity market, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) co-chair has said.

The US-led Energy Transition Accelerator (ETA) jurisdictional carbon crediting mechanism to phase out coal globally could be a key lever to helping reach the goal to triple renewables to at least 11,000 GW globally by 2030, said outgoing US climate envoy John Kerry in Davos on Wednesday.

Startups in the durable carbon dioxide removal (CDR) market face a race to drill down production costs after price per tonne topped a poll as the key factor for buyers, in a 2024 outlook published Wednesday.

A Swiss carbon capture firm has opened its next series of funding in order to expand its operations and add new storage sites across Europe and the UK, it announced on Wednesday.

A Montreal-based carbon removal project developer has partnered with a Germany-based direct air capture (DAC) company to install a new carbon removals facility in Canada, they said Wednesday.

A new environmental commodities investment company has launched with the aim of delivering flexible financing options for carbon removal and reduction projects and access to high-quality carbon credits at scale.

Newer carbon credit vintages played a significantly more influential role in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in 2023, as increased buyer scrutiny and the diminishing role of older credits looks set to signal an important trend change, analysts have said.