Carbon Pulse
![Subscribe to Carbon Pulse feed](https://www.seng.org.au/misc/feed.png)
![Carbon Pulse](https://carbon-pulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/cropped-apple-touch-icon-32x32.png)
News and intelligence on carbon markets, greenhouse gas pricing, and climate policy
Updated: 2 hours 17 min ago
Climate and Land Use Data Scientist, Conservation International – Eastern Cape, South Africa
Conservation South Africa is seeking a motivated and technically savvy individual to fill the role of Climate and Land Use Data Scientist supporting the implementation of the Climate Positive Land Use Strategy in its Umzimvubu Demonstration Landscape. The successful candidate will mine, develop, analyse, and distribute detailed high-quality spatial planning and technical conservation information.
Categories: Around The Web
Climate Positive Land Use Planning Partnership Manager, Conservation International – Eastern Cape, South Africa
Conservation South Africa is seeking a dynamic and motivated individual to fill the role of Climate Positive Land Use Planning (CPLUS) Manager. The successful candidate will lead the implementation of CPLUS, a systematic approach to plan conservation activities at a scale that facilitates transformational landscape-level change.
Categories: Around The Web
Environment Bank ‘overwhelmed’ with potential biodiversity credit projects
UK-headquartered conservation company Environment Bank has engaged with numerous managers of sites globally that could become its next biodiversity credit venture, an executive has said.
Categories: Around The Web
INTERVIEW: Carbon removal developer targets “industry influencers” to create market traction for its credits
A developer of nature-based carbon removal credits is taking a strategic approach to selling its credits by approaching “industry influencers” willing to support the development of high-quality carbon projects, in a bid to generate momentum around removals and lay the seeds for mass-market adoption.
Categories: Around The Web
US researchers discover microbes that convert CO2 into rocks
A team of scientists in South Dakota found naturally occurring microbes that consume and convert CO2 into solid rock, the research lab announced earlier this week.
Categories: Around The Web
Macron’s cabinet reshuffle leaves France without energy minister
After French President Emmanuel Macron nominated his thirty-four-year-old disciple and enfant prodige Gabriel Attal as the nation's new prime minister this week, the new cabinet announced on Friday featured no dedicated minister in charge of energy and appeared to be a marked shift to the political right.
Categories: Around The Web
Turkish steelmaker plans to cut emissions by a quarter by 2030 as industry gears up for new ETS
The owner of Turkey’s largest steel plants will invest $3.2 billion to reduce their emissions 25% by 2030, the company announced this week, while the country gears up for its own decarbonisation mechanism with plans to introduce an ETS in the second half of 2024.
Categories: Around The Web
Euro Markets: Midday Update
Carbon prices in Europe were little changed on Friday morning amid growing geopolitical concerns and firmer energy markets, as the EU ETS geared up for the resumption of daily allowance auctions from next week.
Categories: Around The Web
Scientists convert CO2 into useful carbon nanofibers, with potential for offsetting or removal credits
Scientists have found a way to convert CO2 into carbon nanofibers - materials with a wide range of unique properties and many potential long-term uses - in a process they said could be used for offsetting or carbon removals (CDR).
Categories: Around The Web
Crop merchant partners with NGO to roll out regenerative agriculture practices and curb habitat loss
A major agricultural commodities trader will work closely with an environmental NGO to encourage the take-up of regenerative agriculture practices in key supply chains while also conserving vital habitats for the preservation of biodiversity and climate change mitigation.
Categories: Around The Web
Social, political disparities in biodiversity data can impact global conservation efforts and investment decisions, study says
Social and political disparities in biodiversity data may significantly impact global conservation efforts and investments in biodiversity-related initiatives worth billions of dollars, researchers said in a recent paper published in the journal Science.
Categories: Around The Web
EU draft aims for 450 mln tonnes of carbon capture in 2050 -Bloomberg
The EU should capture as much 450 million tonnes of CO2 a year by 2050 to meet its net zero emissions target, according to a leaked draft of the European Commission's upcoming industrial carbon management strategy seen by Bloomberg, with the final text due to be officially presented in February.
Categories: Around The Web
CN Markets: CEA trading activity remains slow amid unclear supply outlook
Allowances in the Chinese carbon market dropped slightly over the past week amid sluggish demand, as the near-term outlook remains blurry due to the lack of policy updates.
Categories: Around The Web
Indian state launches plan to restore coastal areas, create framework for carbon credits trading
An Indian state has announced measures for the restoration of coastal areas and conservation of marine biodiversity, while also creating a framework for the trading of carbon credits, a state government official told a local newspaper on Thursday.
Categories: Around The Web
Australian carbon firm eyes ASX listing, gets backing from major NY fund
The Australian Securities Exchange is set to see a new carbon player with backing from a New York fund join.
Categories: Around The Web
Japan to encourage carbon market participation via funding support -media
The government of Japan is planning to encourage participation in the country's newly established voluntary carbon market by setting up requirements for companies that intend to receive financial support for their decarbonisation measures, local media reported.
Categories: Around The Web
China appoints new climate envoy as Xie Zhenhua steps down
China on Friday announced it has appointed a new special climate change envoy, as veteran Xie Zhenhua steps down for health reasons.
Categories: Around The Web
Australia to join OECD peers in mandatory climate-related financial disclosure reporting, Scope 3 reports coming soon
Australia has released draft legislation on its first mandatory climate-related financial disclosures and will begin to require all Scope 3 emissions be accounted for by the second half of the decade.
Categories: Around The Web
China’s Guangdong adds three sectors to regional ETS, releases permit allocation plan
China’s Guangdong has expanded the coverage of the regional emissions trading scheme to cover three additional emissions-intensive sectors for the current compliance period as the economic hub seeks to strengthen its carbon market.
Categories: Around The Web
Energy players band together for Singapore CCS work
A large group of Asian energy players have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to progress carbon capture and storage (CCS) work to help Singapore’s net-zero target.
Categories: Around The Web