Carbon Pulse

Swiss bank UBS has invested in impact data and analytics provider GIST Impact to back its expansion, with a focus on bolstering support for nature-related corporate disclosures among companies and investors.

The private sector-led Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has named its first CEO.

Europe’s carbon market sends a stronger decarbonisation signal than Washington's subsidy-laden Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), an analyst told US television network CNBC Thursday, outlining an EUA price forecast of as high as €130 per tonne by 2028.

Using green hydrogen instead of natural gas to decarbonise Australia's established ammonia production sector provides a doorway to unlock the country's hydrogen ambitions, and tax credits offered by the government in its latest budget could be the key, analysis published Thursday said.

A California-headquartered agri-tech firm seeks to reduce methane emissions from rice farming in India and is preparing its first batch of projects on the east coast of the South Asian nation, the company's co-founders told Carbon Pulse.

An Australian carbon project developer has had its cookstove project in Papua New Guinea registered by Verra, but will receive roughly half the volume of credits it initially expected due to using an updated methodology, a fact the company's CEO said he welcomed. 

Oil and gas major Santos is “confident” it has enough Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) for its Barossa LNG project to meet its compliance obligations under the Safeguard Mechanism.

Verra has signed an agreement with the Malaysian Forest Fund (MFF) to support the alignment of the Southeast Asia nation’s forestry carbon initiatives with the Verified Carbon Standard.

A US biorefinery firm on Tuesday announced it has finalised agreements and equipment orders to deploy carbon capture and storage (CCS) with a 1.2 million tonne capacity at its Nebraska plants.

Only two out of 28 rich countries have allocated what is estimated as their fair share of the resources for biodiversity required under the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), while over 80% of them provided less than half of it, according to a report released Thursday.

A drive to scale carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) projects, including 'blue' hydrogen and gas with abatement, could lead to increased demand for LNG imports, which in turn would cause the UK to exceed its carbon budget, research by a financial climate think tank has found.

A veteran North American carbon and energy sales trader has joined one of Europe's largest utilities.

Wet woodlands not only store substantial amounts of carbon in both tree biomass and underground peat, but also offer natural flood protection and bolster biodiversity, according to a new study.

Germany’s “Climate and Transformation Fund” (KTF) is nearing breaking point, putting the federal government in front of hard decisions, according to a study by the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) published on Wednesday.

Opponents of the US Securities Exchange Commission’s (SEC) climate disclosure rules have asked a federal appeals court to revoke the regulation altogether, just months after the agency issued a stay to resolve mounting legal challenges.

The change in credits eligible for the current phase of CORSIA, the UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme, compared to its pilot, has triggered a $155.4 mln lawsuit against CME Group after it altered eligibility for its GEO futures contract.

A US-headquartered foundation has announced the allocation of $33.5 million in grants to finance the conservation and restoration of longleaf pine forests in eight southern states.

As competition with China and the US intensifies on clean tech, the EU must stay the course on the Green Deal and make sure it is implemented by filling the remaining gaps in areas like finance and electrification of end-uses, says Iberdrola’s director for climate, Gonzalo Saenz de Miera.

Expense for environment and climate action in the EU will remain the same as last year, although the general budget is growing, according to allocations for 2025 proposed by the European Commission on Wednesday.

A UK biochar producer has announced its first carbon removal agreement, in what marks a boost for the British carbon removal (CDR) market.