Carbon Pulse

A weekly summary of our biodiversity news plus bite-sized updates from around the world. All articles in this edition are free to read (no subscription required).

Swedish utility Vattenfall posted a year-on-year drop in EU ETS-covered fossil generation in its H1 2023 results published Thursday, and halted plans to build a new offshore wind farm in British waters.

Unilever’s skincare brand Dove has teamed up with the Singapore-based Rimba Collective to protect rainforests across Southeast Asia over the next five years.

A Japanese climate startup will work with a social business development company to create carbon credits through the promotion of a rice farming practice in Bangladesh, eyeing the huge potential of the South Asian country's agricultural sector, it announced Thursday.

An Australian carbon project aggregator and developer has announced a pilot e-cookstove carbon project to help improve health and environmental issues in Laos, expecting to generate 6 million carbon credits over the next decade.

The first impact fund to gain approval under Gold Standard's financier-focused programme marks a key threshold in efforts to assure effective impact investing for sustainable development, the certifier said on Thursday.

The New Zealand government has partnered with the country’s largest dairy cooperative, committing NZ$90 million ($56 mln) in co-funding to Fonterra to cut coal use at six of its dairy factories, which is expected cut manufacturing emissions in half by 2030.

US climate envoy John Kerry said Wednesday that Washington and Beijing will stick to their global commitment and hold climate meetings on a regular basis, after three days of talks to revive the dialogue between the world's two largest carbon emitters.

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Cattle farmers have expressed their concerns over using asparagopsis feed additive as a way to cut methane emissions from their livestock, urging the emerging industry to take the necessary time to thoroughly scrutinise the process.

Tensions are said to be escalating over reports that the Liberian government is in talks with UAE-based Blue Carbon to grant it access to a million hectares of crucial forest land to develop for carbon credit generation.

Biodiversity crediting will soon have to face up to the challenge of when to bundle or stack mitigation outcomes alongside carbon, experts have told Carbon Pulse, with the sometimes controversial practice expected to come to the fore of the conversation as the nascent nature market looks to scale.

The Australian government expects a draft of the hotly anticipated Integrated Farming and Land Management (IFLM) methodology to be released later in the year, but crucial details have yet to be resolved.

A report from an international consultancy group says Brazil will need to invest $80 billion per year to control its emissions, largely driven by illegal deforestation, and that carbon markets have an important role to play.

US federal government regulators heard pointed criticism of voluntary carbon standards, as agency officials defended their record and suggested greater participatory roles at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's (CFTC) second voluntary carbon markets convening on Wednesday.

The European Parliament, Council, and Commission late Wednesday failed to reach an agreement on the regulation of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases (F-Gases), in what was expected to be the final climate-related trilogue negotiation before the summer break.

The Plan Vivo Foundation and biodiversity data startup Pivotal have announced a new partnership as they aim to deliver their first biodiversity certificates by the end of 2023, the companies announced Thursday.

A San Francisco-based startup that uses generative AI to help companies transition to clean power has secured nearly $6 mln in seed funding and has signed an agreement with a prominent carbon removals firm.

A row has erupted in Tanzania after the Ministry of Environment imposed a raft of hefty new fees on voluntary carbon projects that developers warn will derail current activity and discourage future investment in the African country’s nascent market.

A new platform plans to provide an up-to-date, detailed, and verified snapshot of the health of a forest by integrating multiple technologies at the same time.