Carbon Pulse

A climate finance company launched this week aims to unlock billions for developing countries by providing guarantees for institutional investors buying green bonds on the London Stock Exchange.

Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which oversees Norway’s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, has highlighted the significant impacts and dependencies on biodiversity linked to its investees' sectors, in its first step towards adopting the TNFD's recommendations.

Corporations will use biodiversity credits to “counterbalance” the harm they inflict on nature throughout their supply chains, but the practice should not be called offsetting, a data expert has predicted.

Verra has launched a public consultation on proposed revisions to a refrigerant leak detection methodology as part of revisions to parts of its carbon crediting programmes.

The European Commission’s list of shipping companies and assigned countries for participating in the EU ETS is causing administrative burdens for firms outside the bloc - with little time in which to navigate the new rules.

A blended finance fund dedicated to investing in clean energy and infrastructure in developing countries has received $282 million of commitments, bolstered by a recent investment from the European Investment Bank (EIB).

Crashing prices have boosted interest in biochar credits in the nascent carbon removal market, although big ticket punts have catapulted direct air capture (DAC) as well as bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), into the limelight and skewed emerging drivers of demand, a review of 2023 has revealed.

Allowance prices in China's carbon market moved up over the past four trading days despite recent regulatory news, while only hundreds of credits changed hands in the national offset market amid diminishing demand.

European carbon prices were little changed on Wednesday morning as the lack of a daily auction and inconclusive weekly position data failed to offer any impetus to the market while mixed energy markets also failed to give any direction, setting EUAs up to return the narrowest daily trading range in nearly three years.

A Danish tech startup specialising in regenerative agriculture finance and technology has acquired a UK-based farm management software business that has thousands of farmer clients across more than 100 countries.

The International Energy Agency's recommendation that renewable energy installation be tripled by the end of the decade would be a drop in a vast ocean at one of Australia’s more emissions-intense regions, and the scale needed is not yet close to get decarbonisation across the line.

The government of Cambodia has decided to study the potential of combining the concept of securities token offering (STO) with carbon credits, with an exchange reportedly to be introduced later this year.

New Zealand’s Supreme Court has permitted legal action to proceed against the country’s biggest emitters after finding that companies may be liable for their contributions to climate change.

A discussion regarding the growing landscape of climate regulations around the world saw panelists consider the implications of the rise in mandatory disclosures, while experts laid out best practices for companies in a webinar on Tuesday.

Scientists at a US university have deployed research buoys to independently monitor a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project that pumps CO2 under a lakebed, in an attempt to allay local opposition to the project.

A California-headquartered startup released Tuesday a methodology designed to measure the impact of carbon credit projects on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

The voluntary carbon market is at a crossroads, with 2024 emerging as a crucial year that could either propel the market towards a valuation of over $1.1 trillion annually by mid-century or steer it towards its potential collapse.

Renewable sources are increasingly forming the backbone of the EU power mix, with the region's fossil fuel electricity generation falling to record-low levels last year, according to a report published on Wednesday.

Industry stakeholders criticised proposed amendments to reporting requirements under the state's draft Clean Heat Standard (CHS) framework in a webinar Tuesday, arguing they were overly burdensome on business.

The two bills, approved Monday by the House Commerce and Energy Committee, establish protocols for landowners and carbon sequestration pipeline companies following the denial of permits to two CO2 pipelines by the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) last year.