Carbon Pulse

Methane emissions from LNG-fueled ships may be on average double the level current EU and global regulations assume, a study has found, with demand only expected to grow for the gas.

A company developing biodiversity credits in South America is in the closing stages of having its project methodology approved by standard body Cercarbono, after which it hopes to have its credits listed on two carbon trading platforms before the end of the year.

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A yearly review into Australia’s carbon industry has found a growing number of participants are meeting full compliance status, but there is room for improvement on how the sector engages with First Nations groups.

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California regulator ARB on Thursday revealed its considerations in selecting an allowance pool for removal cap-and-trade permits over the rest of the decade, discussed reductions in free permits for electrical distribution utilities (EDUs), and received feedback on electricity imports from unlinked carbon pricing jurisdictions, the California Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) adjustment, and biogenic emissions.

California Carbon Allowances (CCA) receded slightly through the week with traders awaiting details from state regulator ARB's Thursday cap-and-trade public pre-rulemaking workshop, while Washington Carbon Allowances (WCA) remained fairly flat with slim transaction activity.

The British government on Thursday released the auction calendar for UK Allowances for next year, with 69 million permits to be offered up on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange.

Small and medium-sized companies are finding implementing the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) challenging, say consultants and business groups, as the new system’s reporting requirements come into force this month and impact hundreds of products.

Paraguay's lower house of Congress on Wednesday voted to pass the country's first national legislation regulating the voluntary carbon market with almost no opposition, sending the bill to President Santiago Pena for final approval.

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A US-based agricultural products company has said its microbiological additives could tackle two of the biggest challenges for agricultural carbon removal projects, permanence and additionality.

Plan Vivo aims to launch guidance on the pricing of biodiversity credits within a year, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The forestry division of a UK-based alternative asset manager is starting to factor carbon credit revenue into the returns of its commercial forestry assets where there is some degree of market certainty, a conference heard on Thursday.

Two partnerships for providing insurance on carbon credits were announced Thursday, with both intended to help provide financial and reputational security on transactions and scale investment in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).

Carbon credit issuance from the big four registries tumbled in September to their lowest in at least a year, amid single digit prices for avoidance credits coupled with the limbo created by the ICVCM’s launch of its assessment framework for Core Carbon Principle eligibility.

The EU's compliance carbon market will need an estimated 200 million tonnes of carbon removals by mid-century to cancel out residual emissions in the mechanism, analysts said Thursday, based on a modelling of the 'least cost' way to meet the bloc's 2050 net zero target.

EU legislators failed to advance past initial exchanges in their first attempt to finalise the bloc's divisive nature restoration bill on Thursday, instead asking officials to craft compromises in an effort to break an impasse. 

The UN's Green Climate Fund (GCF) has secured $9.3 billion in pledges across 25 countries with a large proportion announcing cash at a high-level event in Germany on Thursday, though the total remains below each of the previous two fundraises.