Carbon Pulse

The European Parliament is sending a delegation of 15 lawmakers to the COP29 UN climate summit in Azerbaijan, with the intention to act as a "watchdog" in the negotiations involving EU member states and the European Commission, MEPs said.

Soaring coal capacity in Indonesia is threatening the country’s efforts to drive down emissions, a report published on Friday has found.

India’s current climate policies are already helping bend its long-term emissions curve and will contribute to the world’s third-biggest emitter reducing its GHG output by almost 4 billion tonnes of CO2e by the end of this decade, research published this week has found.

A Canadian materials producer this month announced nearly $23.8 million in investments to test a novel carbon capture technology at one of its paper mills.

Investment in cutting emissions from the US land sector, specifically targeting both forestry and agriculture, could see significant annual results based on a carbon price range of $30-60/tonne, a new study has estimated, while calling for a balanced focus and warning of diminishing returns.

For a building’s environmental footprint to be properly factored into its value, the industry needs to galvanise around a single data point, with carbon use intensity a likely forerunner, according to industry experts.

Corporate nature-related reporting significantly increased this year among large companies, with disclosures aligned with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) more than doubled compared to 2023, a new report has shown.

India’s largest offset developer has registered a renewable energy project in Azerbaijan, making it the first ever large-scale renewable energy project eligible for generating carbon credits in the COP29 host nation.

Carbon project rating agency BeZero Carbon made over $20 million in losses in the last financial year, according to publicly available documents, due to the creation of 50 jobs and subsidiaries in the US and Singapore, the company said.

A San Francisco-based marine drone startup has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to develop its technology aimed at advancing seagrass restoration.

Ukraine has adopted legislation establishing a national emission trading system (ETS) this week, which will start in 2026 with a two-year pilot phase and will become fully operational in 2029.

European carbon prices extended their late Thursday rally to climb above key technical levels amid continued buying in power and gas markets as weather forecasts called for lower temperatures in much of Europe.

UK-headquartered conservation company Environment Bank has announced a 30-year restoration and rewilding project within over 178,000 hectares of low-yielding land in North Yorkshire, England.

Prices in China’s national emissions market hit a fresh all-time high again the past week while trading volume surged, buoyed by growing compliance demand, though a newly introduced carryover policy may complicate the price growth outlook.

Opposing views on climate, and the need to ramp up spending on defence and clean energy in the wake of Donald Trump’s election in the US, all played a part in the fall of the German government coalition, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said.

The emergence of carbon border adjustment mechanisms (CBAM) has created a heightened sense of uncertainty among Chinese exporters, despite China's recent policy progress in expanding its mandatory carbon market, analysts said this week.

A Vancouver-based carbon credits project developer has completed its business combination with a ‘blank cheque’ company, securing an additional $43 million to go public on the US stock exchange.

October saw a big month-on-month jump in the retirement of credits tagged with ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) high-integrity label, carbon registry data analysed by Carbon Pulse shows.

Just six years remain to reach Canada’s target of 40-45% emissions reductions below 2005 levels, but efforts led by the federal government to reduce emissions face considerable implementation challenges, a report from the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) said Thursday.

Private jets are contributing an increasingly significant share to global carbon emissions, with emissions rising nearly 50% over the last four years, according to a new study.