Carbon Pulse

Women's fundamental rights and wellbeing are at risk due to inaction on the climate crisis across the European Union, a feminist and green group claimed last Tuesday.

Ensuring China's CO2 emissions peaked in 2023 is feasible as long as the expansion of clean energy sources continues at the unprecedented rates observed last year, a report has found.

A state-owned Brazilian financial institution is accepting bids for 1 million Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs) generated through a waste handling programme launched in 2012 with the support of the World Bank.

A CO2 pipeline developer was accused of a lack of communication from landowners during a North Dakota Public Service Commission (PSC) hearing Friday, in its second attempt to secure construction permits, local media reported.

A group of environmental NGOs outlined a set of policy recommendations for stakeholders and governance bodies in the safe and equitable implementation of REDD+ projects in Colombia’s voluntary carbon market (VCM).

Over 20 states and a major auto manufacturer separately filed motions to intervene in a lawsuit against the US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) heavy-duty vehicle emissions standards.

Singapore and Ghana, two forerunners in developing Article 6 trade, have struck a deal that will see sovereign carbon credits from the West African country flow into the Asian island-state.

South African voters head to the polls Wednesday amid energy shortages, a proposed carbon tax hike, and incoming international carbon tariffs, with the country’s three biggest parties open to adding new energies to the national mix but resistant to transitioning away from coal.

Shipping firms based in Greece face EU ETS costs of €335 million this year, rising to €1 billion once the sector is fully integrated in the bloc's carbon market, analysts said.

The EU will not be too strict with companies during the transitional phase of CBAM and is looking into a possible WTO-compatible solution to promote exports of less carbon-intensive products made in Europe, a senior European Commission official told Carbon Pulse.

The summer doldrums has arrived early in the voluntary carbon sector this year after another week of generally thin liquidity and sideway pricing, but pockets of high-priced trades for nature-based credits and early interest in Article 6-eligible units propped up optimism for the future.

The energy transition has massively expanded during the five-year term of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, with the share of renewables in the EU's electricity sector jumping to 44% and investments in clean technologies more than tripling, according to fresh data published on Monday.

A Swiss-headquartered non-profit has released a set of recommendations to bolster Africa’s biodiversity credit markets, including setting minimum price floors for units and establishing an independent body tasked with determining project outcomes.

The South Downs has become the first national park in the UK to establish a formal scheme for a voluntary biodiversity credit market, aiming to scale up private investments in nature recovery.

A US-based global environmental asset authenticator, registry, and exchange announced its first Middle Eastern franchise in Iraq in partnership with the Iraqi branch of a Canadian carbon and energy advisory firm.

Declining biodiversity will hit stored carbon stocks given an ecosystem’s ability to keep carbon out of the air is linked to its biological diversity, a paper published last week has found.

European carbon prices rebounded on thin liquidity on Monday with strong German power and TTF gas movements feeding strength into the market, and tight auction supply this week also offering support.

A Malaysian federal agency has launched a non-market instrument under its REDD+ programme to channel private sector funds for supporting forest conservation projects in the country.

With the current ETS focused on big industrial polluters, the EU has only played the “amateur league” of carbon pricing, and is now entering dangerous waters where climate policies start encroaching on private property and individual freedoms, warned Poland’s climate minister.

Malawi has finalised its carbon trading regulatory framework, according to media sources, and so far registered 11 projects following a goverment review into its market activity last year.