Carbon Pulse

A daily summary of our news plus bite-sized updates from around the world.

A vote on legislation which includes Brazilian President Luiz Inacio da Silva's draft emissions trading system proposal that was scheduled to take place in the Senate Environmental Committee on Wednesday has been postponed.

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US states can now draw on $350 million in grants from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) to monitor and reduce methane emissions from their oil and gas operations.

A coalition led by a California-based research centre and an incubator for engineered carbon removal have both received Department of Energy funding to advance direct air capture in the US. 

In an attempt to allay market confusion from contrasting conclusions reached by REDD+ stakeholders and academics last week, an offset ratings firm released an analysis on Wednesday explaining key shortcomings of one of the studies.

Forest fires are getting worse, burning almost twice the tree cover in the last 20 years compared to the previous two decades, according to new analysis.

Gabon has become the latest African country to be shaken by unrest after senior military officers staged a coup on Wednesday, days before Kenya and the African Union Commission host a summit that intends to drive carbon investment into the continent.

A bipartisan pair of US Congresspersons have introduced a bill to provide up to $150 billion to help family and small-scale forest owners overcome barriers to developing carbon projects.

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The leader of highly-forested Guyana has touted huge aspirations for carbon markets at a recent meeting with a former UK prime minister and separately rebuffed questions on carbon credit integrity.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced plans on Tuesday to partner with a developer of carbon removal facilities to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires in the east of the US state.

A US-based startup is partnering with Italy’s second largest cement company to trial a technology that converts electricity to stored heat, which could significantly lower CO2 emissions for hard-to-abate sectors. 

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Rapidly scaling decarbonisation action must be our mission, as we confront an ever more terrifying climate crisis. But instead we risk slowing the pace of decarbonisation to an untenable level, warns John Connor of Australia's Carbon Market Institute.

The practice of biodiversity offsetting by mining companies is not a long-term sustainable solution to compensating for environmental impacts, academics have said.

The European Commission on Wednesday set out rules for participation in its inaugural auction, funded through ETS revenue, to subsidise green hydrogen across the 27-nation bloc.

A California-based developer that uses manmade structures on the seabed to harvest carbon-sequestering kelp has signed its first offtake agreement for the resultant blue carbon credits and says that investor interest is strong in the projects thanks to the multiple benefits they deliver for marine life, climate change, and coastal communities.

European carbon prices legged higher on Wednesday morning, following a recent trend of early-session strength, amid a strong auction and after weekly Commitment of Traders data from the two main exchanges showed a slight build in investment funds' short positioning.