Carbon Pulse

Turkey has withdrawn from hosting the 2024 UN biodiversity summit, citing a force majeure following the three devastating earthquakes earlier in the year, officials confirmed this week.

A Tokyo-listed industrial gas and hydrogen supplier has teamed up with a government-backed forestry company in Western Australia for a forestry project in the hope of acquiring carbon credits abroad.

An Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) deal for credits sourced from an environmental plantings project has traded for nearly double the generic market price level, sending a clear market valuation for the credit type, a trader said Wednesday.

Canada’s The Mining Company (TMC) said Tuesday it will apply to the International Seabed Authority (ISA) for a deep sea mining licence after the ISA Council meeting in July next year, and expects to begin operations in an area more than twice as big as initially planned in Q4 2025.

A group of civil societies will take the century-long forest carbon deal between the Sabah state government and a Singaporean shell company to civil court, Malaysian media reported Wednesday.

A major telecommunication company in Japan has become the latest in the country to initiate an offset generation initiative that can reduce emissions from paddy rice cultivation, based on a newly announced methodology under the domestic scheme.

NZU prices have steadily declined the week following the government’s announced overhaul of the ETS price controls and settings, as foresters and farmers lament the government’s management of the scheme.

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A UK-based carbon-negative construction materials firm has raised £2 million in additional funding.

A carbon project developer tech service company has raised $10 mln in a Series A funding round, which will go towards expanding its global partnerships and project pipeline, it announced Tuesday.

A US-based agricultural carbon offset firm has expanded its offerings to include legumes in its cover crop mix.

The top two California Low Carbon Fuel Standard credit holders increased their share of the programme’s surplus credit bank over the six months ended in March, with the number two player’s holdings expanding the most, according to government data filed Monday.

Japan-based airline ANA on Tuesday announced it will purchase tens of thousands of tonnes of carbon removals from a direct air capture project in the Lone Star State.

Spot carbon credit prices under the Alberta Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction programme ticked up slightly in July, but stayed well within a months-long range amid summer trading doldrums, according to a report published Tuesday.

The Northeast and Mid-Atlantic US RGGI power sector cap-and-trade system saw CO2 emissions decline once again during the second quarter due to sizable abatement at facilities in Maryland and New York, programme data showed Tuesday.

Two US forest carbon firms on Tuesday announced they will collaborate to provide smaller, non-industrial landowners across 13 Southeastern states the opportunity to participate in voluntary offset markets.

A director at voluntary carbon market experts Climate Impact Partners has parted ways with the firm just a year into the role.

A pool of older offsets will have their eligibility extended for application under the South African carbon tax, according to a draft amendment released this week in a move that could boost supply in the domestic-only market that has seen offset use fall away over the past year.

Nordic nations dominate the top of a green technology index produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Review published on Tuesday and ranking 76 nations and territories on their progress toward a sustainable and low-carbon future.

The European Commission has adopted rules that will eventually require all listed companies operating in the EU to disclose their impact on the environment and how the climate affects their operations.