Carbon Pulse

Climate watchdog RimbaWatch has released a draft guide that aims to define what practices constitute greenwashing in Southeast Asia.

A record number of Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) projects were registered in the third quarter this year, according to regulatory data.

Singapore’s H2G Green Limited launched two LNG projects aiming to decarbonise the emissions-heavy commodity.

An overlooked clause in the EU ETS directive could be used as a way to integrate carbon removals in the bloc’s carbon trading system and unlock credits under the United Nation's CORSIA scheme for offsetting aviation emissions, according to policy experts.

Australia has announced it will develop voluntary GHG accounting standards for the agriculture, fisheries, and forestry sectors, and has established a reference group to guide this work.

Canopy is planning to target raising between $300-500 million with a private equity fund tackling nature loss through investment in sustainable materials technologies, and seeks first close in the first quarter of 2025, Carbon Pulse has learned.

The ongoing Cali biodiversity talks could lay the groundwork for the success of the final round of the upcoming negotiations on the long-awaited UN treaty to address plastic pollution, the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) executive director told Carbon Pulse Sunday.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit prices abruptly sold off nearly 13% last week from year-to-date (YtD) highs reached earlier this month, after backlash on the potential impact that proposed changes to the scheme may have on retail gasoline prices, which the regulator continues to challenge.

The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is set to release a beta version of a nature data public facility in 2025 to enable pilot testing with companies, in a bid to catalyse data funding, it announced on Saturday.

Negotiators at the UN biodiversity summit in Cali scored some minor victories during the first half of the talks, but all the major issues remain deadlocked and will likely need ministers to put real money on the table next week to be resolved, according to experts.

A Swedish consortium on Saturday announced a global biodiversity credit standard focused on production landscapes, with plans to establish an independent, non-profit standard-setting organisation within six months.

UN negotiations in Colombia have led to "excellent progress" towards creating a new process for identifying key marine biodiversity areas, in a move that observers consider essential for achieving some of the most critical global ocean targets.

Africa’s largest conservation organisation and a Germany-based nature tech company are set to issue 14,000 nature units, for a total value of approximately $35 million, generated through conservation projects across four African countries, Carbon Pulse has learned.

A France-based organisation has published a market framework to align biodiversity credit projects with national strategies, enabling companies to claim their contribution to governments' targets on nature, the co-founders told Carbon Pulse.

Contentious government support for bioenergy could qualify as a subsidy harmful to biodiversity under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), but the topic could be sidelined entirely at COP16 by the focus on other agenda items, an NGO policy expert has told Carbon Pulse.

The UK should commit to cutting its greenhouse gas emissions by 81% from 1990 levels by 2035, the country’s Climate Change Committee (CCC) has recommended, as part of the country’s updated contribution to the Paris Agreement ahead of the COP29 climate summit in Azerbaijan next month.

Ghana is on track to transact its first batch of Article 6 carbon credits before the end of Q1 2025, according to government officials.

A joint letter signed by over 140 civil society organisations (CSOs) and experts has laid out priority areas for promoting the health of water and wetlands, highlighting COP16 themes of finance and the nature-climate nexus.

Carbon standards body Verra this week released an updated version of methodology for Improved Forest Management (IFM) projects that seek to earn carbon credits through preventing logging.

Traders continue to roll into V25 California Carbon Allowance (CCA) holdings, reducing V24 exposure over the last week, while producers increased RGGI Allowance (RGA) futures and options net length ahead of November compliance deadlines, according data released Friday from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).