Carbon Pulse

Windstorms could significantly reduce the ability of forests to act as carbon sinks, posing a major threat to national climate mitigation strategies that rely on these ecosystems to absorb greenhouse gases, according to researchers.

The German government has opened its first online consultation to assess CO2 removal and storage methods as part of the country’s planned long-term negative emissions strategy, according to media sources.

Verra will restructure its organisation and cut its workforce by around a quarter, it announced Monday, as the voluntary carbon standard and registry deals with slowing market demand and mounting financial losses.

A Brazilian jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) saga continues to unfold, RenovaBio sees a mixed bag of outcomes, and the world prepares to descend on Cali, Colombia, for the COP16 UN biodiversity conference.

WWF on Monday released the conditions it requires for it to be able to potentially endorse the sale of voluntary biodiversity credits, including no offsetting.

Brazilian public prosecutors sent a letter last week to the environmental secretariat of Para, demanding transparency in information and public consultation with local stakeholders in the state’s $180-million jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) deal announced last month.

The UK government’s recent £21.7 billion funding announcement for carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) projects “is low on details and high on rhetoric”, and will likely result in “the waste of public money”, according to new analysis.

Indonesia will work to enhance its food and energy security with a place for coal in the energy mix, incoming President Prabowo Subianto said in his inauguration speech Sunday, after winning the election in February.

The cost and performance of an innovative type of direct air capture technology are heavily influenced by local environmental conditions, a new study has found.

European carbon allowances handed back gains of as much as 1.1% on Monday morning to reach midday marginally weaker on the day, as EUA prices broke away from their link to natural gas amid a resumption of the selling pressure that drove the market down last week.

Government-backed Taiwan Carbon Solution Exchange on Monday unveiled a platform exclusively for the trading of domestically issued carbon credits, as the island seeks to complement its carbon pricing framework.

A Japanese blue carbon hopeful has set its sights on Dec. 2025 as the date by which it expects to gain J Blue credit certification for its seaweed farming project, though has made no mention of the numbers of credits it plans to generate.

The Russian Carbon Units Registry has conducted its first international sale of carbon credits from a forest project in Krasnoyarsk to an investment fund in the United Arab Emirates, local media reported last week.

Japan’s largest LNG developer has partnered with a local power company for a joint study on capturing post-combustion CO2 in Japan for transport to Australia for permanent sequestration.

European heavy industries like aluminum and steel should embrace the flexibility that comes with electrification, rather than persist in operating continuously and prolonging dependence on fossil fuels, a report warned.

The transition to sustainable heating solutions is stalling across European countries due to collapsing heat pump sales, which are putting 170,000 jobs at risk, researchers have warned.

Financial players cut their holdings across the board of North American carbon in the most recent report from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), while emitters also reduced their exposure to California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) but built net length in RGGI allowances (RGAs) and Washington Carbon Allowances (WCAs).

Washington state's considerations for changes to the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) to facilitate linkage with WCI partners California and Quebec must resolve ambiguity surrounding electricity imports and address varying offset protocols, comments to the draft amendments showed.

Up to $41 billion in World Bank climate finance, almost 40% of the total funds the institution has disbursed over the past seven years, is unaccounted for, according to a new report by Oxfam published on Thursday.

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $58.5 million in funding on Friday to develop commercially viable CO2 removal (CDR) technologies.