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New York-based crypto climate firm Flowcarbon will make its GNT token and other carbon credits available for trading on the recently launched Senken platform.

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A private equity firm has purchased a majority state in a French nature-based solutions project developer.

Under the direct supervision of the Team Lead administratively for UNFCCC-IGES Regional Collaboration Centre  for Asia and the Pacific based in Bangkok (RCC Bangkok), and in close collaboration and direction from substantive teams in Bonn, the expert(s) will support Parties within  Asia and the Pacific on the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

The seventh instalment of Carbon Forward - the premier annual carbon markets conference - is back next week, and it's stacked with a first class line-up of speakers ready to discuss the risks and opportunities across the rapidly evolving global climate policy landscape.

CCAs are projected to rise to the first allowance price containment reserve (APCR) trigger by 2027, while RGAs are forecast to prompt a cost containment reserve (CCR) trigger price by 2024, according a report issued Thursday by a London-based analytics firm.

California Carbon Allowance (CCA) and RGGI Allowance (RGA) prices rallied alongside broader markets over the last week after nearly two months of declining price action.

A Brazilian bank has voluntarily cancelled the largest ever batch of carbon credits issued under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

EUAs inched up on Thursday following a strong auction but failed to match the previous session's move above €70, as traders fretted about the potential for the EU to advance more carbon sales to help pay for the REPowerEU's initiative.

Global financial service group Macquarie announced a new partnership on Thursday to establish a pipeline of “high-quality” nature-based carbon offset projects, with the aim to help corporates and other clients advance their climate commitments.

Although last year’s UN COP26 UN climate summit in Glasgow ended with an agreement to “accelerate efforts towards the phasedown of unabated coal”, almost half of the companies tracked by NGOs in a global database are still heading in the opposite direction.

Sunlight may soon shine into the opaque world of carbon credit use, with offset disclosure a key requirement under forthcoming corporate reporting rules – paving the way to credibility and integrity assessments at both the investor and policy-maker levels.

There are a lot of challenges to overcome before carbon pricing systems can spread across Africa, experts told an event Thursday, despite recent announcements across multiple nations in the region that flagged markets in development.

Norway is introducing a floor price for its indirect EU ETS cost compensation scheme to shield its energy-intensive industries from carbon leakage as the government seeks to rein in future costs.

A consortium of players in the energy and shipping industries launched a project this week to explore the viability of carbon capture on vessels, reflecting a push to explore the utilisation of the technology to reduce emissions from shipping, a sector which is heavily dependent on fossil fuels but faces increasing pressure to decarbonise its operations.

The Western Australia Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has flagged the possibility of not recommending new polluting projects based on their Scope 3 GHG emissions.

The New Zealand government on Thursday proposed to give local councils a greater say in regulating carbon forestry as it launched yet another ETS consultation that pushed the NZU price up by almost 6%.

Almost all of the world’s largest corporate emitters do not sufficiently acknowledge climate risks in their financial statements, leaving investors ‘in the dark’ as to whether and how their financial reporting takes into account the impacts of climate change, according to a report released on Thursday.

A group of firms on Thursday announced the launch of a venture that will generate carbon credits and other environmental products across the Asian region for the voluntary market.

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