Carbon Pulse

*PREMIUM LISTING - Volkswagen ClimatePartner GmbH is a joint venture by Volkswagen Kraftwerk GmbH and ClimatePartner GmbH, aiming to develop and finance quality carbon offset projects. Our projects are proven to save CO2-emissions and are certified under recognized standards.

*PREMIUM LISTING - As Head (m/f/d) of the Project Development Team, you will be responsible for the Project Development Team, its strategy, and all project related tasks regarding origination, financing, development, and operation of a portfolio of mainly forestry and renewable energy projects.

*PREMIUM LISTING - As part of Volkswagen ClimatePartner, you will be responsible for the quality assurance of carbon offset projects being in the initiation phase or already in the portfolio. You will ensure compliance with the standards both with contractors and projects developers.

*PREMIUM LISTING - Become part of our ClimatePartner Impact team in Munich, where we support our clients in selecting or developing certified, high-quality projects to offset their unabated emissions.

The work of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (IC-VCM) is important for ensuring high standards in the VER space, Gold Standard said Tuesday in comments that separate the offset certifier from its largest competitor.

Initially reporting to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Project Director - Kasempa will start prior to the validation of the project and as such, will play in an integral part in informing the project design activities across sites within Kasempa. This position will facilitate meetings, coordinate with local authorities, train on-ground teams, and work with technical and implementation partners to ensure objectives are met.

A nascent digital MRV platform and marketplace for “high-quality” carbon removal credits has raised €5.5 million in new investor funding.

A Texas-based fossil fuel company achieved net zero Scope 1 emissions last year by retiring carbon credits dating back to the mid-2000s from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) projects used for Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), according to the company’s 2022 sustainability report released Monday.

Carbon credits will most certainly be more expensive than their alternatives when they include authorisations from host-country governments, speakers at a virtual event said on Tuesday, pointing to another factor that would differentiate credits and complicate fungibility in the market.

Forthcoming talks on how to finance part of the EU's rapid exit from Russian fossil fuels promise to be heated, with lawmakers and member states at odds over which carbon allowances to raise €20 billion from, though both are critical of a Brussels plan to tap the supply-managing MSR.

A global cross-stakeholder body has set out guidance aiming to shape nature markets that it says eventually could be worth nearly 9% of global GDP, and including initiatives such as voluntary carbon credits, conservation, soft commodities and nature-based solutions for carbon sequestration. 

Companies are set to face a maze of intersecting climate risk reporting requirements as early drafts of three competing rulebooks and comments analysed by Carbon Pulse reveal an array of differences on key issues such as emissions scope, oversight, and offset use.

California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) credit values on Tuesday veered towards levels not seen since summer 2016 as market participants reported numerous credit generators were on offer.

The world is risking "immense" consequences for the climate as Russia looks to burn excess gas no longer being sent to Europe, while experts believe a series of gas leaks from the Nord Stream pipelines this week will worsen the situation. 

The UK is on track to spend £473 billion by 2050 to feed its reliance on fossil gas, despite the availability of lower-cost, zero-emission solutions, according to a new report by IEEFA, while an alternative decarbonisation pathway would avoid £100 billion in international payments for gas supplies.

There is an "urgent need" for Australian Safeguard facilities to access international carbon credits that have been correspondingly adjusted in line with Paris Agreement rules, oil and gas company Woodside said Tuesday.

EUA prices gave up some of the previous session's sharp gains early on Tuesday as traders absorbed the implications of the European Parliament's preliminary deal on REPowerEU carbon sales, while energy prices rose strongly after reports of leaks in undersea sections of the Nord Stream gas pipeline system.

An energy analyst has left analytics firm ICIS to join a London-based fund.

A Chinese province has published a set of work guidelines that lays out how lawbreakers can be made to buy forestry carbon sinks under an ecological compensation scheme, the first of its kind in the country that has drawn mixed feedback from observers.

An India-based carbon project developer has expanded its production facilities, more than quadrupling the number of cookstoves it can produce annually to 5 million.