- Fri 14:54Mongolia and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) have launched a project to help the climate finance-strapped country build the systems and rules needed to take part in international carbon markets, backed by funding from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), they announced Friday.
- Fri 14:37The South African G20 presidency and a group of NGOs are spearheading a programme to scale financing for the bioeconomy in Africa, with nature credits among the instruments that will be explored, as they seek to pave the way for other regions to follow suit.
- Fri 12:32A US-based carbon removal (CDR) buyers' coalition is close to unveiling its first afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) offtake agreements after announcing that final due diligence processes are now underway.
- The European Commission on Friday announced an intention to withdraw its proposal for the Green Claims Directive, in answer to a question by Carbon Pulse at its daily press briefing.
- One-sided critique – Media coverage of a community-focused carbon project in Tanzania was one-sided, the Dutch Press Council (DPC) has said. Project developer, Carbon Tanzania, complained to the DPC about an article published about its nature-based Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape Project in the Dutch newspaper, Trouw. Although the DPC said there were no serious factual inaccuracies in the article, it concluded it was biased in its coverage, stating that its claims and accusations were published without sufficient basis or a proper cross-examination. Trouw corrected some errors in Feb. 2025, after Carbon Tanzania initially raised concerns with the paper.
- Fri 10:17CCUS for coal - Jera and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have signed an MoU for a joint study to build a CCUS value chain at the Yokosuka coal-fired power plant using the latter’s carbon capture kit. This will be the first test of CO2 capture at a coal plant on Tokyo Bay, the partners said. Jera owns and operates the plant, which went online in 2023 and replaced gas and light oil with coal as fuel. It is classified as an ‘ultra-supercritical’ plant, or of much higher efficiency than older coal plants. Jera plans to use ammonia over coal at its plants by financial 2030, using a mix at its less efficient plants and 100% at its high efficiency ones. Kawasaki’s tech uses a solid sorbent to absorb the CO2 from the post-combustion gas stream and then capture with 60C steam made from waste heat. Capturing post-combustion CO2 from energy and industrial processes is higher cost and higher energy than pre-combustion from natural gas wells.
- Fri 10:16Singapore on Friday released a draft guide for companies on voluntary use of carbon credits, recommending alignment with international “meta-standards” such as the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (ICVCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCPs).
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