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- Thu 00:00The voluntary carbon market risks losing its credibility and becoming a "market for lemons" unless it adopts rigorous and systematic after-the-fact evaluation of emissions reductions, researchers warned in a new study.
- Wed 23:01The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) released a draft decarbonisation strategy targeting the maritime and aviation sectors, with a focus on sustainable fuels and carbon removals to achieve its mandated net negative transport emissions goal by 2045.
- Wed 22:50Disturbed forest areas in Canada’s boreal forests may be struggling to regenerate thanks to moose grazing, contributing to a significant drop of carbon being stored in these major carbon sinks, according to a study published Tuesday.
- Wed 22:40Panama on Wednesday published a national roadmap to guide its incoming national carbon market (MNCP), betting heavily on voluntary corporate offsetting to drive demand, operationalise a future registry, and trade on a planned carbon exchange.
- Wed 19:54Brazil’s Caatinga biome has an annual capacity for some 8.4 million REDD+ credits and 472,000 afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) credits, according to a report published Wednesday.
- Gold Standard registered a record number of new projects last year as its focus on community service reaped dividends, the organisation revealed in an annual report.
- Wed 15:08US-based credit standard Verra has pushed back against a new report criticising the voluntary carbon market (VCM), arguing it overlooks recent progress and risks undermining the only system channelling climate finance to vulnerable communities.
- Wed 13:14Operating profits tumbled last year at one of the oldest project developers and originators in the voluntary carbon market, highlighting the “challenging year” that saw companies shun philanthropy and focus on their own supply chains.
- Wed 12:04The Supervisory Body for the Article 6.4 carbon crediting mechanism has clarified to Carbon Pulse that the authority may not define what is an acceptable claim in the voluntary market, in response to uncertainty over how issued Mitigation Contribution Units (MCUs) can be used by corporate buyers.
- Wed 06:19The UN-backed Green Climate Fund (GCF) on Tuesday approved more than $300 million in funding for projects across the Global South, going to a range of results-based forestry, fishery, and agriculture initiatives.
