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- Tue 00:01Countries with forest pledges must generate more funding to advance efforts countering deforestation, according to findings published on Tuesday by a network of research organisations, NGOs, and advocacy groups.
- Tue 00:01Malaysian timber companies control nearly all large-scale forest-clearing permits in Papua New Guinea (PNG), according to data released Tuesday by environmental groups that accused these organisations of driving deforestation and exploiting landowners.
- Mon 22:10
Swapped out – Marco Arenas Aspilcueta has been selected as Peru’s new head of the General Directorate of Climate Change and Desertification. He replaces Berioska Quispe, a staunch carbon markets advocate, who held the role since Apr. 2024 and presided over Peru’s submission of an Indigenous Jurisdictional REDD+ Concept Note to the ART standard. Aspilcueta was previously Director-General of Biological Diversity, also within the Ministry of Environment (MINAM). An agricultural engineer by training, he has self-identified as an expert in territorial management, protected areas, climate change, and Indigenous participation and governance.
- The split between legacy and high-integrity carbon credits continues to widen with analysts introducing new price indices last week, while market experts told the Carbon Forward Expo London that it was still “too soon” for Phase 1 of CORSIA to fully take off.
- Mon 16:24Projects conserving and restoring nature are still generally considered too risky by many private sector investors, but five short-term interventions could help reframe this, an expert told Carbon Pulse.
- Mon 15:21Thirty Indigenous and community organisations, joined by rights-based groups, have last week called on global voluntary programme ART to tighten social and governance safeguards in its draft TREES 3.0 jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) standard.
- Mon 14:07An initiative backed by the German government has officially launched with the aim of boosting forest restoration efforts throughout Latin America.
- Mon 13:41The project proponent of a troubled REDD project in Zimbabwe faces a huge compensation bill after the avoided deforestation activity was withdrawn from the Verra registry, but due to a technical mechanism in the standard body's rules, this outcome could have been avoided, a source close to the matter confirmed to Carbon Pulse.
- Mon 10:45Most tropical forest carbon offset projects significantly exaggerate their climate impact, raising concerns about the credibility of the voluntary carbon market and its role in global emissions reduction, according to a recently published peer-reviewed study.
- Mon 09:44Nepal has launched a series of tenders with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) for technical assistance to implement a national carbon registry, design a carbon pricing policy, and develop a carbon finance handbook, as it moves to establish a national carbon market framework.
- Mon 07:19The world has reached its first climate tipping point, triggered by the widespread bleaching and death of warm water corals around the globe, scientists warned in a report published Monday.
