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- Wed 23:47Senegal expects to have its carbon market regulatory framework and national registry ready in the coming months, as the country moves to position itself as a frontrunner in Africa’s rapidly-expanding Article 6 landscape.
- Wed 23:31
ABC, easy as climate – Belgium will use COP30 to strengthen climate partnerships, pledging €5 mln to a new fund protecting the Congo Basin's tropical forests from EU ETS revenue, Belga News Agency reported. The amount is an initial tranche of its "ABC Plan" (Africa-Belgium-Climate). Separately, Belgium signed an MoU with Brazil to cooperate on green hydrogen, linking the Belgian Hydrogen Council, Flanders Investment & Trade, and the Brazilian Association of the Green Hydrogen Industry to assess a bilateral supply chain.
- Wed 23:21Mongolia is set to soon announce its partnership with Switzerland to facilitate carbon credit collaboration via Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, the country's environment minister said Wednesday.
- Wed 22:14Mexico's updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) leaves key implementation questions unanswered, with operational details deferred to future programmes.
- Wed 21:54A new Central African forestry initiative is circumventing the carbon market in order to reward the people and communities who plant trees, rather than those that cause deforestation in the first place, according to a government official from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Wed 21:51Turkiye has won the race to host COP31 in the resort city of Antalya in 2026, beating out Australia, with both countries agreeing to share the presidency in an unprecedented arrangement for UN climate negotiations.
- Wed 20:16China is using the void left behind by the US to become essential to the world meeting its climate goals – by offering its bounty of clean energy technology, as opposed to more traditional diplomatic leadership at venues like COP30, experts say.
- Wed 19:22Bolivia’s new centre-right administration is drafting a regulatory framework to support participation in voluntary and compliance carbon markets to channel climate finance into local communities, two officials said on Wednesday.
- Wed 19:08Jet2 has cut its carbon compliance bill by more than a fifth in the first half of its financial year after locking in cheaper EU and UK ETS prices, with the UK leisure airline also boosting its 2026 emissions hedge to 90% as it prepares for higher obligations under expanding fuel-use and SAF-mandate rules.
- Wed 18:48A group of energy policy researchers has called on the EU to postpone, or entirely reconsider, its plan to apply the bloc’s new Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to imported electricity starting in Jan. 2026.
- Wed 18:11Norway and Senegal have signed a bilateral trade agreement under Article 6 on the sidelines of COP30 in Belem.
- Wed 15:32Ukraine can use both compliance and voluntary carbon markets to help finance its green reconstruction and reach its 2050 net zero goal, but it needs strict governance and alignment with Paris Agreement principles, according to an academic report.
- The greater stability and private-sector integration in Article 6.2 make it more suited to durable carbon removals (CDR) than the Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), according to the chief commercial officer at a removals standard.
- Wed 13:30Eight countries announced support on Wednesday for a Brazil-led initiative aimed at scaling billions of dollars in investment to restore farmland globally.
- The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is on course to cease operations at the end of 2026, as parties in Belem appear to have finally agreed on a date to move on from the Kyoto Protocol-era crediting system.
- Wed 11:47Countries at the ongoing COP30 climate summit should take measures to help the agricultural sector transition towards sustainable practices, including by making funding more efficient, a seed trade organisation told Carbon Pulse.
- Wed 11:38New Zealand's climate minister Simon Watts took to the stage in Belem calling for COP30 to ensure the world keeps the 1.5C goal alive, however NGOs and experts back home derided his remarks following a series of policy changes that have weakened the country's climate ambitions.
- Wed 11:12Capacity gaps, policy misalignment hamper Article 6 progress in South and Southwest Asia, ESCAP saysCapacity constraints and fragmented policy frameworks are holding back Article 6 progress in South and Southwest Asia (SSWA), with countries unable to fully engage in international carbon markets due to institutional, technical, and regulatory shortcomings, the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has said.
- Wed 11:08A 10-year plan by the government of Gabon has raised $180 million in commitments for conservation investments to protect an additional 3.4 mln hectares of land.
- Day 9 at COP30 in Belem. It really is crunch time now. Brazil wants to force through a Belem Package of measures - made up of the hardest problems to solve like climate finance and fossil fuel phaseout - on Wednesday. Article 6 formalities could also well be wrapped up. Seasoned observers note with admiration how excellent the presidency has been so far, but there are still four days for fireworks.
- Wed 05:00Gold Standard on Wednesday opened public consultations on two new methodologies for early retirement of coal plants and other fossil fuel assets, as support for a roadmap for shifting away from non-renewable power sources picks up steam at COP30 in Belem.
- Wed 02:01G20 countries have the opportunity to collectively reduce 11 billion tonnes of C02e below expected levels by 2030 if they implement energy and methane mitigation goals agreed upon during the COP28 climate summit in 2023, according to analysis published Wednesday.
- Wed 01:04There has been pushback in the negotiating rooms at COP30 on the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) landmark advisory opinion on climate change, despite countries referencing it in public statements, Vanuatu climate minister Ralph Regenvanu said on Tuesday.
- Wed 00:54The start of a roadmap for the transition away from fossil fuels looks poised to be a defining outcome of Brazil’s COP30 climate summit – whether it’s agreed or not – as more than 80 countries threw their weight behind the proposal on Tuesday.
