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- Sun 22:49Guyana has sharply revised its national forest reference levels following a UN technical assessment that prompted extensive methodological corrections, reducing the country’s headline figures by more than half and significantly altering the treatment of both emissions and removals across multiple REDD+ activities.
- Sat 22:58Countries and civil society welcomed the Brazilian presidency's pledge to establish two roadmaps on transitioning away from fossil fuels and ending deforestation, even as several have described it only as a consolation prize after a reference to the two issues failed to make it into the main COP30 decisions.
- Brazil's international coalition could be uniquely positioned to facilitate mutual recognition of credits and knowledge exchange between countries amid a global explosion of carbon pricing systems - if certain steps are taken, experts said during COP30 in Belem.
- Sat 20:40As the world lags behind 2030 restoration targets, nine governments announced a new coalition which will coordinate planting 1 billion native trees on World Environment Day.
- Sat 17:53As the Brazilian presidency on Saturday gavelled through a Mutirao text and several negotiated decisions, officials and civil society offered mixed reactions – generally supporting COP30 policy advances and the spirit of multilateralism, while alternately welcoming or decrying efforts to secure climate finance.
- Sat 17:50Countries failed to strengthen international efforts to drive an energy transition after two fraught weeks of COP30 negotiations, beyond doubling down on an existing 2023 pledge, agreeing to speed up decarbonisation targets, and reaffirming last year's goal to boost climate finance.
- Day 12 at COP30 in Belem. The final day, as most expect, with Brazil frantically organising huddles throughout the night to push forward on the Belem Package deal. Meanwhile, possible 'quorum', whereby not enough parties are present to seal a deal, was also looming over negotiations, leaving the presidency to scramble to achieve consensus with time fast running out.
- Sat 08:51Forest surface fuel biochar offers a cost-effective wildfire mitigation alternative that can deliver substantial carbon sequestration, soil-health improvements, and pollution-control benefits, according to new research.
- Fri 20:52A winning XPRIZE team is using its award funding to launch a new financial vehicle aimed at shifting conservation leadership into the hands of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs).
- Fri 20:24The European Commission has adopted the first piece of secondary legislation under the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation, marking the initial step toward putting the EU’s new voluntary framework for certifying carbon removals, carbon farming, and carbon storage in products into operation.
- Fri 18:28COP30: FEATURE – Tropical forest fund can complement carbon markets but may jeopardise additionalityThe Brazilian-led tropical forest fund should support carbon markets by reducing regulatory risk to attract private capital, and providing more funds to forest preservation, observers have said, though there is also risk that carbon project additionality gets undermined.
- Parties in Belem agreed not to significantly change existing decisions made on Article 6 and to channel nearly $30 million to the new Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) from the Kyoto Protocol-era Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), as part of decisions made at COP30 on Friday.
- Fri 14:27Bio-based building materials – Russia’s carbon unit registry administrator, Kontur, has opened a public consultation on a draft methodology for crediting the climate benefits of bio-based building materials. Stakeholders have one month, until Dec. 22, to submit comments, which will be published once included in Kontur’s database, the registry operator said. Interested stakeholders may submit comments on the methodology via an online form.
- Day 11 in Belem, and the last scheduled day of negotiations. Less than 12 hours after COP30 talks were suspended, and the venue evacuated, after a fire erupted in the pavilion area, the Brazilian presidency dropped its Belem Package of texts.
- Fri 12:36Climate pledges are increasingly placing emphasis on biodiversity, but they will remain ineffective unless they incorporate spatial data, an expert has told Carbon Pulse.
