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- ICE Futures Europe has proposed changes to the trading calendar and delivery timelines for its CORSIA-eligible and nature-based carbon credit futures, in a move aimed at aligning the contracts more closely with established compliance market conventions.
- Thu 20:11Paraguay’s government is ramping up efforts to finalise and operationalise Bilateral Agreements (BAs) with existing partners, while holding discussions with major buyer countries in international trade under Paris Agreement Article 6.2, two senior officials told Carbon Pulse.
- Thu 16:30A global carbon management platform has raised $7 million in fresh capital, doubling its total funding, as investor appetite grows for tools that can translate corporate emissions data into operational decision-making.
- Thu 15:14China’s grip on clean energy technologies has left other countries exposed to supply chain shocks in key manufacturing sectors like solar PV, wind power, heat pumps, and batteries, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA).
- Thu 13:08The UN’s climate chief has welcomed India’s newly approved 2035 climate targets as a boost to clean energy growth and economic development, although analysts and campaigners have warned the plans may fall short of driving deeper emissions cuts.
- Thu 11:44Nuclear nucleus – Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) is to commission three studies looking into international safety standards and potential environmental impacts of nuclear power facilities, as the country considers deployment of the energy source. In a press release on Thursday, the NEA said the three studies would consider things such as how to design and operate reactors safely, environmental standards, and how to protect public health. Nuclear is essential to holding global warming to 2C, Carbon Forward Asia attendees heard on Tuesday.
- Thu 10:40Adoption of an emissions trading system is considered a crucial aspect of Taiwan's climate policy agenda, but the exact market design requires more deliberation about policy linkage and liquidity, a webinar heard this week.
- Thu 09:57Australia should use its role as president of the COP31 negotiations to advance a decarbonisation deals platform to bridge the gap between Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) ambitions and economic implementation, the country’s Climate Change Authority (CCA) has proposed.
- Thu 09:30Challenges around additionality, financing, and limited demand are emerging as key constraints for scaling blue carbon markets, even as interest in high-quality projects remains strong, experts said on Thursday.
- Thu 05:17Tender open (again) - The government of Balochistan in Pakistan has reopened bids for the Khor blue carbon offset project, a large-scale initiative aimed at restoring coastal ecosystems and generating carbon credits through afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation activities. Being developed under a public-private partnership framework in collaboration with the Balochistan Public Private Partnership Authority, the project will cover 34,351 ha along the province’s coastal belt and is expected to sequester over 300,000 tonnes of CO2e annually. Bids for the project are open until Apr. 15.
- Thu 04:00Climate advisory awarded grant to scale agroforestry in Timor-Leste, generating 20 MtCO2 of removalsA global climate investment and advisory firm has been awarded up to $25 million to develop a blended finance platform to scale a Timor-Leste community agroforestry programme with the potential to generate up to 20 mln verified carbon credits over its lifetime.
- Thu 03:18Carbon pricing schemes deliver significant emissions reductions, but their effectiveness can be more than doubled when combined with well-aligned climate policies, according to a new study.
- Thu 02:20Blue carbon potential - China's national voluntary CCER programme has registered its first blue carbon project, according to a statement released this week by the China Quality Certification Center (CQC). The project, developed by government affiliate Third Institute of Oceanography, is expected to generate 32,466 carbon credits through mangrove restoration in Fujian province during 2016-23. It represents a replicable and scalable path for realising the value of marine carbon sinks in China, CQC said.
- Thu 00:01A new satellite-based monitoring tool aims to detect early-stage risks in forest carbon projects, offering developers and investors faster visibility into project performance.
