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- Fri 00:20US President Donald Trump launched hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to protect coal plants and mines on Thursday, using powers under wartime authority to dole out much of the funding.
- Fri 00:10California Carbon Allowance (CCA) futures rose to five-month highs following the long-awaited approval of programme updates by California regulator ARB late last week, although traders expressed mixed expectations whether prices would hold at current levels.
- Fri 00:06RGGI rebellion - The New Jersey Business & Industry Association (NJBIA) has launched a "Rethink RGGI" campaign to promote a policy alternative to the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic power sector cap-and-trade scheme. The NJBIA is promoting to replace the state's RGGI regulation with a flat $7 per short ton fee on all generators in the state. The proposal is meant to lower energy costs for New Jersey consumers while protecting competitiveness and maintaining in-state investment in clean energy and environmental programmes, the NJBIA said.
- Thu 23:43Alberta market participants are pricing credits for "materially looser market conditions" as the price floor laid out in the Canada-Alberta carbon deal looks set to fail, charting a path to increased emissions by the mid-2030s without tighter stringency, a new analysis said.
- Thu 23:01An initiative led by major oil and gas providers called for harmonisation of reporting standards for carbon capture and storage (CCS) and engineered carbon removals (CDR), saying addressing gaps would enable the industry to accelerate towards climate goals.
- Thu 22:46Data centre win, climate goal loss - North Carolina has passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, an energy bill which would require data centres to cover costs for new energy infrastructure, extend the life of coal-fired power plants, and calls for more fossil fuel infrastructure. E&E News reported the bill also jeopardises the state’s long-term climate goal as it solicits a study of the state’s 2050 net zero target.
- Thu 19:14A Canadian-headquartered forestry company this week reported progress towards its climate targets, including lower emissions and new revenues from carbon market activities, in its latest sustainability report.
- Thu 16:49Natural forest expansion across the moist tropics has sequestered more above-ground carbon than secondary forests, but the sink remains far smaller than emissions from tropical forest loss, according to a new study.
- EU-approved CORSIA Phase 1 supply, based on provisional eligibility criteria, could reach as many as 160 million credits across the three-year period, according to a rating agency, but the company urged that Brussels takes a more moderate stance as this total is unlikely to be anywhere near as high in reality.
- Thu 16:00Colombia has published a draft carbon markets decree addressing technical and safeguarding concerns with tools that don’t yet exist, also imposing new responsibilities on domestic and international entities, but leaving key implementation questions open.
- A Dutch court has cleared the way for Greenpeace International to pursue legal action against US pipeline operator Energy Transfer, rejecting the company's attempt to have the anti-intimidation case dismissed and allowing proceedings to move to the merits stage.
- Thu 12:53This summer’s World Cup will emit more than twice as much CO2 as the carbon footprint of the last football bonanza in Qatar in 2022, finds research published on Thursday.
- A Canadian bank has signed a deal to purchase 18,000 verified direct air capture (DAC) carbon removal (CDR) credits from a Montreal-headquartered project developer, it was announced on Thursday.
- Thu 10:29A fresh lobbying campaign in the US to mandate fossil fuel companies to use carbon removal (CDR) technology may garner support from the oil sector, an academic and sectoral expert told Carbon Pulse this week.
- Thu 07:01Companies should split net zero targets between emissions cuts they can deliver themselves and reductions that depend on wider system change, as part of a more honest approach to corporate climate commitments, according to a report published Thursday.
- Thu 06:10Optimising composting practices using machine learning could transform the global organic waste sector from a net greenhouse gas emitter into a carbon sink while conserving nutrients for agriculture, according to a new study.
- Several governments across Latin America and the Caribbean are studying how to replicate Argentina's Misiones programme after it became the first jurisdictional REDD+ initiative approved under Verra's Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework, the standard's regional representative told Carbon Pulse.Â
- Thu 02:35Chile has issued a Letter of Authorisation (LoA) for a biogas landfill mitigation project, with the government also looking to operationalise two other bilateral agreements and preparing to assess a new batch of projects next month, a senior government official said this week at the Latin American Climate Summit (LACS).
- Thu 01:18The Mexican government is aiming to publish the regulation required to make its emissions trading system (ETS) fully operational by the end of 2026, accompanied by a national programme to boost local supply of carbon credits, according to a federal official.
- Thu 01:10Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has awarded C$130 million ($93.6 mln) in federal funding to 56 forestry innovation projects, ranging from new low-carbon wood technologies, to supporting Indigenous participation and forest-sector businesses.
