Argentine carbon markets bill centres national registry, empowers regulator
Argentina’s new carbon bill prescribes a revitalised national registry but defers key details regarding Article 6 and the voluntary market (VCM) to a domestic regulatory body, diverging from more explicit approaches seen in other Latin American countries.
Read MorePanama imposes moratorium on forest carbon projects
Panama on Friday established a temporary moratorium on forest carbon projects and decided to apply state assessment procedures.
Read MoreArgentine congress debuts carbon markets bill -media
Argentina’s carbon industry organisation has partnered with members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senate to present a carbon markets bill in both houses of the national legislature, according to local media.
Read MoreBrazilian prosecutor’s office asks to escalate state-level carbon market cases to feds
Brazil’s Federal Public Prosecutor’s office (MPF) on Tuesday called upon state courts to decline three carbon project cases in favour of federal jurisdiction, in the name of addressing carbon markets questions of national consequence.
Read MoreCOP16: INTERVIEW – Bioenergy flies under the radar at biodiversity negotiations
Contentious government support for bioenergy could qualify as a subsidy harmful to biodiversity under the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), but the topic could be sidelined entirely at COP16 by the focus on other agenda items, an NGO policy expert has told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreCOP16: CSO letter with over 140 signatories calls for greater finance, protection for water and wetlands
A joint letter signed by over 140 civil society organisations (CSOs) and experts has laid out priority areas for promoting the health of water and wetlands, highlighting COP16 themes of finance and the nature-climate nexus.
Read MoreNGOs, private sector must abandon orthodoxy to scale nature-based CDR -panellists
Conservation non-profits, investors, and offtakers alike must step outside their traditional ideologies if nature-based carbon removals (CDR) are to scale, according to the architects of a major CDR deal speaking at COP16 in Cali, Colombia on Friday.
Read MoreCOP16: INTERVIEW – South Pole launches habitat bank for Colombian biodiversity compliance market
Carbon project developer and biodiversity crediting entrant South Pole on Friday announced the launch of a restoration-focused ‘habitat bank’ in partnership with Colombian non-profit Salvamontes at COP16 in Cali.
Read MoreRevised Cercarbono REDD methodology to incorporate jurisdictional, nesting needs
Colombia-based international carbon standard Cercarbono is building compatibility with ‘nesting’ and jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) into its forthcoming updated REDD+ methodology.
Read MoreCOP16: LATAM development bank invests in conservation via blockchain, biodiversity credits
CAF, the Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean, will collaborate on a blockchain-based conservation instrument and support marine biodiversity credits in the region, it announced at COP16 on Thursday.
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