US climate tech firm targeting methane receives $10 mln investment

Published 22:45 on February 14, 2024  /  Last updated at 22:45 on February 14, 2024  / /  Americas, US

A climate solutions company specialising in technology to cut methane emissions and deliver affordable zero-emissions hydrogen has closed on a $10 million investment to further develop its offering.

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Carbon capture tech company eyeing $7-9 mln private fundraising

Published 22:13 on February 14, 2024  /  Last updated at 22:13 on February 14, 2024  / /  Americas, EMEA, US

A carbon capture technology company is looking to raise capital via a private placement of shares to fund expansion into the US and develop its technology further.  

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Enrolment imminent for $80-mln US climate-smart ag programme

Published 21:41 on February 13, 2024  /  Last updated at 21:41 on February 13, 2024  / /  Americas, Nature-based, US, Voluntary

An $80-million climate-smart agriculture programme in the US aiming to test a new model to measure net GHG impacts will soon be open for enrolment in four states.

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UPDATE: NZ ETS auction declines again, 23 mln NZUs to get cancelled

Published 00:21 on December 6, 2023  /  Last updated at 07:10 on December 6, 2023  / /  Asia Pacific, New Zealand

Wednesday’s quarterly NZ ETS auction declined, completing a year of failed allowance sales, which will result in the entire year’s worth of auction volume being cancelled.

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COP28: Plans to restart oil and gas exploration in New Zealand makes UN climate talks ‘awkward’

Published 06:26 on November 30, 2023  /  Last updated at 20:58 on November 30, 2023  / /  Asia Pacific, Climate Talks, International, New Zealand

Plans by the new right-wing coalition government in New Zealand to lift the ban of offshore oil and gas exploration will make things uncomfortable for the country’s negotiators at COP28, according to observers, with the Pacific nation often taking an outsized leadership role at the UN climate talks despite its small size.

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New Zealand emissions on track for historic low -minister

Published 05:56 on September 19, 2023  /  Last updated at 22:04 on September 19, 2023  / /  Asia Pacific, New Zealand

New Zealand is poised to announce its lowest emissions this century, the country’s climate minister, James Shaw, said on Tuesday.

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NZ Market: NZUs soar to fresh highs as climate commission doubles down on higher auction price settings

Published 04:23 on June 9, 2021  /  Last updated at 22:39 on November 23, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, International, Nature-based, New Zealand, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

New Zealand carbon allowances soared past NZ$40 ($28.81) to new record high levels on Wednesday, following the release of the independent Climate Change Commission’s final advice to the government on the country’s carbon budgets out to 2035.

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PREVIEW: NZ ETS participants brace for higher prices as auctions begin

Published 21:00 on March 14, 2021  /  Last updated at 21:56 on March 12, 2021  / /  Asia Pacific, New Zealand

Participants in New Zealand’s carbon market are expecting prices to trend higher this year, with this week’s start of allowance auctions heralding a new phase for the 13-year-old ETS.

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NZX begins NZU auction registration process

Published 04:46 on February 16, 2021  /  Last updated at 18:02 on February 16, 2021  / /  Asia Pacific, New Zealand

Would-be participants in New Zealand’s first emissions unit auction next month can now begin the registration process, exchange operator and platform host NZX said.

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Bilateral deals, not talks, likely to shape Article 6 emissions trade rules -NZ minister

Published 08:38 on November 26, 2020  /  Last updated at 22:44 on November 23, 2022  / /  Asia Pacific, Climate Talks, International, Nature-based, New Zealand, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

Rules for international emissions trade under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 are more likely to emerge from bilateral deals rather than via UN climate negotiations, according to New Zealand’s Climate Change Minster James Shaw.

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