Environmental law charity targets asset manager over ‘sustainable’ funds allegedly financing fossil fuels
An environmental law charity has filed a complaint to the French financial regulator over allegations that an asset manager’s so-called “sustainable” funds are in fact funding fossil fuels.
Read MoreCarbon accounting needs a more unified approach to reach net zero, say researchers
Net-zero efforts are currently undermined by the large array of carbon accounting systems available, a research paper has suggested.
Read MoreCarbon registry updates its high integrity standard, aligns with CORSIA and ICROA
A carbon registry has updated its high integrity carbon standard and aligned its programme with CORSIA and International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA), it announced on Friday.
Read MoreDATA DIVE: More and more airlines appear to be retiring carbon credits
An increasing number of the world’s largest airlines are retiring voluntary carbon credits, according to data from the Verra, Gold Standard, ACR, and Climate Action Reserve (CAR) registries.
Read MoreGoogle signs first corporate PPA to buy nuclear power from small modular reactors
Google has become the first company to sign a corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) to buy nuclear power from small modular reactors (SMRs), the company said on Monday.
Read MoreBRIEFING: ‘Huge uncertainty’ in US carbon markets if Trump re-elected, as integrity bodies plough on with guidelines
There is “huge uncertainty” around what would happen to US carbon markets regulations if the openly-climate sceptic former President Donald Trump is re-elected in November, according to the co-chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
Read MoreCFEL24: EU industry may never recover from two-year slump -analysts
There is a real chance that EU industry never recovers from its current output slump, in what could be a major drag on the European carbon price over the next decade, analysts told Carbon Forward Expo London 2024 last week.
Read MoreIntegrating carbon removal credits into EU ETS makes moral and business sense, says BP
There is both a strong moral case and business case for integrating carbon removal credits from around the world into the EU ETS, a senior member of BP’s carbon team told a conference on Monday.
Read MoreCFEL24: Credit surplus will not hold back VCM 2.0, analysts say
The credit surplus in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) should not hold back price development and liquidity as the market reforms, analysts at Carbon Forward Expo London said on Thursday, suggesting a two-speed market could develop in the future.
Read MoreDenmark publishes national biochar strategy as it looks to meet carbon negative target
Denmark has published a national biochar strategy that outlines how the government plans to use the carbon removal process to meet its climate neutral 2045 target, and 2050 carbon negative target.
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