South Korea to mandate SAF use for all international flights starting 2027

Published 13:16 on August 30, 2024  /  Last updated at 13:16 on August 30, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Aviation/CORSIA, International, South Korea, Voluntary

South Korea is seeking to impose a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) blending mandate on all international flights departing the country, come 2027, the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy (MOTIE) announced Friday.

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Japanese firm partners with fisheries cooperative to generate blue carbon credits through seaweed restoration

Published 09:12 on August 30, 2024  /  Last updated at 09:12 on August 30, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Japan, Nature-based, Voluntary

A Tokyo-based asset management firm has collaborated with a fisheries cooperative to generate blue carbon credits through the restoration of seaweed beds in the Japanese city of Kamakura, the firm announced this week.

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Blockchain firm teams up with US-based registration platform to offer tokenised carbon credits

Published 08:34 on August 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 08:34 on August 29, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, South & Central, Voluntary

A US-based blockchain company has partnered with a registration platform to list tokenised credits on a digital library with the aim of bringing about a more efficient and transparent way to trade assets, the company announced.

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Major Asian nations must abandon LNG to decarbonise shipping sector -report

Published 10:40 on August 28, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:40 on August 28, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, China, International, Japan, Other APAC, Shipping, South Korea, Voluntary

Countries including China, Japan, and South Korea must abandon the use of liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a bridge fuel in order to fully decarbonise their shipping sector, a report released Wednesday said.

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Sea level rise imperils global coastlines, mostly Pacific islands -UN report

Published 12:41 on August 27, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:41 on August 27, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, Climate Talks, EMEA, International, Other APAC

An unprecedented increase in global sea levels poses a major threat to countries with large coastal populations and will significantly impact the livelihoods of those living in the Pacific islands, according to a UN technical brief released this week.

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Non-profit seeks to trade int’l carbon credits from planting trees in Bhutan

Published 11:41 on August 26, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:41 on August 26, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Nature-based, Other APAC, Voluntary

A non-profit in Bhutan is exploring the opportunity of generating and trading international carbon credits from tree-planting projects in the Himalayan Kingdom, according to local media.

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India open to bring coal into compliance scheme in time

Published 03:08 on August 23, 2024  /  Last updated at 03:08 on August 23, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, Other APAC, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

India has left coal-fired power generation out of its compliance carbon market from the outset, but might add the big-emitting sector to the scheme later, a government official said Thursday.

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Verra opens public consultation on additionality tools to align with CCP voluntary carbon label

Published 07:40 on August 22, 2024  /  Last updated at 07:40 on August 22, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, International, Voluntary

Voluntary carbon standard Verra has launched a public consultation for two of its tools in order to assess the additionality of project activities, with an aim to align them with the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).

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Malawi authorises ITMOs from cookstove carbon project

Published 12:16 on August 21, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:16 on August 21, 2024  / /  Africa, Asia Pacific, EMEA, International, Other APAC, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

Malawi’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Climate Change (MNRCC) has provided a Letter of Authorisation (LoA) that permit up to 1.4 million carbon credits to be issued to a cookstoves project in the country and then be correspondingly adjusted under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement.

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Oil majors team up with UK-based carbon capture developer for CCS project in Malaysia

Published 13:19 on August 20, 2024  /  Last updated at 13:19 on August 20, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, EMEA, Other APAC, Voluntary

Two oil majors have teamed up with a UK-headquartered firm on the construction of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities in Malaysia, the companies announced Tuesday.

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