FEATURE: Clean cooking sector on tenterhooks after alleged fraud slips past VCM quality checks
Inconsistencies in the verification of clean cookstove initiatives developed by C-Quest Capital, which saw its former executives charged with fraud earlier this month by US federal prosecutors, have sent shockwaves across the voluntary carbon market (VCM) ahead of crucial integrity decisions concerning this project type.
Read MoreUK to create long-term blueprint for clean energy transition out to 2050
The UK will announce a blueprint for how it will manage the clean energy transition in the country out to 2050 before the end of the year.
Read MoreVCM Report: Buyers lack appetite after cookstove scandal, hopes pinned on Baku
A rush of retirements, including from two large French companies, failed to lift the market in the wake of fraud allegations directed at C-Quest Capital last week, after Verra said the cookstove project developer was issued millions of bogus carbon credits, keeping general buying interest at bay.
Read MoreNature-based carbon platform adds forest screening, monitoring function
A nature-based platform has teamed up with a tech firm to offer combined screening and monitoring of forest carbon projects.
Read MoreUK energy-from-waste incinerators almost as emissions-intensive as coal-fired power, finds analysis
Burning household rubbish in giant incinerators is now the dirtiest way the UK generates electricity after the closure of the last coal-fired power plant in the country, analysis published Tuesday has found.
Read MoreVerra launches additionality tools to align with ICVCM CCP requirements
Verra has released two new tools to assess the additionality of project activities, replacing and updating CDM versions, in a move that will further align the standard body with the ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principle stamp of high integrity approval.
Read MoreVCM Report: Huge REDD trade lifts spirits, prices tick higher ahead of COP29
A huge REDD trade at a very low value bolstered volumes in the voluntary carbon market last week, and prices in general ticked higher as optimism picked up ahead of the climate talks in Baku next month.
Read MoreSmall number of large deals keeps carbon removal market ticking higher in Q3
A handful of big purchases, mainly by Microsoft and Equinor, kept the needle moving upwards in the carbon removal (CDR) market in the third quarter, as overall volumes remained small and prices high.
Read MoreGold Standard seeks carbon project developers to pilot new digital MRV tool
Gold Standard is seeking carbon project developers to test run its new digital measurement, reporting, and verification (dMRV) tool that will automate data collection and help streamline emissions reporting.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: The key ingredients for selling cookstove credits at $35/t
Realism, ratings, and relationships are the key ingredients to attract investment in the voluntary carbon market, the buyer of cookstove credits at $35 per tonne told Carbon Pulse this week.
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