UK nature start-up to launch own biodiversity credit standard
A UK-based nature start-up launched this week with plans to carry out ecological restoration projects and develop its own voluntary biodiversity credit standard to drive private investment.
Read MoreChina ETS gets clout boost as State Council approves regulations
China’s State Council on Friday approved regulations for the national emissions trading scheme, adding bureaucratic clout to the scheme, which so far only has been formally backed at ministerial level.
Read MoreEU forest strategy could move biodiversity risk to more vulnerable countries, study warns
Even under a moderate implementation of the EU’s biodiversity strategy, tens of millions of cubic metres of roundwood production would be moved to countries with lower governance quality and higher risk of species extinction, a study has warned.
Read MoreCarbon market group to cooperate with VCMI on improving integrity, access for Indian companies
An Indian carbon market industry group on Thursday announced it will collaborate with the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI) to advance the South Asian nation’s participation in global offset trade and boost quality in the country’s emissions reductions sector.
Read MoreCercarbono puts indicator species methodology out for consultation
Colombia-based credit standard Cercarbono has released for public consultation a methodology that will allow project developers to earn Voluntary Biodiversity Credits (VBCs) for the protection of ecosystem indicator species.
Read MoreRegen Network weighs taking on board Terrasos biodiversity credits
Environmental trading platform Regen Network is lining up a vote among its community members to decide whether to start listing units generated by Colombia-based Terrasos as a first outright biodiversity credits on the platform, with others to follow.
Read MoreConsortium seeks GHG acreage in Australia for CCS
A group of companies said Thursday they have bid to explore several of the 10 areas made available for carbon capture and storage location exploration by the Australian government earlier this year in a bid to establish themselves in the emerging Asia-Pacific CCS value chain.
Read MoreAfrican projects earn accelerator status, eye biodiversity credits
The first African biodiversity accelerator has picked two initial winners, both forestry projects in the process of exploring options in the biodiversity credit market.
Read MoreCOP28: US developer, African Union agency eye huge landscape restoration projects
A US project developer and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) have penned partnerships with two African countries that call for millions of hectares of land to be restored, with as much as 3 billion tonnes of CO2 to be sequestered over the next half century.
Read MoreCOP28: Nations to review debt interplay with nature, climate
Colombia, Kenya, and France on Monday said they will launch an expert review of the relationship between, debt, nature loss, and climate change in a bid to better position nations to solve the three major crises.
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