Sustainable aviation too slow to take off, finds report

Published 15:30 on December 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 15:30 on December 3, 2024  / /  Americas, Aviation/CORSIA, EMEA, International

A mere 12% of airlines around the world are making “noteworthy efforts” to switch from kerosene to truly sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs), while the others are either buying too little or the wrong kind of alternative, according to an NGO ranking published on Tuesday.

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Fragmentation of standards a fact of life in new carbon market landscape, say experts

Published 10:20 on December 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:20 on December 3, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, International, Kyoto Mechanisms, Nature-based, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

Fragmentation in international carbon markets is now a “reality”, and it is unlikely that there will be a single global standard for credits as countries continue to take different approaches in terms of project development, according to panelists speaking at a conference on Tuesday.

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WCI, Washington release expected 2025 auction dates and reserve prices

Published 02:12 on December 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 16:03 on December 3, 2024  / /  Americas, Canada, US

The California-Quebec joint carbon market and Washington’s cap-and-invest programme announced auction dates and reserve prices for 2025 on Monday, along with next year’s sale volumes.

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CFTC: Traders bulk holdings in V25s across WCI, RGGI carbon markets

Published 02:07 on December 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 02:07 on December 3, 2024  / and /  Americas, Canada, US

Both emitters and financial players continued to move their holdings in California Carbon Allowances (CCAs) and RGGI Allowances (RGAs) into 2025 at the expense of 2024, delayed data from the US Thanksgiving holiday published Monday by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed.

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BRIEFING: US data centres, AI growth add pressure for transmission permitting reform -panellists

Published 00:42 on December 3, 2024  /  Last updated at 00:42 on December 3, 2024  / /  Americas, US, Voluntary

As data centres and artificial intelligence drives electricity demand across the US, permitting wait times for transmission lines will need to be dramatically sped up in a number of ways, panellists said Monday, from limiting lawsuits against transmission projects to centralizing permitting authority in the federal government.

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Canada proposes CFR credit generation updates

Published 23:45 on December 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 23:45 on December 2, 2024  / /  Americas, Canada, RINs & LCFS

Canada proposed changes to carbon intensity (CI) calculations of certain fuels eligible for credit generation under the Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) on Friday.

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European country donates up to $21 mln to Brazil’s Amazon Fund

Published 23:34 on December 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 23:34 on December 2, 2024  / /  Americas, EMEA, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Brazil’s national development bank announced Friday that a European nation has donated up to $21.1 million to the Amazon Fund, aiming to help combat deforestation and promote sustainable development.

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INTERVIEW: US non-profit to launch Ethiopian methane carbon credit project

Published 20:36 on December 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 20:36 on December 2, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, EMEA, US, Voluntary

A North Carolina-based research non-profit is set to launch a carbon credit project in Ethiopia with a US development agency, aiming to expand its approach for reducing enteric methane emissions from small farmers’ livestock in the developing world, representatives of the organisation told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of COP29.

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VCM Report: Verra carbon credit retirements breach 7 mln as market shows signs of life

Published 16:53 on December 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 16:53 on December 2, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, Aviation/CORSIA, EMEA, International, Nature-based, Voluntary

Retirements in the Verra voluntary carbon registry surged to just over 7 million last week, as the market started to show some life after having failed to ignite after the COP climate talks last month.

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IFC launches $450-mln green bond to fund biodiversity

Published 16:29 on December 2, 2024  /  Last updated at 02:23 on December 3, 2024  /  Americas, Asia Pacific, Australia, Biodiversity, South & Central

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has issued a A$700-million ($451 mln) so-called green kangaroo bond in Australia to help close the biodiversity funding gap in emerging markets, it announced Monday.

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