DATA DIVE: Big spenders – Where does the EU channel its ETS revenues?
The EU ETS has helped bring down emissions from power and industry by 47% since 2005, and the money raised each year through the auctioning of carbon permits brings in a substantial amount of income to the bloc, with billions channeled towards clean energy projects, data shows.
Read MoreDATA DIVE: Shell’s dominance of the voluntary carbon market drives retirements surge
Anglo-Dutch oil major Shell has dominated the voluntary carbon market (VCM) over the past six months, retiring 14% – or one seventh – of all credits retired between Nov. 2023 and April 2024, Carbon Pulse analysis has shown.
Read MoreDATA DIVE: Booming energy company activity lifts voluntary carbon credit retirements in 2024
Credit retirements across the four main registries in the voluntary carbon market are on track for a record year, lifted by particularly buoyant activity among energy companies.
Read MoreDATA DIVE: Built on solid rock – How Kenya emerged as a global leader for carbon market investment
This is the first story in Carbon Pulse’s newly-launched data journalism offering. Data Dive delves deeper into larger data sets to analyse the figures, identify the trends, and employ helpful visualisations that together deliver compelling and insightful news articles for our subscribers.
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