Energy emissions will peak in 2024, but Paris goals still out of reach -report

Published 13:51 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 13:51 on October 9, 2024  / /  Asia Pacific, China, EMEA, International

Global energy-related emissions will likely peak in 2024 and start a sustained decline for the first time since the industrial revolution – yet global warming will remain on track to shoot past 2C, according to a report on Wednesday.

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Euro Markets: EUAs jump 4% as funds extend net short to highest since March

Published 12:54 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 17:07 on October 9, 2024  / /  EMEA, EU ETS, UK ETS

European carbon allowances rebounded on Wednesday as they snapped three consecutive loss-making sessions, eyeing key technical levels to the upside even as TTF gas prices continued to correct lower, while investment funds raised their net short position to the highest level since March.

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UK govt agency finds most ecosystems at higher risk  

Published 12:14 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:14 on October 9, 2024  / /  Biodiversity, EMEA

Almost all the UK’s ecosystem assets are at high or medium-high risk, requiring public and private investment, the government’s nature department said in a report published on Wednesday.

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INTERVIEW: The key ingredients for selling cookstove credits at $35/t

Published 12:00 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:17 on October 9, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, Voluntary

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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Climate Impact Partners, Deloitte launch programme to fund UK seagrass restoration

Published 11:06 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:06 on October 9, 2024  / /  Biodiversity, EMEA, Nature-based, Voluntary

Voluntary carbon market experts Climate Impact Partners and Deloitte launched on Wednesday a programme to unlock financing towards seagrass recovery in the UK, as part of a wider seagrass carbon code currently under development in the country.

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Renewables ramp up beyond policy plans but won’t hit COP28 target, IEA says

Published 10:57 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 10:57 on October 9, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA, International

Renewable energy growth will be swift and large but still fall short of the commitment made at COP28 to triple penetration by the end of the decade even as it outpaces nations’ current ambitions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Wednesday in a renewables report.

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CFEL24: Airlines see CORSIA credit supply ‘tipping point’ approaching

Published 00:08 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 12:11 on October 10, 2024  / /  Aviation/CORSIA, EMEA, EU ETS, International

The current lack of supply in carbon credits approved under the UN’s CORSIA carbon offsetting scheme could be coming to an end in November when new voluntary carbon standards are expected to be approved under the scheme by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), industry officials say.

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Methane standards-setter announces certification of Europe’s largest LNG terminal

Published 00:01 on October 9, 2024  /  Last updated at 18:01 on October 8, 2024  / /  Americas, EMEA, US, Voluntary

A Colorado-based methane standards-setter has certified Europe’s largest LNG terminal, it announced on Wednesday during the BloombergNEF London Summit.

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CORRECTION – BRIEFING: Chile welcomes nearly a dozen projects into Article 6 pipeline

Published 23:06 on October 8, 2024  /  Last updated at 18:22 on October 10, 2024  / /  Americas, EMEA, International, Paris Article 6, South & Central, Switzerland

Chile has nearly a dozen Article 6.2 projects in various stages of development and is working to develop an official taxonomy of priority project types, Carbon Pulse heard at the Chile Carbon Forum in Santiago on Tuesday.

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CFEL24: Most VCM participants now seek compliance-eligible projects -ratings agency

Published 19:02 on October 8, 2024  /  Last updated at 19:02 on October 8, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, Aviation/CORSIA, EMEA, International, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

Most voluntary carbon market (VCM) investors are now only looking at projects expected to fit within regulated regimes, like CORSIA or Article 6, according to the head of a carbon project ratings agency.

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