Ghana approaches J-REDD+ issuance
Ghana is close to issuing forest carbon credits under its large-scale forest conservation programme, a minister announced in London this week.
Read MoreGlobal seagrass sediment stores 650 mln tCO2, according to satellite map
An American research team has found that roughly 650 million tonnes of carbon were stored in the top layers of seagrass sediment between 2019-20 as part of the construction of a global blue carbon map.
Read MoreResearchers say nature-based insurance could unlock billions
Greater use of nature-based insurance could help reduce climate risks, mobilise private adaptation finance, support biodiversity conservation, and help curb rising insurance costs, researchers said in a paper published this week.
Read MoreMultilateral bank debuts in Swiss market with CHF 100 mln blue bond
The private-sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank, IDB Invest, has priced its inaugural CHF 100 million ($123 mln) 10-year blue bond to finance marine ecosystem conservation in Latin America and the Caribbean, among other activities.
Read MoreLCAW26 roundup: Hope floats for climate action while London drips in heat
Scorching heat dominated this year’s London Climate Action Week – even amid talk of new challenges and ideas, ranging from the hopes and fears posed by AI, to the need and opportunity to quickly stem ultra-potent superpollutants.
Read MoreNature branded “strategic infrastructure” as EU countries back credits push
EU environment ministers meeting on Thursday said protecting and restoring nature is now a competitiveness issue as much as an environmental one, with several countries branding nature-based solutions “strategic infrastructure” and backing new market tools such as nature credits.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: French real estate pioneer shapes EU push to certify CO2 stored in buildings
France’s decade-old BBCA low carbon building label has provided the “laboratory” and much of the methodology now underpinning Europe’s push to create a single low carbon label and certification scheme for biogenic CO2 stored in buildings, its president Stanislas Pottier told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
Read MoreDutch NbS developer launches Congo cassava pilot after feasibility study
A nature-based (NbS) project developer in the Netherlands has completed a feasibility study for a proposed land restoration initiative in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it said Friday.
Read MoreJurisdictional REDD+ standard updates, offers lifeline for World Bank forest programme participants
The Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) has released version 3.0 of its jurisdictional REDD+ standard, adding a pathway for World Bank forest carbon programme participants to transition into the standard, it announced Thursday.
Read MoreAfrican tropical forests remove enough carbon to offset most land-use emissions, study finds
Tropical moist forests across 18 African countries removed enough carbon to offset most land-use emissions between 2015 and 2019, though researchers said uncertainty means the region’s overall carbon balance remains unresolved.
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