ANALYSIS: Renewables offset projects flock to GCC despite uncertain rewards
Around 220 renewable energy projects are queueing for registration with offset standard Global Carbon Council (GCC) despite uncertainty over market appetite for the units, should they be successful.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Demand for nature credits to persist as far curve spreads widen
Nature-based carbon credit futures have largely withstood a wider voluntary carbon market (VCM) shakedown in recent months, with robust demand expectations and near-term economic woes blowing out spreads along the curve.
Read MoreANALYSIS: New Zealand agriculture fights to keep sector out of ETS
A New Zealand agricultural sector group has until the end of the month to submit an emissions pricing scheme proposal to the government, tailor made for the industry, in a bid to keep it out of the nation’s emissions trading scheme in 2025.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Mapping carbon project pathways for Paris Agreement era
Once thought to be at death’s door, the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) lingers in the Paris Agreement-era, although there is a deep well of complexity on how its credits may be issued and used – resulting in many project proponents jumping ship for clearer waters in the voluntary carbon market.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Hong Kong eyes central carbon market role, but the key to its success lies in Beijing
Hong Kong has set out plans to establish itself as the hub that will bring together the international carbon market and that of China, but the pathway to success is tricky and heavily reliant on decision-makers in Beijing.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Scientific support for carbon removals has its limits
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s pathways to maintaining a liveable planet rely on carbon removals, but the experts’ caution on how these technical and nature-based methods should be deployed suggest that governments are unlikely to give untrammelled backing.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Carbon accounting comes of age as net tightens over corporates
Scrutiny over corporate carbon accounting is ramping up fast as the UK is poised to become the world’s first nation to impose detailed mandatory climate risk disclosures, while investors pump millions into firms that help companies manage the reporting process in expectation of a global roll-out.
Read MoreANALYSIS: Labour shortage expected to exacerbate VCM supply bottleneck through 2022
Staff shortages among verifiers and registry bodies are clogging up the voluntary carbon market (VCM) project pipeline, with any potential easing of the situation likely to take more than a year and issuances taking twice as long as in previous years, stakeholders have told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreANALYSIS: A good vintage? The voluntary carbon market’s longevity problem
The voluntary carbon market’s (VCM) effectiveness as a force in climate action is being called into question, with more than half of credits retired in 2021 representing emissions cuts made more than five years earlier.
Read MoreANALYSIS: As higher VER prices become the new reality, voluntary players change tack
The surge in pricing for voluntary emissions reductions (VERs) over the past year has caused voluntary carbon market (VCM) participants to reassess their trading strategies, as buyers alter procurement methods and preferences while developers and intermediaries adjust to dwindling credit supply.
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