FEATURE: Cloud-piercing US-India radar satellite set to sharpen forest carbon monitoring
The US and Indian space agencies have begun releasing data from a “next-generation” Earth observation satellite launched last year, which scientists said will be a step-change in how the world tracks forests, biomass, and land-use change, with implications on measurement and verification for carbon markets.
Read MoreFEATURE: The challenges of biodiversity crediting in OECMs
Additionality, ambiguity, and conservation timeframes could be potential challenges of generating biodiversity credits from areas of land or sea recognised as Other Effective land-based Conservation Measures (OECMs), Carbon Pulse heard.
Read MoreFEATURE: How US mineral ambitions in Greenland could compound climate, nature risks
Renewed US strategic attention to Greenland has raised concerns among experts that nature risks from activities like mining would compound the impacts of climate change, posing a systemic threat to a unique natural environment.
Read MoreFEATURE: CDR industry braces for year ahead as investors prepare to weather the storm
As carbon removal (CDR) companies approach the end of their financial runways, investors expect a challenging year ahead for the industry, though some see strategies that could carry the sector through.
Read MoreFEATURE: EU-Mercosur deal is signed off, with questions over its impact on nature
After 25 years of negotiations, the EU and Mercosur signed a contentious deal to create one of the world’s largest free trade zones on Saturday in Asuncion, Paraguay, with its impacts on nature still being evaluated.
Read MoreFEATURE: Corporate action on nature targets at “beginning of snowball” as boards engage
Corporate attention to nature is accelerating, with companies proving that it is possible to set credible targets as the topic enters the boardroom, executives told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreFEATURE: Sales quietly halted for US forest carbon project after reassessment, as proponents and registry defend ecological value
Carbon credit sales from a controversial Pennsylvania-based improved forest management (IFM) project were quietly halted following a reassessment of its baseline assumptions, project backers have confirmed to Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreFEATURE: Brazil redraws climate plan to split deforestation from agribusiness emissions
Brazil has overcome a political and technical impasse with the agribusiness sector by redrawing the way carbon emissions are allocated between agricultural production and land-use change under its national climate plan.
Read MoreFEATURE: Colombia’s formalisation of eight new Indigenous jurisdictions steers the future for J-REDD+, nature-based markets
More than 30 years after being mandated by the Constitution, Colombia’s president on Wednesday signed the decrees recognising the country’s first eight Indigenous Territorial Entities (ETIs), marking the beginning of a process to establish governance systems and financing mechanisms in new jurisdictions covering millions of hectares of Amazon rainforest.
Read MoreFEATURE: Agtech eyes carbon markets to spur solutions for livestock emissions
Responsible for an estimated 14.5% of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, projects tackling livestock emissions have historically covered a very small part of the carbon market – but developers are preparing to go mainstream, with methodologies under Verra in development and poised for submission next year.
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