FEATURE: Market welcomes GHG Protocol’s new land use standard, but forestry gap and implementation questions raise concerns
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s long-awaited Land Sector and Removals Standard (LSRS) has been broadly welcomed as a major step forward for corporate carbon accounting of agriculture- and land-related emissions, though questions remain over implementation details, traceability rules, and the exclusion of forest carbon.
Read MoreFEATURE: UK grid revamp a careful balancing act between costs and disruption
The UK plans to spend tens of billions of pounds revamping its electricity network, but costs and disruption must be carefully managed if the country is to achieve its 2030 clean power goal, experts told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreFEATURE: 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 fall of Koko is a reminder that sovereign carbon credit approvals are never a sure thing
For many people working across global carbon markets, the surprising collapse of clean energy company and cookstove developer Koko Networks shows that, fundamentally, you can’t count on government authorisation for the international sale of carbon credits until the approval has been fully stamped through.
Read MoreFEATURE: Backsliding on Danish CCS tender due to storage risks and penalties, say stakeholders
Lack of available storage and penalty risk for failing to deliver by 2030 are the main obstacles to Denmark’s €4-billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) subsidy scheme, stakeholders told Carbon Pulse.
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: UK kicks into delivery mode on 2030 clean power goal
The UK must accelerate clean energy delivery this year to have a chance of meeting its 2030 clean power goal, while taking steps to reintegrate with the EU’s power market, experts say.
Read MoreFEATURE: US cedes capital stewardship, energy diplomacy to other nations in withdrawal from UNFCCC
The US withdrawal from the UNFCCC means it no longer has a say in how the billions of dollars it has contributed to the international climate treaty will be spent, as the world continues to negotiate efforts to stem emissions in the country’s absence, experts 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.
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