FEATURE: 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.
Read MoreFEATURE: Three years in, Just Energy Transition Partnerships face strained finance, uneven delivery
Once promoted as a breakthrough for mobilising large-scale climate finance in coal-dependent economies, the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) schemes are now under scrutiny amid shifting donor politics, existing financing gaps, and evidence that implementation is falling behind the pace required to keep national transition plans on track.
Read MoreFEATURE: UN climate talks are primed for change – but how remains open to negotiation
If there’s one overarching takeaway from Brazil’s COP30 climate summit, it’s that it was a particularly strange and messy one, reflecting the challenges of negotiating real, immediate efforts to fulfil the Paris Agreement – and the pressing need to change how the annual talks are run.Â
Read MoreFEATURE: After COP30 setback, EU eyes reform of global climate talks
The European Commission has acknowledged that COP30 fell short of expectations, particularly on the phaseout of fossil fuels, but still, the EU executive said no deal would have been worse for international climate diplomacy, adding that the bloc will now work to “improve the design” of future climate summits.
Read MoreFEATURE: Delay to EU anti-deforestation law will cause widespread environmental destruction, experts say
Failing to kickstart the EU’s anti-deforestation law this year could cause millions of tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, biodiverse habitat destruction, and water cycle disruption, experts told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreFEATURE: Countries continue to seek balance between rush for carbon finance and Article 6 capacity building
Several countries are looking to issue Letters of Authorisation (LoAs) that would allow projects to supply carbon credits to the international aviation offsetting scheme CORSIA, but many say they prefer to have their Article 6 infrastructure fully operational before moving ahead.
Read MoreCOP30: FEATURE – In Belem, action from summit sidelines moved into centre-stage
COP30 was a tale of two climate summits: on the one side, divisive negotiations over deals that largely reaffirmed existing climate goals; but on the other, a stronger-than-ever show of how action is already spreading faster and farther.
Read MoreFEATURE: Article 6.2 clashes could weigh heavily on UN REDD+ programmes
Discussions on international carbon trading at COP30 exposed tensions about the function of a technical review process, key for transparency in new Paris Agreement markets, which may have significant implications for those seeking to sell reductions from Article 5.2 REDD+ programmes via Article 6.
Read MoreFEATURE: Asphalt integration shows promising pathway to grow biochar demand
A UK-based biochar developer teased some positive results from testing the addition of biochar to asphalt at COP30, opening up a dialogue on more industrial end-uses for the carbon removal (CDR) product.
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