FEATURE: 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: 2026 a critical year for the ACCU market, as all eyes are on the Safeguard Mechanism review
The coming year will see a plethora of sentiment-shifting events and milestones in Australia’s carbon market; however, experts have pointed to the mid-year review of the Safeguard Mechanism as the flagship agenda item that will shape the scheme in the years to come.
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: 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.
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.
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