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: South Korea’s emissions market poised for recovery, but uncertainty lingers over stabilisation mechanism
South Korea’s emissions market is expected to see price recovery in the coming years as regulations become more stringent, but the sentiment still hinges on how a proposed stabilisation mechanism will be implemented, experts told Carbon Pulse.
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: Virginia has multiple options for RGGI return, could shape market dynamics
The incoming administration of Virginia Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) faces multiple pathways to rejoin RGGI, with the timing and mechanism carrying implications for allowance distribution, prices, and the broader political balance between decarbonisation and consumer affordability concerns, experts told Carbon Pulse.
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: Brussels under pressure to put EU CBAM revenues into helping developing countries decarbonise
The EU wants to use some of its revenues from its border carbon fee to help its industrial exports compete internationally, but members of the European Parliament and climate experts argue at least a part should be funnelled into helping developing countries cut their emissions.
Read MoreFEATURE: Charting path to C$130/t floor for Alberta TIER precarious
It might take a “miracle” for Canada and Alberta to drum up a deal that pushes the oil-producing province’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) carbon credit price to C$130 ($94), analysts warn.
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.
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