INTERVIEW: New startup bets on preserving DAC industrial know-how as sector consolidates
A new startup is working to preserve stranded direct air capture (DAC) patents, data, and engineering know-how before funding pressures and sector consolidation cause useful technology to be permanently lost, its CEO told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: French real estate pioneer shapes EU push to certify CO2 stored in buildings
France’s decade-old BBCA low carbon building label has provided the “laboratory” and much of the methodology now underpinning Europe’s push to create a single low carbon label and certification scheme for biogenic CO2 stored in buildings, its president Stanislas Pottier told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: French pilot offers credits spanning biodiversity, carbon, water, and soil
A French project developer is offering voluntary credits across biodiversity, carbon, water, and soil from regenerative agriculture and forestry initiatives, an executive told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreLCAW26: INTERVIEW – Japanese govt should look beyond domestic carbon market to international credits, investor group says
The Japanese government is placing too great a priority on its domestic carbon market, the GX-ETS, and should expand focus to engage with international credits, a Tokyo-based public-private partnership said at London Climate Action Week (LCAW).
Read MoreINTERVIEW: New standard body EE looks to revive REDD market with fresh approach
Few markets have faced as severe a reputational battering as the REDD+ avoided deforestation sector in the last couple of years, but new standard body Equitable Earth (EE) plans to restore faith in saving tropical forestry with a fresh approach that is already set to protect an area the size of Portugal, the chief executive told Carbon Pulse this week.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Adding carbon removals to UK ETS will guarantee a market – but not demand
The UK’s planned route for integrating greenhouse gas removals (GGRs) into its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would give project developers access to the compliance market – but it would not guarantee the buyers, a former UK government official told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: India’s biochar boom risks oversupply within four years, developer warns
India’s fast-growing biochar industry could become overcrowded within three to four years as a multitude of developers, some of which are producing low-quality biochar, deploy projects across the country, with consolidation already beginning among smaller operators, a developer told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: US super pollutant credits developer targets Global South food supply chain expansion
A US-based developer of super pollutant credits is targeting rapid expansion into Central and South America as food supply chains increasingly shift into the region, according to its CEO.
Read MoreCLARIFICATION – INTERVIEW: Engineering advisory determines water-based CCS startup to be competitive with traditional amine-based methods
A US carbon capture and storage (CCS) startup announced on Thursday positive analysis from a large, independent engineering consultancy about the price competitiveness of its water-based technology, the founder told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Indonesia needs ‘period of calm’, REDD+ project developer says
The CEO of a legacy REDD+ project in Indonesia has said overseas buyers and investors are looking for stability in the country’s carbon regulatory landscape to instil confidence that credits will resume and remain flowing.
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