INTERVIEW: Govts urged to use health budgets for urban nature-based solutions amid deadly European heatwave
Governments should allocate part of their health budgets to greening urban areas, as scaling up nature-based solutions is one of the most effective ways to tackle rising temperatures in European cities, an expert told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: UN biodiversity chief sets out finance priorities as progress ‘not up to scratch’
Global progress on mobilising nature finance is falling short of 2030 goals, highlighting the need to boost domestic resources as donor budgets decline and explore innovative financing instruments such as biodiversity credits, the UN biodiversity chief 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 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: 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.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Brazil project developer aims to set benchmark for REDD+
A project developer operating in Brazil hopes that a new rating will help its Amazon project set a benchmark to restore the credibility of REDD+, a representative told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Ecoregions seen as potential bridge to scale nature markets beyond local offsets
Ecoregions could provide the framework needed to allow biodiversity compensation across countries, helping nature markets mobilise financing at scale while maintaining a degree of ecological equivalence between impacts and conservation outcomes, an expert told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Contracted durability mechanisms could shore up nature-based removals under new SBTi corporate climate standard
A carbon project developer has pitched contracted durability mechanisms as a way to manage reversal risk, suggesting these buffer pool alternatives could equalise nature- and tech-based removal credits under the newly-introduced requirements of the Science-based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) latest Corporate Net-Zero Standard.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: 330 hectares of European biodiversity credit projects secure private funding
Around 330 hectares of voluntary biodiversity credit pilots in Europe have secured corporate financing to support their work towards certification, Carbon Pulse has learned.
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