PCF26: INTERVIEW – Latin American cookstoves developer plans Article 6 expansion
A clean cooking project developer operating in multiple Latin American countries has already obtained one Article 6 Letter of Authorisation (LoA) and is hoping to gain more, while keeping up with market trends toward high integrity, representatives told Carbon Pulse in Peru.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Airline urges Asia to scale up CORSIA supply to keep climate finance in region
A major airline wants more Asian countries to authorise carbon credits for use under the aviation sector’s CORSIA scheme, saying the region risks losing out on billions of dollars in climate finance to other markets.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Biodiversity credits are closest ecosystem service to commercial viability
Biodiversity credits are the ecosystem services market closest to becoming commercially viable as a funding source in their own right, but for now most nature value is still being priced indirectly, the head of a nature-based solutions financier has said.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Free EU ETS allowances could fund industrial decarbonisation, says ex-official
The EU should consider tying the distribution of free allowances in the bloc’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) to industrial decarbonisation investment in Europe, according to the former top climate official at the European Commission.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Asia’s emerging compliance markets should focus less on perfect design, more on getting started
Emerging emissions trading systems (ETSs) in Asia should not be judged too harshly if they struggle with low prices, weak liquidity, or technical glitches in their early years, according to an expert, who argued that even the world’s most established carbon markets evolved through repeated policy mistakes and reforms.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Myanmar eyes carbon tax, looks to submit new NDC by year-end
Myanmar is designing its first carbon tax, focusing on the energy, agriculture, and steel sectors, and is looking to submit its updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) by year-end, a Yangon-based VCM platform told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: CORSIA carbon credit supply and demand must grow ‘in lock step’ to scale market
The UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme is slowly growing, but has the potential to take off quickly if supply and demand fall into lockstep, the founder of a carbon markets analysis company told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Clarity on role of carbon market for Australia’s long-term goals needed, says industry body CEO
Upcoming reviews of Australia’s Safeguard Mechanism and the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme need to ensure that their role in achieving the country’s long-term climate goals is clear, said the CEO of the Carbon Market Institute (CMI).
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Pakistan province eyes carbon market expansion, sub-national ETS by 2027
Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, is preparing an extensive push into carbon markets, with officials targeting the launch of a sub-national emissions trading system (ETS) by mid-2027 while developing a pipeline of Article 6 and voluntary carbon market projects spanning forestry, transport, waste, energy, and clean water.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: ICVCM chief sees short-term pain, long-term gain from shift to CCP-aligned methodologies
Project developers in developing countries face short-term economic strain as carbon credit methodologies are brought into line with the Core Carbon Principles (CCP), but the move is already yielding higher prices and renewed buyer confidence, said Amy Merrill, CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
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