INTERVIEW: Soil restoration could unlock overlooked climate cooling pathway
Restoring degraded soils could help rebuild natural water cycles that play a major role in regulating the planet’s temperature, according to experts highlighting the potential of nature-based solutions (NbS) beyond emissions cuts and carbon sequestration.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Ecuador ramping up efforts for carbon markets to sprout, piloting projects
Ecuador’s Ministry of Environment and Energy is allowing carbon projects and guiding proponents on how to handle the country’s current legal conditions, Carbon Pulse heard from a well-placed environmental consultant.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Social, cultural ecosystem value metrics would improve nature markets
Biodiversity credit markets should assess and price in nature’s importance to people, according to an academic who has made a methodology to measure the cultural and social value of ecosystems.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: OECMs to be integrated into UN protected areas framework after COP17
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) could further integrate Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) into its framework at COP17, as governments show growing interest in using them to meet biodiversity targets, WWF told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Angola moves to publish carbon market draft law in 2026, advocacy group says
Angola’s government is working on legislation to establish a national emissions trading system (ETS) and to structure its participation in international carbon markets, a policy advocate engaged in the process told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: German nature credit proposal could reshape biodiversity compliance market
A draft German ministry proposal to introduce voluntary nature credits could significantly impact its mandatory biodiversity compensation market, according to a stakeholder.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Uncertainty over Microsoft CDR purchases unlikely to derail nature-based carbon removal market
The market for nature-based carbon removals will withstand Microsoft’s possible pause in carbon removal (CDR) activity, with investor appetite and a broader base of corporate buyers looking to support the sector, according to an expert.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Due diligence rules pose legal risk to carbon market actors in Colombia
A global shift toward cross-border due diligence rules in environmental value chains has not missed Colombia or its carbon market, creating legal vulnerabilities for financial institutions and potentially carbon credit buyers, according to a Colombian environmental attorney.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Colombian govt shelves Article 6 regulation proposal, project pipeline advances
Although the Colombian government has deprioritised enacting an Article 6 regulation amid the end of the presidential term in August, its main implementation technical partner is developing a project pipeline, preparing for its eventual one-go rollout.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Sri Lanka’s carbon market ‘a world of opportunity’ held back by state inertia, says local developer
Sri Lanka has no meaningful carbon market today, but has the potential to unlock millions of tonnes of compliance-grade credits if bureaucratic delays and financing gaps are resolved, according to a Colombo-based developer.
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