INTERVIEW: Waste-based materials firm issues first plastic avoidance carbon credits

Published 00:00 on April 28, 2026 / Last updated at 17:15 on April 27, 2026 / / EMEA (Europe, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), Nature-based Carbon (Other NbS), Net Zero Transition (Industrial Decarbonisation), Voluntary (VCM Developments)

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A waste-to-materials developer has Tuesday issued carbon credits under a new methodology quantifying emissions avoided from replacing fossil-based plastics, an executive at the firm told Carbon Pulse.

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INTERVIEW: Date palm carbon project startup deepens Egypt’s shallow pool of developers

Published 17:02 on April 27, 2026 / Last updated at 17:02 on April 27, 2026 / / EMEA (Africa, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Voluntary (VCM Developments, VCM Governance)

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A startup focused on date palm land management and afforestation is aiming to enter the small world of Egyptian carbon project developers, adding new programmes; independent validation, verification, certification, and pricing; and majority revenue shares for farmers.

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INTERVIEW: Soil restoration could unlock overlooked climate cooling pathway

Published 16:05 on April 23, 2026 / Last updated at 16:05 on April 23, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), Nature & Biodiversity (Corporate, Policy), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry, Other NbS)

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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.

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INTERVIEW: Ecuador ramping up efforts for carbon markets to sprout, piloting projects

Published 15:53 on April 23, 2026 / Last updated at 15:53 on April 23, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean), Insights (Interviews), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Voluntary (VCM Developments, VCM Governance)

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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.

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INTERVIEW: Volatile carbon prices drive interest in CO2 utilisation

Published 11:45 on April 23, 2026 / Last updated at 16:22 on May 22, 2026 / / CO2 Management (CCUS), EMEA (Europe), Insights (Interviews), Net Zero Transition (Industrial Decarbonisation)

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Near-term uncertainty about robust carbon pricing is strengthening the business case to capture CO2 for re-use in applications like sustainable aviation fuel and microbial oils to displace fossil-based feedstocks, said a stakeholder in an EU-funded project for a circular CO2 economy.

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INTERVIEW: Turkish COP champion hopes to connect carbon markets, emission cuts with daily lives

Published 11:39 on April 22, 2026 / Last updated at 11:39 on April 22, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), International (Paris Article 6/PACM, UN Climate Talks)

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Turkiye’s COP31 high-level champion is hoping to help translate the carbon market “architecture” established in recent years into “real-world delivery”, primarily through harmonisation, during this year’s UN climate summit. 

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INTERVIEW: Investment treaty expansion to offer carbon investors greater legal protection, lawyer says

Published 03:53 on April 22, 2026 / Last updated at 03:53 on April 22, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), International (Paris Article 6/PACM), Net Zero Transition (Litigation), Voluntary (VCM Governance)

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Investors will enjoy a new avenue for legal recourse against host countries’ interventions into carbon credit projects as certain business-oriented states pursue expansions in their international investment treaties, a Singapore-based lawyer told Carbon Pulse.

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INTERVIEW: Angola moves to publish carbon market draft law in 2026, advocacy group says

Published 12:23 on April 21, 2026 / Last updated at 12:23 on April 21, 2026 / / EMEA (Africa, Compliance Markets & Taxes), Insights (Interviews), International (Paris Article 6/PACM), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry)

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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.

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INTERVIEW: How data centres can help to squeeze the expense of direct air capture

Published 10:06 on April 21, 2026 / Last updated at 10:06 on April 21, 2026 / / Americas (US & Canada), CO2 Management (CCUS, Engineered Removals), EMEA (Europe), Insights (Interviews), Voluntary (VCM Developments)

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A developer of solid-state modules says it can reduce the cost of direct air capture (DAC) to $150 per tonne of CO2 by making use of existing airflows and waste heat at data centres.

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INTERVIEW: Uncertainty over Microsoft CDR purchases unlikely to derail nature-based carbon removal market

Published 11:32 on April 20, 2026 / Last updated at 11:32 on April 20, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Insights (Interviews), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry, Other NbS), Voluntary (VCM Developments)

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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.

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