FEATURE: Canadian CDR stands on compliance precipice, needs support to kick voluntary ‘training wheels’
Momentum for carbon removal (CDR) in Canada is tipping towards takeoff, but it remains to be seen if the sector could kick its “training wheels” and fly on the compliance side without voluntary corporate investment.
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 MoreBRIEFING: Malaysia bets on Article 6 for conditional cuts in carbon market policy
Malaysia has launched its National Carbon Market Policy (DPKK), setting out a framework to develop a domestic market and tap international finance under the Paris Agreement to help deliver on conditional emissions reduction targets.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: How data centres can help to squeeze the expense of direct air capture
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.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Uncertain legal nature of voluntary carbon credits hinders market growth
Scaling carbon credit financing and insurance remains a challenge as the market continues to grapple with legal and accounting uncertainties, according to a position paper published Tuesday.
Read MoreECS26: FEATURE – Dented investor confidence as EU carbon market grapples with policy risk, political pressure
The EU carbon market is being increasingly shaped by political intervention, macroeconomic uncertainty, and shifting structural drivers, experts said, warning that investor confidence has been severely dented.
Read MoreVCM REPORT: CORSIA prices strengthen, Indonesia opens up to international carbon market after three years
Spot credits for Phase 1 of CORSIA traded around $14 this week, while the ending of Indonesia’s moratorium on selling voluntary carbon units internationally looks set to unleash a flood of fresh REDD issuances onto the market.Â
Read MoreBRIEFING: Colombia’s troubled national carbon registry haunts regulatory efforts
Limits to Colombia’s national carbon project registry (RENARE) are stunting progress toward launching the national ETS (Spanish: PNCTE), inhibiting voluntary market (VCM) regulation, and necessitating Article 6 workarounds, speakers said at the Colombia Carbon Forum last week.
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: Lawmaker backs EU ETS price corridor to shore up green investment
French centrist MEP Pascal Canfin sees a price corridor for the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) as a realistic way to marry market flexibility with the predictability investors need, telling Carbon Pulse it can be designed inside existing market rules without being challenged as a new tax.
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