INTERVIEW: Frontier wants more corporates to buy into carbon removals
A pause in Microsoft’s carbon removal purchases should galvanise corporates to buy into a market that sorely needs them, the market’s second largest buyer told Carbon Pulse.Â
Read MoreANALYSIS: Latest Safeguard compliance data continues last year’s trends, for better or worse
This week’s release of surrender data for the second year of Australia’s reformed Safeguard Mechanism has highlighted both the positives and drawbacks of the scheme, depending on who you ask.
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.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Pricing biodiversity in carbon markets can boost nature tech revenues amid sector headwinds
Measuring biodiversity co-benefits in carbon markets could offer nature tech companies an opportunity to increase revenues, at a time when the sector is set to face headwinds due to funding challenges, according to experts.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Airlines face CORSIA bottleneck as government approvals lag
Airlines preparing for compliance under the UN’s international aviation offsetting scheme are running into a shortage of host country approvals needed to use carbon credits, even as project supply continues to grow.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Patchy emissions data risks slowing global carbon trading, UN reviewer says
Inconsistent methodologies and uneven data for calculating national greenhouse gas inventories are emerging as a constraint for the development of international carbon markets, a UN technical expert warned.
Read MorePOLL: Policy uncertainty caps EUAs as weak demand, fund retreat offset structural bullishness
Analysts have slashed their forecasts for EU carbon prices, which they say are now being driven more by political risk than fundamentals.
Read MoreFEATURE: Nature-based carbon market sees sun rising for ARR
Afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) projects have been enjoying a spell of popularity with experts suggesting demand for nature-based removal credits will likely climb higher, but, amid this week’s uncertainty over Microsoft’s future as a major buyer in the carbon removal (CDR) sector, it remains to be seen whether such predictions hold true.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: New Indigenous-led global fund targets ‘valley of death’ in clean energy projects
A newly-launched global Indigenous-led investment vehicle is aiming to close a persistent financing gap for renewable energy projects on Indigenous lands, with its backers arguing that current models continue to exclude communities from the economic benefits of the energy transition.
Read MoreFEATURE: Efforts ramp up globally to include Indigenous Peoples in carbon, clean energy projects Â
Indigenous Peoples globally are increasingly acting to have an active stake in carbon and clean energy projects on their lands, however ongoing structural barriers persist that need to be addressed if they are to reap the full benefit, according to experts and local leaders.Â
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