Xpansiv partners with environmental exchange to expand voluntary market presence in Japan
Market infrastructure provider Xpansiv has teamed up with an environmental commodities exchange to provide Japanese companies with access to the global voluntary carbon market, it announced Friday.
Read MoreMalaysia in talks with neighbours to establish CCUS trading agreements
Malaysia is discussing bilateral agreements with countries in the region to establish itself as a carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) hub, while creating rules, regulations, and incentives to attract project developers, an official told a conference Wednesday.
Read MoreJapan looks to fund fluorocarbon projects under JCM
Japan has issued a funding call under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) to provide financial support for projects that can achieve greenhouse gas reductions by destroying alternative fluorocarbons from used equipment.
Read MoreCCS value chain hopefuls list litany of challenges to overcome
Industrial and oil and gas heavyweights have highlighted the long list of challenges that need to be figured out if their aspirations of establishing CCS value chains in Asia are to become a reality.
Read MoreBusiness coalition urges Japan to ramp up ambition in 2035 NDC
A coalition comprising major tech companies and environmental groups in Japan has called on the government to set an aggressive emissions reduction target for its 2035 nationally determined contribution (NDC).
Read MoreBRIEFING: Japan using glut of gas to spread influence in Southeast Asia at expense of climate, critics say
Japan is using its excess volumes of LNG to shape, and in many ways slow down, the energy transition in Southeast Asia, by financing gas infrastructure abroad and promoting transboundary CO2 markets as a decarbonisation solution that critics say is yet-to-be-proven and unrealistic.
Read MoreJapan considers government procurement of DAC carbon credits, draft methodologies for project development
Japan is considering government procurement of direct air capture (DAC) carbon credits in a bid to boost demand, while several relevant methodologies under the domestic offset programme are being developed.
Read MoreJapanese consortium to pilot urban DAC technology
A group of Japanese companies will pilot a technology that captures CO2 in urban spaces and uses it to grow vegetables and other plants that can be sold on the spot at places like railway stations in one of the country’s biggest cities.
Read MoreJapan publishes draft JCM methodology for rice cultivation, first in agricultural sector
Japan on Friday published a draft methodology under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) for an increasingly popular farming technique, as the country seeks to expand the scope of the bilateral programme to cover overseas agricultural carbon projects.
Read MoreJapan picks nine advanced projects to support CCS commercialisation
Japan has selected advanced carbon capture and storage (CCS) projects for the creation of a CCS value chain, as the country aims to secure a capacity of storing up to 12 million tonnes of CO2 by the end of this decade, the government announced Friday.
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