UK waste wood BECCS project files planning application
A UK energy-from-waste wood company has submitted a planning application to add carbon capture technology to an existing bioenergy plant, it announced last week.
Read MoreColombian draft decree conditions carbon market continuation on emerging systems
Colombia has published a draft carbon markets decree addressing technical and safeguarding concerns with tools that don’t yet exist, also imposing new responsibilities on domestic and international entities, but leaving key implementation questions open.
Read MoreEU carbon farming rules face backlash as biodiversity safeguards watered down
The European Commission is facing mounting criticism over its forthcoming rulebook for certifying carbon farming activities, with campaigners warning that the framework risks undermining environmental integrity just as the EU seeks to expand carbon removals alongside its emissions trading and carbon border policies.
Read MoreJapan-led JCM faces hurdles, but NbS may offer a path forward, paper says
The effectiveness of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) remains constrained by institutional complexity and insufficient partner engagement, but Tokyo’s move to scale up nature-based projects may address the issue of limited credit issuance, a new paper argued.
Read MorePapua New Guinea unveils enhanced NDC, secures €2.1 mln in EU climate funding
Papua New Guinea has set a pathway to reach net zero emissions by 2030 and become net-negative by 2035 under a near-final update to its national climate pledge, while simultaneously securing new EU funding to strengthen climate finance, forest monitoring, and biodiversity governance.
Read MoreMachine learning-guided composting could turn global organic waste sector into carbon sink -researchers
Optimising composting practices using machine learning could transform the global organic waste sector from a net greenhouse gas emitter into a carbon sink while conserving nutrients for agriculture, according to a new study.
Read MoreLACS26: INTERVIEW – Verra sees Misiones approval as slingshot for new wave of jurisdictional REDD+ programmes
Several governments across Latin America and the Caribbean are studying how to replicate Argentina’s Misiones programme after it became the first jurisdictional REDD+ initiative approved under Verra’s Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework, the standard’s regional representative told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreMining drives 34 times more offsite forest loss than direct clearing in sub-Saharan Africa -study
Mining activities across sub-Saharan Africa have triggered far more deforestation beyond mine boundaries than within them, with every hectare of forest directly cleared for mining associated with nearly 34 additional hectares of offsite forest loss, according to a new study.
Read MoreCanada announces C$130 mln for forest sector transformation projects
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has awarded C$130 million ($93.6 mln) in federal funding to 56 forestry innovation projects, ranging from new low-carbon wood technologies, to supporting Indigenous participation and forest-sector businesses.
Read MoreOcean finance has risen sharply but remains far below levels needed for climate and conservation goals -analysis
Ocean finance has grown over the past decade, but funding remains concentrated outside some of the sectors most directly tied to decarbonisation and climate resilience, according to a new analysis.
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