Multilateral forest facility’s investment arm finds host in Luxembourg
The investment arm of the Brazilian COP30 presidency’s flagship Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) will be hosted in Luxembourg, the TFFF’s newest contributor, it was revealed Friday.
Read MoreEU set to integrate carbon removals into national climate goals for the first time
Member states will for the first time be able to use EU-certified permanent carbon removal credits to meet their national climate targets for agriculture, forestry, and other non-ETS sectors under proposals due to be presented later this year, a senior official has said.
Read MoreCEE Roundup: New Bulgarian government may add to regional pushback on EU climate rules
Last month’s change of government in Bulgaria could sharpen Sofia’s tone on EU climate policy, adding to wider Eastern European pressure for more flexibility on carbon costs, industrial rules, and border carbon fee exposure.
Read MoreCanadian timber company reports emissions cuts, $13.3 mln in credit revenues
A Canadian-headquartered forestry company this week reported progress towards its climate targets, including lower emissions and new revenues from carbon market activities, in its latest sustainability report.
Read MoreNatural forest expansion sequesters more carbon than secondary forests in tropics -study
Natural forest expansion across the moist tropics has sequestered more above-ground carbon than secondary forests, but the sink remains far smaller than emissions from tropical forest loss, according to a new study.
Read MoreEU needs to find “middle ground” for CORSIA credit eligibility, says rating agency
EU-approved CORSIA Phase 1 supply, based on provisional eligibility criteria, could reach as many as 160 million credits across the three-year period, according to a rating agency, but the company urged that Brussels takes a more moderate stance as this total is unlikely to be anywhere near as high in reality.
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 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 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.Â
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