COMMENT: The Project Developer Forum’s voluntary carbon market aspirations for 2025
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) faced challenges in 2024 with low prices and limited activity, but key developments – such as advancements in standards, Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, and COP29 breakthroughs – set the stage for growth. The Project Developer Forum outlines its seven aspirations for 2025, focussing on improving credit integrity, policy alignment, corporate engagement, and market innovation to revitalise carbon offsetting and advance climate action.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Buying into Carbon Removal – How Procurement Can Secure Europe’s Climate Leadership
The EU must prioritise carbon dioxide removal (CDR) through enhanced policy support, investment, and procurement initiatives to achieve climate goals, drive economic growth, and establish itself as a leader in cleantech innovation and competitiveness, according to Carbon Gap.
Read MoreCOMMENT: The UK ETS’ inbuilt advantage means reforms can take more time
This spring, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen will meet to discuss UK-EU relations and future areas of cooperation as the new relationship between the two develops. Linking the UK and EU ETS could be on the agenda.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: Paris-aligned permanence does not require eternity
This blog argues that while permanent removals are essential, Paris-aligned mitigation requires massive carbon removals now, which only nature can deliver.
Read MoreCOMMENT: A purposeful scientific community of practice can help carbon markets deliver impact at scale
Nature-based solutions, particularly those harnessed by the voluntary carbon market, play a critical role in addressing the urgent interlinked crises of climate change and biodiversity loss by mobilising private finance for conservation and restoration, fostering interdisciplinary research, and ensuring ethical practices, even as they face scrutiny and require continuous improvement to scale their impact effectively.
Read MoreCOMMENT: After COP29, companies can no longer sit on the sidelines
As COP29 concludes, the progress on Article 6.4 signals potential for a robust global carbon market, but with a $1 trillion annual funding gap, companies must step up, leveraging emerging solutions like streamlined carbon credit auctions to decarbonise and secure a competitive, sustainable future.
Read MoreDOCUSERIES: Inbetween Stories – Exploring the intersection of technology and climate change
Inbetween Stories, a six-part docuseries by Carbon Pulse reporter Allison Gacad, takes a critical look at the knowledge, capital, and humanity behind Metro Vancouver’s climate solutions, exploring the intersection of technology and climate change. Watch all episodes for free.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: The time is right for a forest moonshot in the US
Despite bipartisan support and progress in implementing natural climate solutions, the U.S. needs a significant, coordinated effort, or “moonshot,” to increase reforestation, protect forests, and manage lands sustainably to meet national climate goals, overcome current barriers, and prevent the loss of millions of acres of forest by mid-century, writes Sacha Spector, Program Director for the Environment at the Doris Duke Foundation.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Embracing nature in corporate strategy
One year on from the launch of the TNFD framework, the data and technology to measure, report and act on nature exists already and is improving by the day. The message from stakeholders is clear: embedding nature into decision making is becoming an expectation not an option. The time to act is now, writes Natcap’s Sebastian Leape.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Closing the CBAM scrap loophole – A critical move for climate & competitiveness
The EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) currently fails to equally apply carbon costs to imported aluminium products, allowing re-melted aluminium to bypass these costs and undermining the competitiveness of European aluminium recyclers, but there is still time for the bloc’s decision-makers to close this loophole.
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