COP16: Electricity company announces Colombian biodiversity credit project

Published 16:50 on October 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 16:50 on October 29, 2024  / /  Americas, Biodiversity, South & Central

A Colombian energy transmission company has announced its support for a small voluntary biodiversity credit project in Colombia with the aim of helping open up a market.

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ADB issues first biodiversity, nature bond

Published 15:25 on October 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 15:25 on October 29, 2024  /  Americas, Asia Pacific, Biodiversity, South & Central

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Tuesday announced it has issued its first biodiversity and nature bond, with the 10-year issue being purchased by Japanese life insurance company Dai-ichi.

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Biodiversity credit company announces data partnership

Published 11:14 on October 29, 2024  /  Last updated at 11:14 on October 29, 2024  / /  Africa, Americas, Biodiversity, EMEA, South & Central

A biodiversity credit project developer and a data provider have announced a partnership with the aim of scaling projects in countries across Africa, South America, and Europe, Carbon Pulse has learned.

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Significant market opportunity for biodiversity-centred agricultural carbon projects in LATAM, Caribbean -report

Published 23:18 on October 28, 2024  /  Last updated at 23:18 on October 28, 2024  / /  Americas, Biodiversity, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Carbon credit projects that centre biodiversity in the agricultural sector of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) can attract broader investment and meet both climate and biodiversity targets, said a report authored by voluntary carbon market (VCM) proponents on Monday.

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ART programme publishes another Brazilian state’s J-REDD concept

Published 22:12 on October 28, 2024  /  Last updated at 22:12 on October 28, 2024  / /  Americas, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

The Secretariat of the ART carbon credit standard announced Monday it has published another Brazilian state’s concept under its TREES jurisdictional certification programme.

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COP16: BRIEFING – UN biodiversity talks fuel optimism for ocean track

Published 21:48 on October 26, 2024  /  Last updated at 21:48 on October 26, 2024  / /  Americas, Biodiversity, International, South & Central

UN negotiations in Colombia have led to “excellent progress” towards creating a new process for identifying key marine biodiversity areas, in a move that observers consider essential for achieving some of the most critical global ocean targets.

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COP16: INTERVIEW – Biodiversity credits should be rethought as contributions to national strategies

Published 18:00 on October 26, 2024  /  Last updated at 19:23 on October 25, 2024  / /  Americas, Biodiversity, EMEA, International, South & Central

A France-based organisation has published a market framework to align biodiversity credit projects with national strategies, enabling companies to claim their contribution to governments’ targets on nature, the co-founders told Carbon Pulse.

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NGOs, private sector must abandon orthodoxy to scale nature-based CDR -panellists

Published 19:16 on October 25, 2024  /  Last updated at 19:16 on October 25, 2024  / /  Americas, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Conservation non-profits, investors, and offtakers alike must step outside their traditional ideologies if nature-based carbon removals (CDR) are to scale, according to the architects of a major CDR deal speaking at COP16 in Cali, Colombia on Friday.

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Global wind turbine supply chain linked to illegal Amazon deforestation -investigation

Published 19:11 on October 25, 2024  /  Last updated at 19:11 on October 25, 2024  / /  Americas, Asia Pacific, China, EMEA, South & Central, US

A global increased push for wind energy has led to a rise in the illegal logging of balsa wood in Ecuador and Peru, resulting in deforestation and violation of Indigenous rights, according to a report published Wednesday by a London-based investigative non-profit.

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COP16: INTERVIEW – South Pole launches habitat bank for Colombian biodiversity compliance market

Published 15:54 on October 25, 2024  /  Last updated at 15:54 on October 25, 2024  / /  Americas, Biodiversity, International, Nature-based, South & Central, Voluntary

Carbon project developer and biodiversity crediting entrant South Pole on Friday announced the launch of a restoration-focused ‘habitat bank’ in partnership with Colombian non-profit Salvamontes at COP16 in Cali.

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