INTERVIEW: Interactive map platform to help decarbonise agribusiness launches
A Swiss startup on Wednesday launched a free web platform that leverages publicly available geospatial data to create interactive, high-resolution maps of land use change emissions factors, aiming to help decarbonise agribusiness in line with GHG Protocol and Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) guidelines.
Read MoreForest non-profit to build capacity for Indigenous-led Brazilian carbon finance strategy
A US-based international forest non-profit has announced a partnership with Brazil’s Ministry of Indigenous Peoples to support conservation, governance, and forest economies in Indigenous lands across Brazil.
Read MoreBrazilian agricultural emissions reductions should be valued at $11.54 per tonne CO2 -study
Peer-reviewed research that integrated various carbon price determinants from all over the world has estimated that Brazilian agricultural emissions reductions should carry an intrinsic valuation of $11.54 per tonne CO2 equivalent.
Read MoreBrazilian development bank, environment ministry open public consultation on carbon certification
Brazil’s National Bank for Economic Development (BNDES) and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) on Tuesday announced the opening of a public consultation on expanding homegrown capacity to certify carbon credits.
Read MoreCERAWeek: Energy transition global slowdown has ‘weeded out’ unrealistic project developers, panelists say
As the pace of the global energy transition slows faced with higher costs and a decreasing focus on decarbonisation, the field of clean energy projects and companies is thinning out in a way that is leaving only realistic projects standing, panellists said Tuesday at CERAWeek in Houston.
Read MoreBrazilian standard, Argentine carbon project platform sign MoU to integrate services
A Manaus-based carbon standard has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Buenos Aires-based carbon project development platform and marketplace to expand its foothold in Latin America, with an initial focus on Brazil and Argentina.
Read MoreJaguar stewardship project in Brazil issues 71,000 biodiversity credits
A Brazil-based environmental company has marketed over 71,000 biodiversity credits generated through a jaguar stewardship project in the Pantanal region over the last few years.
Read MoreCERAWeek: COPs due to enter ‘another phase’ in Belem, Article 6 awaits -experts
The function of COPs in the coming decade will evolve away from focusing on energy transition and towards adaptation and loss and damage financing, while Article 6 trading is expected to play a bigger role following last year’s historic deal, experts said Monday during CERAWeek.
Read MoreLATAM Roundup: The ‘forestry COP’ in full swing
The incoming Brazilian COP30 presidency is promoting initiatives and agendas to reduce deforestation and forest degradation – as Brazilian agriculture, forestry, and land use (AFOLU) projects dominated Verra’s Latin American voluntary carbon market (VCM) retirements for the week of Mar. 3-9.
Read MoreBrazil emphasises forest conservation, climate finance needs in first COP30 letter
Brazilian COP30 President-Designate Andre Correa do Lago on Monday published his first open letter, emphasising forest conservation, pledging to create an advisory body of past COP presidencies, and highlighting the importance of international climate finance reform.
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