BRIEFING: US data centres, AI growth add pressure for transmission permitting reform -panellists
As data centres and artificial intelligence drives electricity demand across the US, permitting wait times for transmission lines will need to be dramatically sped up in a number of ways, panellists said Monday, from limiting lawsuits against transmission projects to centralizing permitting authority in the federal government.
Read MoreMajority of large asset managers fail to use influence to drive climate policy -report
Most of the world’s largest insurers and pension funds — representing over $17 trillion in assets — fail to use their significant influence to advocate for climate policy in line with science-based pathways to net zero, according to new analysis by a non-profit.
Read MoreEuropean country donates up to $21 mln to Brazil’s Amazon Fund
Brazil’s national development bank announced Friday that a European nation has donated up to $21.1 million to the Amazon Fund, aiming to help combat deforestation and promote sustainable development.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: US non-profit to launch Ethiopian methane carbon credit project
A North Carolina-based research non-profit is set to launch a carbon credit project in Ethiopia with a US development agency, aiming to expand its approach for reducing enteric methane emissions from small farmers’ livestock in the developing world, representatives of the organisation told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of COP29.
Read MoreVCM Report: Verra carbon credit retirements breach 7 mln as market shows signs of life
Retirements in the Verra voluntary carbon registry surged to just over 7 million last week, as the market started to show some life after having failed to ignite after the COP climate talks last month.
Read MoreBeZero launches standardised datasets for carbon project analysis
Carbon credit rating provider BeZero has introduced standardised datasets with technical carbon data to simplify project analysis, the London-based agency announced on Monday.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Tech company works with Amazon to leverage data centre waste for carbon removals
A tech company is developing its carbon removal technology in partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), enabling data centres to capture CO2 from waste heat and air flows.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Powder to clean up harmful algae promises to quickly remove carbon
A tech startup working to rid harmful algae growth from lakes and reservoirs believes it can remove carbon, avoid methane emissions, and restore biodiversity in a relatively simple way that can be funded by voluntary credits, the first of which are due to be sold from a project in Utah.
Read MoreXpansiv launches carbon removals trading, lists 75k new forest credits
Xpansiv, an environmental market services provider, on Monday launched new spot exchange and portfolio management tools to support the trading and handling of carbon removal credits as a separate market segment.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Article 6 decision marks ‘fundamental’ shift in landscape for project developers
The breakthrough on Article 6, achieved in Baku last month, will have a huge impact on the ground in terms of project development, according to executives at a global association for the sector.
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