ACX, Brazilian stock exchange launch domestic carbon registry
A new registry launched Wednesday for Brazilian carbon projects, announcing its first transaction at the Brazil Climate Summit in New York.
Read MoreUS university expands legal resources to address rise in carbon offset lawsuits
As the voluntary carbon credit industry has grown, so has the number of related lawsuits, prompting one US university to expand its legal resources to address this trend.
Read MoreRising underground coal mining will drive up India’s fugitive methane emissions, report says
India’s methane emissions from coal mining could double should it expand its domestic industry in order to reduce reliance on imports and feed its increasingly demanding power and steel sectors, a think tank has found.
Read MoreUS tech giant inks another carbon removals deal
A US-based tech giant has inked another deal to purchase CO2 removal credits, this time from a California-headquartered carbon-negative power company.
Read MoreEuro Markets: EUAs extend losses as jump in speculative net shorts fails to trigger squeeze
EU carbon prices fell for the fourth time in the last five days as sellers continued to dominate, despite a second strong build in speculative short positions that had prompted some participants to predict a short squeeze, while energy markets continued to see-saw in response to conflicting pressures of bearish demand, healthy storage levels, and continuing concerns over longer-term supply.
Read MoreDecarbonising the EU’s energy-intensives is still tough business, economists say
Energy intensive industries continue to face obstacles on their road to decarbonisation, according to economists from the European Central Bank (ECB), who raised concerns about the next phase of EU emissions trading.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Biodiversity credit company seeks to challenge Romanian govt over EU payments
A company overseeing a biodiversity credit pilot in Romania is seeking to show the government how its use of EU environmental payments is incentivising the degradation of hay meadows, Carbon Pulse has learned.
Read MoreFrontier strikes $4.5 mln in pre-purchase deals for carbon removals
The buyers club Frontier has facilitated its fourth round of carbon removal (CDR) pre-purchases, with $4.5 million spent on credits from nine project developers, including first-of-their-kind deals in India and Africa.
Read MoreBRIEFING: SBTi paves way for carbon removals under corporate net-zero standard in ‘cryptic’ update
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) published an update Wednesday that experts saw as opening the door for corporates to use removals as part of carbon neutralisation claims under the organisation’s net-zero standard.
Read MoreOver 650 UK farms have their soil carbon audited in ‘largest’ assessment yet
Over 650 UK farms have been assessed in the “largest and most thorough” baseline of environmental farm performance in the UK, in an effort to standardise a confusing landscape of processes for collecting the data, according to a report published on Wednesday.
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