Brazilian bank to establish trading desk to facilitate carbon credit...
A large Brazilian financial services firm is working to set up a trading desk following its inaugural sale of carbon credits to a major multinational bank, the company announced Wednesday.
View ArticleIncreasing wildfires jeopardising efforts to protect Brazilian Amazon,...
The Brazilian Amazon is seeing greater numbers of wildfires this year despite lower deforestation rates, threatening progress to conserve the biome, researchers said in a letter published Monday.
View ArticleECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE – Shades of REDD+: Reforming the International...
Next week, the Republic of the Congo will host the Three Basins Summit of tropical forest basins, which account for 80% of the world’s tropical forests, house two-thirds of terrestrial biodiversity,...
View ArticleVast majority of world’s coal companies have failed to set exit dates -report
Around 95% of the world's thermal coal value chain lacks a phaseout commitment and only half of those with exit dates have timelines aligned with the Paris Agreement, according to an NGO-compiled...
View ArticleBrazil Senate committee to hear REDD+ project land theft allegations in Para...
The Brazilian Senate Environment committee on Wednesday approved a lawmaker’s request to investigate allegations that linked avoided deforestation carbon credit project developers in Para state with...
View ArticleMajor financial trade body calls for standardised accounting across carbon...
A lack of specific accounting standards for carbon credit trading has led a major financial industry trade association to publish a whitepaper offering guidance for the treatment of such units.
View ArticleVCM Report: REDD prices splinter, corresponding adjustments create headache...
Demand continued to diverge in the voluntary carbon market over the past week, with some corporates seeking cheap REDD avoided deforestation credits, while others eye ACR-certified units eligible for...
View ArticleSeven Brazilian states sign regional carbon market agreement
A treaty promising to plant 100 million native trees across southern and southeastern Brazil and create a self-regulatory carbon market, potentially with sectoral emissions limits, was signed by seven...
View ArticleNations need to ‘re-strategise’ international cooperation on climate action...
A new evaluation of government decarbonisation efforts ahead of the UN's first-ever ‘global stocktake’ paints a grim picture of the current state of climate action, leading the authors to urge nations...
View ArticleBrazil agricultural association pushes for Article 6.4 recognition of...
Nations gathered at the COP28 UN climate summit next month should include carbon credits from forestry-based activities in the final rules for the Article 6.4 successor mechanism to the Kyoto Protocol,...
View ArticleChevron acquisition of US oil company won’t affect $750 mln carbon credit...
The $750-million dollar deal between New York-headquartered Hess and the Guyanese government for the purchase of tens of millions of avoided deforestation carbon credits will not be affected by the...
View ArticleResearchers propose new pricing approach to restore faith in voluntary carbon...
Researchers have unveiled a new approach to valuing carbon credits that they say brings much-needed transparency, accountability, and comparability to the global voluntary carbon markets, specifically...
View ArticleCORRECTION – Forest Investment Associates prepares nature positive strategy
A working forestry strategy with a nature positive objective in Latin America is in development by asset manager Forest Investment Associates (FIA), Carbon Pulse has learned.
View ArticleNew research shows greater range for regional warming caused by Amazon...
New research published Monday concludes that deforestation in the Amazon has a more drastic and long-reaching warming effect on non-local land surfaces than previously known, suggesting an even greater...
View ArticleIndigenous group drops REDD+ appeal over committee dispute
An Indigenous group appealing Guyana's jurisdictional REDD+ programme said it was forced to give up on its appeal Friday, claiming the committee overseeing the complaint was stacked by the standard...
View ArticleStudy unveils new theory to help better predict global forest carbon uptake
A new study has shed new light on the intricate relationships between tree growth, mortality, and reproduction in global forests and how these factors interact to affect carbon absorption.
View ArticleBrazil risks missing 2050 net zero emissions goal without supercharging NBS...
Brazil's path to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 could be jeopardised unless the country significantly ramps up its nature-based solutions (NBS), particularly ending deforestation and restoring...
View ArticleUAE royal-owned firm signs partnership with Brazilian environmental assets...
A company linked to the royal family in Dubai has entered into a strategic partnership to promote a Brazilian startup that issues environmental tokens to landowners encompassing soil, water,...
View ArticleCrypto exchange Coinbase to delist Moss carbon credit altcoin over compliance...
Major cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will delist the Moss Carbon Credit (MCO2) altcoin on Nov. 14 due to asset-related and compliance concerns.
View ArticleBrazil increases NDC stringency
The Brazilian federal government has submitted stronger Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) targets to the UNFCCC, increasing the country's ambition to reduce emissions - the first official change...
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