IEA: Growth of renewables in major economies moving world closer to tripling goal. Should we expect greater ambitions in country NDCs in 2025?
See why the Brazilian policy for paying for environmental services as of January 2021 still does not fully work.
Payments for a wide range of environmental services in Brazil were established by law in 2021. See what they would be. And tomorrow we will comment on why they still don't work fully.
Dec 4, 20221 min readAbout the Climate Change Nonprofit That Didn’t Ask For FTX’s MoneyBut Got $200,000 If yesterday the article was about the prospects of (carbon) credits becoming a sort of currency through tokenization...
Dec 3, 20221 min read"Carbon is going to be very close to a currency"Speaking at a side session at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Michael Sheren, G20 co-chairman and former Bank of England senior advisor said...
Dec 2, 20221 min readEuropean Comission approves new rules on sustainability reporting for companies and multinationalsEurope. The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) approved by the European Parliament on November 28 will make companies...
Dec 1, 20221 min readBrazil: regulation of the carbon credit marketAccording to information from Agência Senado, the bill that regulates the so-called carbon market, the Brazilian Market for Emissions...
Nov 21, 20221 min readCentral Bank of Brazil defines accounting records for carbon credits and other sustainability assetsThe Central Bank of Brazil (BCB) has just issued Normative Instruction No. 325, which defines the accounting record, in the chart of...
Nov 21, 20221 min readTransforming the Economics and Governance of WaterAs we have been posting in the last days, the water situation in the World does not seem trivial. Specially when the natural water cycle...
Nov 20, 20221 min readScientists Map Huge Undersea Fresh-Water Aquifer Offshore U.S. AtlanticContinuing with articles on water as the world awaits the results of COP27. Another interesting discovery by geologists from Columbia...
Nov 19, 20222 min readA country can print money, but it cannot print water (and it can import soybeans, “virtual water”)While the World expects to the see the COP27 developments, here are more climate related news from our Planet A, the Earth that went from...
Nov 17, 20222 min readRelease of Fossil CO2 and Climate Change: 1977 memo to the PresidentOn July 7, 1977, Frank Press wrote an interesting memo to Jimmy Carter, then President of the United States. The memorandum is titled...
Nov 16, 20222 min readThe Stone Age, the Oil Age and the “OPEC of the Forests”It was the CarbonCreditMarkets blog that early in November highlighted the pre-COP27 meeting held between October 3rd and 5th in...