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 15, 20222 min readVerra and Pachama: World’s Largest Carbon Program Pilots Digital Measuring of Forest CarbonVerra and Pachama introduced last month a cutting-edge digital measurement, reporting, and verification pilot for nature-based solutions,...
Dec 13, 20222 min readWorld Bank, partners launch tracking system to carbon credit marketsIETA , World Bank , the Government of Singapore and Google.org are the founding partners and supporters of a platform launched last...
Dec 12, 20222 min readEU takes steps towards first voluntary carbon removal certificationLast November 30 the European Commission adopted a proposal for a first EU-wide voluntary framework to reliably certify high-quality...
Dec 11, 20222 min readH2MED Project: Hydrogen pipeline between Spain and France to be complete by 2030In a meeting last Friday December 9 at the Summit of Southern European Union countries, Portugal, Spain and France formalized the...
Dec 8, 20221 min readBrazil: Offshore wind complexes, updated maps of projects under licensing66 offshore wind farms under development, equivalent to 169 GW. This was the situation in Brazil in August 2022, as per our post "Bill in...
Dec 6, 20222 min readMalaysia to launch Voluntary Carbon Market Exchange this weekMalaysia will be launching the long-awaited Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) Exchange on Dec 9 to drive the nation's environmental change...
Dec 5, 20221 min readJapan: New technologies to capture CO2 from airNature on one side, and technology on the other. And science on both. "Pulling carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere like trees do, is...
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...
Nov 29, 20222 min readCOP27 and Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS)The Global CCS Institute, which was at COP27 in Egypt as an observer, debater and promoter of carbon capture, has just released an...