Category: Carbon
Can Australia afford to wait for a green hydrogen future? – Cosmos Magazine
The ad is of course, at least in part, a canny business move for a man who’s investing heavily in a particular hydrogen-based future. But to actually make hydrogen fuel requires industrial processes, and it also needs to be stored at -253°C, no small feat. Brown hydrogen is produced from coal, through gasification – a […]
Setting the record straight on carbon offsets | RenewEconomy
Despite the absence of a global, regulated market to date, Australia has already made significant headway with creating its own carbon market. These actions are not a panacea, because there will always be a long-term need to decarbonise through technology. According to these standards, carbon offsetting can only be implemented by organisations to offset residual […]
Global Carbon Offset/Carbon Credit Trading Service Market Recent Investment and … – Sox Sphere
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African Energy Metals Provides Preliminary Solar and Carbon Credit Projections – Junior …
In addition to the negative environmental impacts of burning diesel fuel, the cost per kilowatt-hour for diesel generated power is roughly five times the cost per kWh of solar-generated power. Stephen Barley, Executive Chairman stated: “The carbon credit and alternative green energy sector is forecasted to be an area of tremendous growth over the next […]
Carbon credits top the agenda of soil conference | paNOW
“The whole system is structured around finding an emitter to pay you for sequestering carbon and the lion’s share of our pool for emitters is likely going to come from the U.S. …Read the full story
First Canadian-Listed Carbon Credit ETF To Begin Trading Today | the deep dive
The exchange traded fund aims to provide investors with exposure to carbon credits via the fund owning carbon credit futures. The European Union Allowance credits reportedly represented 90% of the total global value of carbon dioxide markets in 2021, with the global value of the entire space reported at 683 billion Euros last year. While […]
Cambodia looks toward carbon credits to fund forests – Asia News Network
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Know definitions of common carbon terms | Farm Progress
In this column, we will explore and understand different terms widely used in addressing greenhouse gas emission mitigation and carbon sequestration. Before discussing these terms, it is important to define carbon credit, which is calculated based on carbon-dioxide equivalent to limit the emission as mass equal to 1 ton of carbon dioxide per unit area […]
Plantation Sector Demands Creation of Voluntary Carbon Trading Market – Krishi Jagran
UPASI President M P Cherian emphasized the importance of a policy drive that allows Agri-plantations to trade in sequestered carbon. While rubber plantations offer the maximum carbon sequestration per hectare, other plantation crops such as tea, coffee, cardamom, and cocoa also have the ability to sequester carbon. The ITA’s Secretary-General, Arijit Raha, emphasized the importance […]
Hyderabad-based blockchain startup raises ₹4.2 crore – The Hindu
It is also moving aggressively on the hiring front, with plans to expand the team by recruiting 50 people by the end of 2022, the startup said. TrayamBhu, which is behind the TRST01 brand of products, said it is working with Telangana government on PDS traceability. …Read the full story
Indiana Forest Alliance creates strategy for protecting, maintaining Indianapolis’s trees …
The Indiana Forest Alliance has come up with a strategy for how to better protect urban forests in Indianapolis. She said many mature trees in Indianapolis neighborhoods are owned by the city and it’s the city’s responsibility to maintain them and remove fallen trees and branches. “If a branch falls, if it blocks the sidewalk […]
CME Group to Launch Trading of Emissions Offset Futures – Environment + Energy Leader
CME Group, a marketplace for trading futures, options, and more, recently announced it will launch CBL Core Global Emissions Offset futures on March 7, 2022, pending all relevant regulatory reviews. The pool of offset credits that underpin the CBL GEO, N-GEO and C-GEO contracts is deep, with approximately 230 million offsets available across these three different segments, […]
Voluntary carbon markets: Here to stay? – MINING.COM
In broad terms, carbon markets connect entities that generate carbon emissions with entities that have a surplus of carbon reduction. Why is this necessary? Energy-intensive industries can be tough, or even impossible, to fully decarbonise with current technologies. In our view, offsets can work effectively as a tool in the decarbonisation toolbox, but it is […]
Cropped, 9 February 2022: Food security fears; ‘Crypto’ carbon markets; Indigenous …
Millions face starvation in Afghanistan, threats of a Russian incursion into Ukraine are driving up wheat and corn prices, and Ethiopia is reeling under its worst drought in decades and civil war. Climate Home News found that a UK-based crypto firm was selling non-fungible tokens based on false claims of securing government tree-planting contracts. In […]
Plantation sector calls for creation of voluntary carbon trading market – The Hindu BusinessLine
At a seminar organised by the Indian Institute of Plantation Management Bengaluru in collaboration with the United Planters Association of South India and The Indian Tea Association, stakeholders of the plantation sector deliberated on the opportunities for tapping the carbon market potential for the sector. M P Cherian, President, UPASI, stressed upon the need for […]
ArcPacific Establishes ACP Carbon Corp. – The Kingston Whig Standard
The Company sees the voluntary carbon offset credit market as a rapidly evolving space, which may avail opportunities for ACP to form complementary partnerships and develop business models to take part in the monetization of such credits. Adrian Smith, CEO of ACP comments, “The Company is excited to explore new opportunities in the voluntary carbon […]
Biden’s Biggest Idea on Climate Change Is Remarkably Cheap – The Atlantic
“I will confess I was always a little skeptical of the tax incentives. “It’s very rare that we get opportunities to have policies with a benefit-to-cost ratio of 3 or 4 to 1. Since then, that bill has been cut in two, renamed the Build Back Better Act, killed, resurrected, maybe killed again, and generally […]
Corporate Giants Accused of Exaggerating Climate Plans – The Energy Mix
Of the 25 companies in the study, only three—A.P. SBTi Managing Director Alberto Carrillo Pineda told Climate Home he “welcomes stronger scrutiny”, adding that many of the issues identified in the report were addressed in a new net-zero standard the initiative introduced last October. Climate Home cites SBTi as “the most prominent standard-setter for corporate […]
Alberta Fossils Face Credit Crunch as Worried Investors Focus on Climate Risk – The Energy Mix
Financial regulators—including the Financial Stability Board, the international umbrella group of central banks and banking supervisors, and the newly-formed Network for Greening the Financial System, which comprises 31 central banks and regulators from around the world—are becoming increasingly concerned about the creditworthiness of borrowers exposed to the risks of climate change. The OSFI pilot study […]