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CCS, how to resolve the incomplete carbon management chain

CCS, how to resolve the incomplete carbon management chain

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is often described as a singular, monolith...

Shaping Article 6 from a National Perspective: Singapore’s Carbon Tax

Shaping Article 6 from a National Perspective: Singapore’s Carbon Tax

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Singapore has emerged as a leader in recent carbon diplomacy efforts under ...

Quality & Integrity: What are Developers really thinking about?

Quality & Integrity: What are Developers really thinking about?

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. I recently published Part I of this short series on the words “qualit...

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, a soil carbon market

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, a soil carbon market

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP), led by the Northern R...

Integrity and Quality: The Words That Now Decide Prices in Carbon Markets

Integrity and Quality: The Words That Now Decide Prices in Carbon Markets

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. What do integrity and quality really mean? I have my own interpretatio...

Carbon insetting: decarbonising the supply chain by regenerating ecosystems

Carbon insetting: decarbonising the supply chain by regenerating ecosystems

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Faced with the environmental, social and economic crises we are e...

The secret weapon of timber construction

The secret weapon of timber construction

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The construction sector is one of the most polluting in Europe. Accord...

The return of carbon diplomacy

The return of carbon diplomacy

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Over the past year, two political developments have profoundly affecte...

Transition and international trade: China’s role at COP30

Transition and international trade: China’s role at COP30

From Belém - At COP30 in Belém, global trade was for the first time explicitly included in climate negotiations. It was inevitable: the transition is no longer just a matter of climate...

BRICS at a crossroads: mutual recognition or Article 6?

BRICS at a crossroads: mutual recognition or Article 6?

Relatively little attention was paid in the Western media to the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia, in 2024. Within the course of that summit, the BRICS Partnership on Carbon Markets was launc...

“Intractable” problems? A Door Selection to save carbon credits

“Intractable” problems? A Door Selection to save carbon credits

“It is highly likely that many of the problems festering in the carbon credit market are intractable, […] systemic problems with deep roots that cannot be solved by incremental changes....

The Rising Risk in Carbon Markets: Who’s Really Carrying It?

The Rising Risk in Carbon Markets: Who’s Really Carrying It?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In today’s evolving carbon market, one player is shouldering more and more risk: the project...

Climate, Indonesia launches its international carbon trading

Climate, Indonesia launches its international carbon trading

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 20th of January, Indonesia officially launched its international carbon market. Its domesti...

Startup: Restoring Biodiversity and Storing CO2 through Mycorrhizae with Funga

Startup: Restoring Biodiversity and Storing CO2 through Mycorrhizae with Funga

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Funga is a startup that harnesses recent developments in mycology to increase the carbon storage p...

COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)

COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a troubled launch, as countries scrambled to discuss a few of the trickier points of the neg...