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- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Calls for Expert Panel Applications to Shape Carbon Standards
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting independent experts for a new panel term beginning in 2025, as the existing panel's mandate expires at year-end 2024. Selected membe…
- Sustainable Finance
Voluntary Carbon Market Body Recruits Independent Methodology Experts
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is filling Expert Panel vacancies for a new term commencing in 2025, as its current panel's mandate concludes at the end of 2024. The remunerated …
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Opens Applications for New Expert Panel Members
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting senior and young professionals to join its independent Expert Panel for a term of up to three years beginning in 2025. The panel adv…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Co-Hosts VCM Day at New York Climate Week 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market participated in New York Climate Week 2024, co-hosting a flagship event focused on scaling high-integrity voluntary carbon markets. Speakers from …
- Sustainable Finance
Indigenous Peoples Must Lead Reformed Voluntary Carbon Market, ICVCM Forum Argues
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has launched an Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) VCM Engagement Forum to give communities managing critical ecosystems a for…
- Sustainable Finance
Indigenous Communities Must Lead in Shaping Voluntary Carbon Market Reform
Indigenous Peoples and local communities must be central partners in shaping the reformed voluntary carbon market if it is to achieve its full potential to fund climate solutions and protect nature, a…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Welcomes CFTC Recognition of Core Carbon Principles in Derivatives Guidance
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market welcomed the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's guidance on voluntary carbon credit derivatives, which identifies the ICVCM's Core Carbon P…
- Climate & Nature
Google Buys Amazon Carbon Removal Credits from Brazil's Mombak
Google agreed to purchase 50,000 metric tons of carbon removal credits by 2030 from Brazilian startup Mombak, its first nature-based carbon project in South America. The deal reflects intensifying cor…
- Climate & Nature
India Secures $386 Billion in Pledges Toward 500 GW by 2030
India received $386 billion in funding commitments from states, developers, manufacturers and financial institutions to reach its 500 GW renewable energy target by 2030. Reliance Industries pledged 10…
- Regulations
FERC Pipeline Policy Expert Mattei Brings Regulatory Experience to IEEFA
Suzanne Mattei, an attorney with over 30 years of public interest law experience, has analysed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's policies on interstate pipeline approvals and conducted resear…
- Climate & Nature
Apple Reports 30% Lifecycle Emissions Cut for iPhone 16 Pro Models
Apple's Product Environmental Report shows a 30% reduction in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions for iPhone 16 Pro models versus a no-clean-electricity scenario, driven by low-carbon electricity and r…
- Regulations
EPA proposes updated ecolabels to steer sustainable federal procurement
The US EPA proposed its first comprehensive update in nearly a decade to its Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing, adding categories and tightening criter…
- Standards & Frameworks
Standard Chartered debt-finances UNDO enhanced rock weathering carbon removal
Standard Chartered provided debt funding to carbon removal developer UNDO, a structure rarely used in the sector and paired with a 4,000-tonne British Airways credit purchase facilitated by CUR8. The …
- Climate & Nature
Deloitte reports 85% of CxOs raised sustainability investment in 2024
Deloitte's 2024 CxO Sustainability Report found 85% of surveyed executives increased sustainability investments, up from 75% the prior year, with technology cited as a core enabler. The rising spend s…
- Sustainable Finance
CEEW Director Purkayastha Brings India Climate Finance Expertise to IEEFA
Dhruba Purkayastha, Director of Growth and Institutional Advancement at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water in India, has contributed to IEEFA's research network with over 30 years of experie…
- Sustainable Finance
IEEFA Climate Finance Analyst Brings India Energy Transition Expertise
Subham Shrivastava served as a Climate Finance Analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, working at the intersection of finance, climate policy and data modelling to suppor…
- Standards & Frameworks
GHG Protocol Appoints Alexander Bassen as First Independent Standards Board Chair
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol named Professor Alexander Bassen of the University of Hamburg as the inaugural Chair of its new Independent Standards Board, the body overseeing the update of the Corporate…
- Sustainable Finance
New Zealand cuts ETS unit supply from 45 million to 21 million
New Zealand will cut emission units auctioned under its Emissions Trading Scheme from 45 million to 21 million across 2025 to 2029 to counter oversupply that depressed carbon prices and caused failed …
- Standards & Frameworks
ICVCM Urges Faster Scope 3 Clarity as Every Tonne of Emissions Counts
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market called on the Science Based Targets initiative to accelerate its process for providing companies with clarity on Scope 3 emissions and the role of…
- Sustainable Finance
ICVCM Rejects Eight Renewable Energy Methodologies Covering 236 Million Credits
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market ruled that carbon credits from existing renewable energy methodologies, covering approximately 236 million unretired credits and 32% of the volunt…
- Sustainable Finance
Iberdrola signs €500 million green loan for 897 MW renewables
Iberdrola secured a 15-year €500 million syndicated green loan from ICO, Sabadell, and HSBC, backed by Cesce, to fund 897 MW of wind, solar, and battery projects in the US, Australia, and Italy. The f…
- Standards & Frameworks
SBTi Surpasses 6,000 Companies with Validated Science-Based Targets
The number of companies with Science Based Targets initiative-validated emission reduction targets exceeded 6,000 in August 2024, marking a milestone for corporate climate action. Net-zero targets wit…
- Sustainable Finance
Eight-Member Forum Gives Indigenous Communities Voice in Carbon Markets
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market named eight members of a new Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities VCM Engagement Forum representing Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and t…
- Standards & Frameworks
SBTi Details Transition Path from Near-Term to Net-Zero for Financial Institutions
The Science Based Targets initiative published a comparison of its Financial Institutions Near-Term Criteria V2 and the draft Financial Institutions Net-Zero Standard in August 2024, clarifying how ba…