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The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance has expanded its membership to 110 public and private organisations, nearly four times its founding roster of 29 members from 2014. The growth follows suc…
29 Apr 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has welcomed the Science Based Targets initiative's decision to extend the use of environmental attribute certificates, including voluntary carbon…
10 Apr 2024
The approval of ACR, Gold Standard, and Climate Action Reserve (CAR) as the first CCP-Eligible programs marks a significant milestone for the voluntary carbon market, bringing a quality label to an in…
5 Apr 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has approved ACR, Climate Action Reserve (CAR) and Gold Standard as the first carbon-crediting programs to meet its high-integrity Core Carbon Pri…
5 Apr 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has set out its framework for transparency across all aspects of its work, from program assessments to category reviews and ongoing market oversig…
5 Apr 2024
Annette Nazareth, Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and former US Securities and Exchange Commission member, has set out why the ICVCM has adopted a regulatory approach to…
28 Mar 2024
Gaurav Upadhyay joins IEEFA as Energy Finance Analyst for South Asia's Sustainable Finance practice, bringing more than 12 years of experience in climate finance, just transition and renewable energy …
26 Mar 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published a detailed guide explaining how carbon removal projects fit within its Core Carbon Principles framework, ahead of wider assessments …
19 Mar 2024
German electrolyser producer Sunfire raised 315 million euros, including a 215 million euro Series E round and a 100 million euro EIB loan, to scale green hydrogen technology. For Indian green hydroge…
4 Mar 2024
Canada announced plans to issue its second Canadian-dollar green bond, becoming the first sovereign issuer to include certain nuclear energy expenditures in a green bond framework. For Indian sustaina…
1 Mar 2024
Brazil partnered with GFANZ and its development bank BNDES on two initiatives to scale climate transition investment and advance the climate priorities of its G20 Presidency. For Indian sustainable fi…
27 Feb 2024
Climate tech startup Clairity Technology raised $6.75 million in a seed round to scale its Direct Air Capture carbon removal solution, which captures dilute carbon dioxide using less infrastructure an…
23 Feb 2024
Sage Geosystems raised $17 million in a Series A round to fully fund Earth Store, a 3MW commercial geothermal energy storage facility in Texas based on its Geopressured Geothermal System technology. T…
22 Feb 2024
Verizon Communications fully allocated the $1 billion in proceeds from its May 2023 green bond to renewable energy purchase agreements supporting projects under development in five US states. The fift…
21 Feb 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published a detailed explanation of its assessment process for carbon-crediting programs and credit categories, simultaneously retiring the te…
1 Feb 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has announced it will assess more than 100 active carbon credit methodologies grouped into 36 categories, targeting the first assessment decisions…
31 Jan 2024
Iberdrola secured a €300 million ESG-linked loan from the World Bank's International Finance Corporation to fund renewable projects in fossil-fuel-dependent countries including Morocco, Poland and Vie…
12 Jan 2024
Fourth Power secured $19 million in Series A funding led by DCVC to scale its carbon-block thermal battery and build a 1 MWh-e prototype near Boston by 2026. Long-duration storage advances like this a…
15 Dec 2023
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market reported broad government, NGO, and regulator support for the Core Carbon Principles at COP28 in Dubai, but expressed disappointment that no Artic…
13 Dec 2023
Lufthansa Group signed a contract to pre-purchase 40,000 tonnes of CO2 removal credits from Airbus's Carbon Capture Offer service, at 10,000 tonnes annually for four years from 2026. As aviation decar…
9 Dec 2023
IEEFA has submitted recommendations to the Australian Treasury's Sustainable Finance Strategy consultation, calling for mandatory sustainability disclosures that include Scope 3 and influenced emissio…
1 Dec 2023
Annette Nazareth of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) and Rachel Kyte of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) have jointly called for deeper decarbonisa…
30 Nov 2023
As global leaders convene at COP28 in Dubai, the UN's first global stocktake confirms current greenhouse gas emissions are incompatible with Paris Agreement pathways, while developing and least-develo…
29 Nov 2023
Ahead of COP28, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative issued a joint statement calling on businesses to urgently cut emissions and…
29 Nov 2023
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