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South Pole and GenZero launch new centre to scale ‘high-impact first-of-a-kind’ carbon credits in Asia
Co-led by two senior South Pole staff, the Singapore-based Asia Centre of Carbon Excellence seeks to grow nascent decarbonisation projects in the region, such as early coal phase-out, greener shipping fuels and carbon capture and storage.
Policy & Finance
‘There shouldn’t be an international tradeable unit of biodiversity’: The Nature Conservancy CEO
Jennifer Morris, who heads up the global conservation outfit, rules out preserving nature through internationally traded biodiversity credits as it does not make scientific sense, but says “like for like” regional certificates could work.
Energy storage and just transition costs would make such novel credits several times more expensive than the typical renewable energy or forest conservation offsets available today.
Carbon & Climate
Carbon credit industry watchdog ICVCM ‘absolutely willing to fail’ subpar certifiers as work enters key phase
The council will rule on major forest carbon project types and programmes, including market goliath Verra, in the coming months. The focus will be on nudging for improvements, a standards oversight and board member tells Eco-Business.
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