If you don’t work in sustainability or finance, chances are that all the recent talk about carbon credits and carbon markets go over your head. Is it a newfangled financial instrument meant to alleviate an emitter’s guilt? Is it a form of carbon tax? What makes it worse is that all the recent developments on this front are clad in jargon – implementation agreements, Article 6, corresponding adjustments. Despite the technicalities involved, these developments are not something that only sustainability or finance people should care about. Politically and economically, the carbon market is also interesting, especially given the recent inward…
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Image source: Getty Images The financial pages are packed with articles warning that we’re heading for a stock market crash. Of course they are. It’s October, after all. This is often seen as the most volatile month, home to the Panic of 1907, the Wall Street Crash of 1929, Black Monday in 1987, and some of the sharpest falls during the 2008 financial crisis. Plenty of people are warning that markets could buckle again, as tech stocks pour huge sums into AI and investors fret over whether they’ll get a return on all of this investment. Valuations look stretched, with…
Image source: Getty Images Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been one of the most enriching stocks to own over the past decade. Across this time, and despite much drama along the way, it’s up around 2,470%. Today, Tesla is still proving the naysayers wrong, with its share price nearing an all-time high. NIO (NYSE:NIO), on the other hand, has been an altogether different story. Since listing in 2018, the stock has spent more time falling than rising. And currently at $7, it’s around 89% off a high of $62 reached back in 2021. Yet so far this year, NIO (+59%) is outperforming…
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Karbon-X Corp, a leader in end-to-end climate solutions, is advancing the development of the Alberta Solar Rewards Program .The initiative is designed to enable homeowners with rooftop solar systems to generate verified carbon credits under Alberta’s Technology (TIER) framework. Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September 30, 2025 — Calgary, AB / September 30th, 2025 / Karbon-X Corp. (OTCQX: KARX), a leader in end-to-end climate solutions, is advancing the development of the Alberta Solar Rewards Program in partnership with an Alberta-based solar provider. The initiative is designed to enable homeowners with rooftop solar systems to generate verified carbon credits under Alberta’s Technology Innovation…
I was recently asked what tools and platforms you use for investing. I never stopped to think about it before. So, I did it in the hope that it may be of some interest to the reader.As older readers would know, I invest in NPS (mandatory), PPF (just enough to keep it alive and ready for one-way rebalancing), Mutual Funds and a small exposure to stocks (via Zerodha)For the mutual funds, I invest “directly” via respective fund house portals. There is no special reason for this other than an old habit. I invested directly via these portals even before the…
Blue Connections IT has met the requirements of the Climate Active Carbon Neutral Standard for Organisations for the third consecutive year. The carbon neutral certification, awarded by Climate Active and independently assessed by Pangolin Associates, was for Blue Connections IT’s business operations for the financial year ending June 30, 2024. Blue Connections IT’s total footprint for FY24 was 1,040 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, fully offset using eligible carbon credits that meet the criteria under the Climate Active Carbon Neutral Standard. These included electricity consumption, business travel, employee commuting, freight and logistics, and professional services. During the year, Blue Connections…
The International Air Transport Association (IATA), together with carbon market stakeholders, is calling on governments worldwide to urgently address the extremely limited supply of carbon credits available for airlines to fulfil their obligations under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).Specifically, the signatories call on governments to issue Letters of Authorisation (LoAs) which enable the release of CORSIA Eligible Emissions Units (EEUs) for purchase by airlines.The timely issuance of LoAs is key to:Creating a robust and transparent market for CORSIA EEUs;Facilitating the successful implementation of CORSIA;Safeguarding the environmental integrity of international aviation’s climate commitments.“CORSIA is a vital…
(Photo credit: Unsplash) Source: The Straits Times Three of the four projects that Singapore recently secured its first set of nature-based carbon credits from will use two newly approved methodologies that will be added to the Republic’s eligibility list for international carbon crediting, with additional safeguards. Both protocols fall under carbon crediting programme Verra, and will be included in the implementation agreements that Singapore has signed with Peru and Ghana, where the three projects are sited. The first applies to afforestation, reforestation and revegetation (ARR) projects. It sets out rules for quantifying carbon dioxide captured by planting trees in an area that previously did…
Asian countries leverage Paris Agreement Article 6.2 through international carbon trading to achieve new NDC targets.（Image: iStock） Following the establishment of detailed framework for bilateral cooperation under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement during COP29 in Baku, countries have been strengthening their implementation of international carbon trading. This article provides an overview and latest update on the status of bilateral cooperation under Article 6.2 across the Asia-Pacific region. Japan and Singapore have been so far the most active countries in implementing Article 6.2, with several agreements and MOUs inked in the previous months. In contrast, countries in the Pacific region…