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Australia’s National Greenhous gas and Energy Reporting Scheme sets a consistent reporting and data collection basis for thousands of businesses. This reports looks at how NGER regulation works for Carbon Capture and Storage.
The National Petroleum Council was commissioned by the US Secretary of Energy to identify challenges and enablers to achieve the deployment of low carbon intensity hydrogen (LCI H2) at scale through the entire value chain. This report summarizes the NPC key findings and recommendations published in April 2024.
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is a set of recommendations to help financial and corporate institutions to identify, assess, manage and disclose nature-related risks and their materiality. Building on the experience gained while developing the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations, the final TNFD recommendations were published in September 2023 after 2 years of multilateral work, consultation and pilot testing.
In 2020, ACRIS developed a White Paper1 that discussed the main regulatory and market instruments. Due to significant progress during recent years, an updated discussion was considered necessary, resulting in a report that is divided into two documents to cover a broader scope and to facilitate understanding. Part I updates and reviews Carbon Intervention Mechanisms (Emission Trading Systems, Carbon Taxes and Carbon Leakage Mechanisms). Part II covers updated terrestrial transport emissions standards and extends the review to aviation and shipping transportation standards.
The European Parliament adopted a voluntary standard for EU Green Bonds (EUGB) on 5 October 2023. The standard, the first of its kind globally, aligns with the EU Taxonomy framework that defines which activities are considered sustainable and enables investors to direct their money more confidently toward sustainable technologies and businesses
This Analyst Note focuses on the current landscape of sectoral emissions and the challenges posed to the decarbonization of aluminum production, and provides a discussion about emerging solutions.
In March 2023, the European Commission proposed regulation on Critical Raw Materials (CRM) and introduced the concept of Strategic Raw Materials (SRM). The objective of this proposed regulation is to ensure the availability of materials that are essential for the energy transition and digitalization of the European economy by securing the supply chain with third countries and ensuring minimum local production
In June 2023, the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) released their first two sustainability standards: IFRS S1 General requirements for Disclosure of Sustainability-related Financial Information, and IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures. The sustainability standard IFRS S2 builds on the recommendations made by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and it is designed to disclose climate-realted information to investors for the financial starting from 1 January 2024.
Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) is among the tools available for reaching net-zero emissions (NZE) and an important tool for the energy transition. The number of CCUS projects and their capacities have increased significantly globally in recent years. This analyst note captures recent developments in CCUS projects based on data available for 2023.
Building on our 2020 white paper on Carbon Interventions, this white paper updates and reviews Carbon Intervention Mechanisms (Emission Trading Systems, Carbon Taxes and Carbon Leakage Mechanisms) that are currently implemented in several countries.