U.N. panel adopts rules to standardise world’s biggest offset market - News - Point Carbon

The Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism has adopted rules to standardise the offset market in a bid to incentivise the private sector to invest in the world’s poorest countries, the U.N. panel said Friday.

U.N. agency nudges up CER supply outlook - News - Point Carbon

UNEP Risoe on Friday raised its Certified Emission Reduction (CER) supply estimate by 1 million CERs, the fourth consecutive monthly increase after February chalked up issuance of a solid 24.7 million U.N. credits.

China mulls forestry credits in ETS: official - News - Point Carbon

China is looking at ways to include forest carbon projects in its planned emissions trading scheme (ETS), according to a senior official, a move which would boost supply of lower-cost offsets for the country’s biggest emitters.