Marton Kruppa
@martonkruppa.bsky.social
Carbon market reporter at Quantum Commodity Intelligence. Formerly @reuters, Point Carbon. Tweets my own, RT≠endorsement www.qcintel.com
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth. None of them through the Strait of Hormuz billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
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COPs were a backwater of diplomacy until 2007, after that they have gone mainstream: @alisterdoyle.bsky.social medium.com/@alisterdoyl...
Paris Agreement 10-year report card:“must try harder”
Ten years ago, U.N. Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon was in a strangely relaxed mood hours before the Paris climate agreement was struck
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Government participation lends credibility and certainty www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
COP30: Momentum grows behind carbon markets as a climate solution
Reading the text of the final deal at COP30, which was agreed on Saturday after more than two weeks of talks in Belém, it would be easy to miss the role of the carbon markets in the fight against clim...
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“Just like people feel empathy for Anna Karenina or Ned Stark despite knowing they are fictional characters, they can also feel aroused by virtual model” www.economist.com/internationa...
AI is upending the porn industry
Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils
economist.com
Challenges were likely not made easier by picking a company name that echoed Star Wars’ “Project Stardust” — the codename the bad guys in the Galactic Empire used for the Death Star www.politico.com/news/magazin...
The Strange and Totally Real Plan to Blot Out the Sun and Reverse Global Warming
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat. The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.
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A debate over carbon permanence – how long CO2 must stay stored to count towards offsetting emissions – is reshaping global carbon markets and could determine whether nature remains investable www.forbes.com/sites/felici...
New UN Carbon Market Rules Could Reshape How Investors Value Nature
New UN carbon market rules will influence how trillions in climate finance are valued, reshaping corporate strategies and the future of nature-based assets.
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Tropical Forest Forever Facility doesn’t pay the farmer not to cut; it finances the state’s political will to police itself. “The TFFF isn’t for the farmer; it’s for the finance minister” www.forestsnews.org/152894/the-u...
The $4 Misunderstanding: Why the TFFF isn't only about the money
As the global community gears up for COP30 in Belém, all eyes are on the host’s flagship proposal: the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) – a Brazilian-led initiative that could redefine climate ...
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Voluntary carbon market contribution claims are not (yet) very attractive for buyers. They look too much like charity - for which funds are limited: report www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Ensuring environmental integrity of voluntary carbon market claims: understanding and framing VCM contribution claims
The notion of Contribution claims in voluntary carbon markets (VCM) is a relatively novel concept that builds on but differs materially from existing offsetting claims by veering away from the elem...
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“It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. All of these predictions made by the UN and many others, often for bad reasons, were wrong”: Trump www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Trump tells UN that climate change is a 'con job'
President Donald Trump dismissed climate change as “the greatest con job” in the world during his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, doubling down on his skepticism of global environmental initiatives and multilateral institutions.
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Without UN climate cooperation, we were heading for +5C of heating – an impossible future. Today we are closer to +3 degrees. Still too high – but bending the curve. Later this year we will see how much closer the next round of plans gets us to +1.5: UNFCCC chief unfccc.int/news/un-clim...
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EU is considering measures including a system under which CBAM goods are given a fixed CO2 emissions value per country or per company rather than calculating specific emissions per shipment ca.news.yahoo.com/eu-drafting-...
EU drafting plans to prevent circumvention of carbon border tariff
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission will propose measures this year to prevent countries from dodging its carbon border tariff, a Commission spokesperson said, as some in Brussels fear Chinese...
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Brazil wants to use the COP30 presidency to push for a different international carbon pricing framework — one based on multilateral agreement, rather than with the EU as the de facto sole standard-setter #CBAM www.ft.com/content/21b8...
Talk of a global carbon pricing scheme grows louder ahead of COP30
Brazil wants to use the presidency to push for an international framework
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AI's per-prompt energy impact is equivalent to watching TV for less than 9 seconds. Google says that energy and total carbon footprint of the median Gemini Apps text prompt dropped by 33x and 44x, respectively over the past 12 months cloud.google.com/blog/product...
Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference | Google Cloud Blog
A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.
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“Climate change is a challenge – not a catastrophe": US energy secretary Chris Wright www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Scientists slam Trump administration climate report as a ‘farce’ full of misinformation
Experts say the report being used to justify the mass rollback of climate regulations has many claims based on long-debunked research
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Few centrists openly question the fundamental importance of fighting climate change, as many on the hard right do. But they are trimming their sails regardless—quite dramatically so, in Friedrich Merz’s case www.economist.com/briefing/202...
The humbling of green Europe
Europe’s hard right is pushing the continent’s climate consensus hard. The response so far is tepid
economist.com
Energy transition is considerably more advanced than its detractors would like us to believe: Liebreich about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset - Part I | BloombergNEF
As the tide on clean energy turns, Michael Liebreich makes a strong case for a pragmatic climate reset.
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If AI is effectively applied in key impact areas - power, food, and mobility - the estimated emissions reductions “would outweigh increases from global power consumption of data centres and AI”: paper www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...
New study finds AI could reduce global emissions annually by 3.2 to 5.4 billion tonnes of carbon-dioxide-equivalent by 2035 - Grantham Research Institute on climate change and the environment
AI advancements in power, transport and food consumption could reduce global emissions of greenhouse gases by 3.2 to 5.4 billion tonnes of carbon-dioxide-equivalent annually by 2035, according to new ...
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ETS2 prices will be felt in transport fuel costs especially in those countries where fuel taxes are low, such as Hungary, Poland, Spain, Germany and Italy. In these countries petrol and diesel prices are expected to rise between 11-14% in 2027 and 17-22% in 2030 as a result of the ETS2: Veyt
While the EU’s road transport and heating emissions nudged down only 2% over the past 10 years, the cap of the bloc’s upcoming ETS2 is designed to force down emissions by 69% over the market's first 10 years: Veyt
Hungarian oil group MOL is one of 44 oil and gas producers that the EU Commission requires to contribute to achieving the EU target of 50 million tonnes of annual CO2 injection capacity into geological CO2 storage sites by 2030. MOL needs to achieve 1.56m climate.ec.europa.eu/document/dow...
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"California punishes carbon use by adopting impossible caps on the amount of carbon businesses may use, all but forcing businesses to pay large sums to “trade” carbon credits to meet California’s radical requirements": White House www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Protecting American Energy From State Overreach
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose.
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Fewer trees hugged, more data and coherent solutions: ex-HSBC Stuart Kirk www.ft.com/content/9b9c...
Do financiers believe in sustainability or not?
They are either being weak or hypocritical in the face of the current backlash
ft.com
Draft @sciencebasedtargets.org standard revision means that SBTi members in 2030 could need around 2m tonnes of CDRs. It's not a game changing amount. But it's not nothing. It's roughly equivalent to having another Frontier or two enter the market: Isometric's Lukas May isometric.com/writing-arti...
SBTi’s Net-Zero Standard 2.0: What it means for Carbon Dioxide Removal
Interim targets could accelerate CDR demand and expand the buyer pool
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Amazon today launched a service offering partner companies the possibility to invest in "science-based carbon credits" sourced from 'reducing deforestation', 'restoring forests' and 'technological carbon removal' projects www.aboutamazon.com/news/sustain...
Amazon launches a carbon credit service, enabling access to high-quality credits for qualified companies
Available through the Sustainability Exchange, this service will offer science-based carbon credits to suppliers, business customers, and Climate Pledge signatories.
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"We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion": US EPA head Lee Zeldin www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
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Logs are piled high in the cleared land which stretches more than 13km through the rainforest into Belém www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summit
The infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
bbc.com
Using a multitude of AI models in concert @cuspai.bsky.social is looking to generate gigantic, sponge-like molecules called ‘metal-organic frameworks’, or MOFs, that can remove CO2 from the air cleanly and cheaply via the @economist.com economist.com/science-and-...
AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
Better batteries, cleaner bioplastics and more powerful semiconductors await
economist.com
Silence risks damaging trust and could confuse consumers who have watched companies go from making frequent and enthusiastic pledges and disclosures to saying very little via @cocojournalist.bsky.social @oliviarudgard.bsky.social #greenwashing #greenhushing www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s Return Prompts Companies to Stifle Climate Talk With ‘Greenhushing’
Businesses that used to tout carbon-cutting are switching their message: “This isn’t a good time to put a red flag in front of the bull.”
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Magnitude of energy-transition costs = 5% a year of global GDP between now and 2050. If global South countries are largely exempted from these financial burdens, global North countries would have to spend 10% of annual GDP—for the US = >3X of defense spending www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Troubled Energy Transition
How to find a pragmatic path forward.
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At the moment, almost half the population of the developing world—three billion people—annually uses less electricity per capita than the average American refrigerator does: Daniel Yergin www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Troubled Energy Transition
How to find a pragmatic path forward.
foreignaffairs.com