15th CCM week 2025. USA, Vermont, GIX, Australia, Latin America, Carbon Markets Union, Article 6 Japan, Chile and Singapore, Paraguay and Korea, Indonesia. Earth Day, NASA Science Wants You and music.
- Art Dam
- Apr 20
- 7 min read
Monday, 21 April 2025.
This week, we bring you major regulatory news, some of it surprising, advances in carbon markets in several countries, as well as unmissable events and tips!
🌍 Regulatory Highlights and Carbon Markets: 🇺🇸 Vermont Adopts Sustainable Guidelines to Protect Pensioners from Climate Risks🇺🇸 The Green Impact Exchange Receives SEC Approval 🇦🇺 Australia’s Nature Repair Market Gains Momentum 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪 Climate Action in Latin America 🇪🇺🇨🇳🇧🇷 Global Union for the Integration of Carbon Markets 🇯🇵🌏 Advances on Article 6: Consultative Group in Tokyo 🇨🇱🇸🇬 Chile and Singapore Formalize Climate Cooperation under Article 6 🇵🇾🇰🇷 Paraguay and Korea boost carbon market 🇮🇩 Updates from the Indonesian Carbon Exchange.
🎟️ Unmissable events: 🌍🌱♻️ 55th Earth Day – theme "Our Power, Our Planet" 💡 CFA Webinar – The Global Energy Transition: Investment Opportunities & Risks 🚀 ChangeNOW – Impact and innovation for a sustainable future 🇧🇷 Brazil Week 2025 New York – Highlights of Brazil on the international scene 🔬 I4C Innovate4Climate 2025 – Financial solutions for the climate 🌎 London Climate Action Week – Connecting global leaders for climate action
📚 Tips: 🚀📢🌎 NASA Science Wants You! – Be part of the scientific revolution! 📗🎓🇧🇷 Immersion in Sustainability IFRS: IFRS S1 and S2 – Get to know the new standards 🎶🌍 Playing For Change | Song Around The World – Music connecting the world
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CLIMATE GOVERNANCE
🇺🇸 Vermont Adopts Sustainable Guidelines to Protect Pensioners from Climate Risks.
The Vermont Pension Investment Commission (VPIC) recently updated its proxy voting guidelines to address systemic risks such as climate change and biodiversity loss. The changes reflect a desire to align investments with sustainable values by encouraging companies to disclose and address climate risks. The move has been praised by organizations such as the Sierra Club, which highlighted VPIC as an example of leadership among U.S. pension funds.
🇺🇸 The Green Impact Exchange (GIX) approved by the SEC.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently approved the creation of GIX, the first national securities exchange in the United States dedicated exclusively to environmental sustainability.
Founded in 2022 by former NYSE executives, GIX represents a significant step forward for investors and companies committed to climate risk management, sustainable finance, and transparency in ESG practices. The initiative seeks to redefine market standards by integrating environmental criteria directly into the listing and trading structure.
More than 150 companies have already expressed interest in listing their shares on the new exchange, committing to the sustainability standards established by GIX. With this regulatory approval, the exchange expects to begin operations in early 2026.
Click here for the SEC approval and here for the company’s press release.
🇦🇺Nature Repair Market (NRM) in Australia.
The NRM is an innovative and pioneering initiative in Australia, being the first voluntary market focused on biodiversity. Officially operational since 1 March 2025, the NRM was created to incentivise actions for environmental restoration and protection, allowing individuals and organisations to obtain and trade biodiversity certificates, complementing the country's carbon market.
With the definition of its first method, project developers can now generate and trade biodiversity certificates, expanding opportunities for financing environmental initiatives.
The market is administered by the Clean Energy Regulator and is supported by an independent Nature Remediation Committee, ensuring transparency and credibility in its operations.
Click here to learn more about the NRM and here to learn how to participate.
🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪Climate Action in Latin America, according to the OECD
This Data Explainer provides an overview of key advances in climate action in Latin American countries. The data is extracted from the Climate Actions and Policies Measurement Framework, developed by the International Programme for Action on Climate (IPAC), with information currently available for seven Latin American countries, the so-called LA7: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru.
Among the findings are the strong reliance of climate action on non-market-based instruments (nMBIs), a certain increase in fossil fuel subsidies post-pandemic, and great potential for emissions trading and decarbonization of the transport sector. Read more here.
CARBON CREDITS
🇪🇺🇨🇳🇧🇷Global Union for Carbon Market Integration.
Imagine a global coalition uniting the European Union, China, Brazil, California and other countries in the pursuit of an integrated carbon market. This initiative will be presented at COP30 and promises to boost environmental regulation and strengthen the green economy.
In recent weeks, we have seen significant progress on this topic, with movements in the European Union, BRICS, NDCs and Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Just reread our posts. The race to decarbonization is accelerating, and many countries do not want to be left out.
While large emitters face challenges in reducing carbon, the energy transition is already a reality for a significant number of countries. For many of them, the focus is now shifting to the valorization of their environmental assets, creating new economic and sustainable opportunities.
🇯🇵🌏Progress on Article 6: Second Consultative Group Meeting in Tokyo.
The A6IP Advisory Group held its first meeting on March 7-8, 2024, in Japan, bringing together 48 participants from different countries and organizations.
During the meeting, it was mentioned that as of November 2024, only 286 projects were using Article 6 bilaterally, highlighting the need to integrate operational frameworks. Currently, around 9,000 projects are under development under independent standards, highlighting the increasing demand for high-quality credits.
This group includes representatives from countries such as Australia, Bahamas, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, India, Indonesia, Norway, New Zealand, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand and the United Kingdom, as well as international organizations and institutes related to climate action and sustainability. Click here for the press release issued on April 18.
🇨🇱🇸🇬Chile and Singapore Formalize Cooperation under Article 6.
The agreement establishes a bilateral regulatory framework for the exchange of carbon credits, encouraging climate projects in Chile that can generate ITMOs (Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes) certified by both countries.
In addition to strengthening public-private cooperation in the creation of tradable carbon credits that Singapore can use to meet its climate goals, the pact also incorporates measures to guarantee environmental integrity, prevent double accounting and ensure transparency in carbon markets—a key factor for the effective functioning of Article 6.
This partnership between Chile and Singapore reinforces the potential of Article 6 as a catalyst for global climate action, while strengthening the governance of carbon markets and driving sustainable investments.
Click here for the press release from the Government of Chile.
🇵🇾🇰🇷 The Carbon Market Advances in Paraguay.
Paraguay is moving forward with the implementation of its carbon market, the law of which was enacted on October 13, 2023.
To attract climate investments and strengthen environmental regulation, the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES) launched a project in partnership with the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) to operationalize the national market.
The initiative, aligned with Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, establishes clear guidelines for the trading of credits, ensuring transparency and efficiency in the process.
The project is financed by the GGGI's Carbon Transaction Facility (CTF) and includes the creation of a Carbon Markets Directorate and a Carbon Credits Registry. Read more here.
🇮🇩 News from the Indonesian Carbon Exchange (IDXCarbon).
Since its launch on September 26, 2023, Carbon Exchange has registered 90 licensed users, with a total transaction volume of 614,454 tCO₂e and a value of IDR 37.09 billion.
The information is part of the monthly bulletin of the Board of Commissioners of Indonesia Financial Services Authority (OJK) addressing the resilience of Indonesia's financial sector, measures taken to strengthen the sector and ensure sustainable growth. The financial authority regularly addresses and provides transparency on the matter. Read the OJK bulletin here.
IDXCarbon is a carbon trading platform that uses blockchain technology, developed by the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX). The platform operates with two main mechanisms:
- Allowance Market: A "cap-and-trade" system where companies receive emission quotas and can trade credits if they exceed or save emissions.
- Offset Market: Allows companies to purchase carbon credits generated by climate mitigation projects to offset their emissions
EVENTS
🌍🌱♻️ April 22, 55th Earth Day, theme “Our Power, Our Planet”. Find an event near you by clicking here on the map.
📍🇫🇷 April 24-26, ChangeNOW in Paris, France.
📍🇺🇸🇧🇷 May 14, Brazil Week 2025 in New York, United States.
📍🇪🇸 10 - 12 June, I4C Innovate4Climate 2025, Seville, Spain.
📍🇬🇧 21-29 June 2025, London Climate Action Week in the UK.
OPPORTUNITIES (AND TIPS)
🚀📢🌎 NASA Science Wants You!
NASA’s citizen science projects allow anyone to contribute to research in Earth science, astrophysics, biology, and more. From storms to auroras, volunteers are helping explore the universe and improve life on Earth. Available in 18+ languages and open to everyone, projects require no special equipment—all you need is a smartphone or computer, curiosity, and a willingness to learn. Know someone who might be interested? Click here.
📗🎓🇧🇷Immersion in Sustainability IFRS: IFRS S1 and S2.
New book by Alexandre Furtado and Edison Fernandes, which explores the adoption of IFRS sustainability standards by Brazil. The work highlights how the country became the first in the world to incorporate these rules into companies' financial disclosures, aligning itself with the global sustainable investment movement. The authors address ESG concepts, sustainable finance and the impact of IFRS S1 and S2 standards on the transparency of corporate information. Launched in São Paulo, Brazil, with a prestigious audience, including Carbon Credit Markets, the 118-page book is available in physical and eBook format. You can check out more details here.
🎶🌍 Playing For Change | Song Around The World
Playing For Change is a certified B Corp organization founded to inspire and connect the world through music, believing that music can break down barriers and bring people together.
Their primary goal is to record and film musicians in their natural environments, combining their talents in innovative videos called “Songs Around The World.” This project led to the creation of the Playing For Change Band, a traveling ensemble of musicians met along the way, and the Playing For Change Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting music programs for children around the world.
Through these initiatives, PFC seeks to spread hope and inspiration globally. To learn more, visit. And here's the recording of the song When The Levee Breaks on 🎥 YouTube for a first experience.
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