Greetings NCEC members, 

Please find attached our draft agenda for the 2025 New Carbon Economy Consortium Annual Meeting from 29th June- 1st July. Speaker slots are full. Please visit the New Carbon Economy Consortium events page HERE for our 2025 NCEC Annual Meeting details! Registration can be found at the bottom of the previously linked page. Please reach out if you have any questions or need help with registration. Hybrid attendee options are available as in person registration has now closed. 

If you are attending the 2025 NCEC Annual Meeting in person, we encourage you to stick around and attend The Exeter Climate Forum 2 July- 4 July 2025 hosted by the University of Exeter and the Met Office. More info HERE. NCEC member attendees may register for the subsidized rate as NCEC. Please reach out to krista.obrien@asu.edu for more information.

Additionally, if you will be on site for the meeting, please find the Exeter Community Events page linked here: https://exeterclimateforum.com/community-events/

Updates for this month:  

• World Bank releases new State and Trends of Carbon Pricing Report. 

• CarbonBrief: Why the global area for regrowing trees is 71% smaller than thought.

• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scope 2 Technical Working Group Progress Update: improving how usage is reflected in inventories and by introducing a new way to recognize the broader climate benefits of clean energy.  

• Fair Carbon webinar: Integrating Blue Carbon Ecosystems into National Climate Policies. June 26th. 

• A new study out of Canada charts how to assess the national blue carbon capacity of kelp. 

• Ecosystem Marketplace dropped its annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market Report. You can view the high level summary here. 

• Carbon Direct releases a new report on Criteria for High-Quality Environmental Attribute Certificates in the Concrete and Steel Sectors. This new report defines key quality criteria, outlines environmental attribute certificates (EACs) for concrete and steel, and supports market growth with environmental rigor. 

• ASU is now Engineering low-carbon building materials at the Center for Carbon Efficient and Advanced Manufacturing of Materials and Structures. (CAMMS). 

Reminders:

• The NCEC LinkedIn has also launched! Please follow along and invite your colleagues to follow along as well! 

We look forward to continuing the critical work to develop a new carbon economy.  

Please reach out if you’d like to add any updates for next month or if you’d like to be featured as the NCEC monthly profile!