Carbon Policy News

The UN-appointed panel that sets rules for the Paris Agreement's Article 6.4 carbon market has deferred two major decisions on methodologies, and removals...

A group of US senators on Thursday introduced new legislation to impose a fee on carbon-intensive products imported from countries...

The US needs to take "additional, drastic emissions reductions measures" if it is to meet domestic climate goals or put…

One of the global meta-standards aimed at improving the integrity of the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has kicked off its review process...

Higher energy prices over the past two years have significantly reduced the cost of achieving net zero, but the remaining...

Kenya-based developers of carbon reduction projects that yield offset credits are asking the country's environment ministry...

Pakistan has kicked off a five-year programme designed to help prepare the Asian country for…

The term 'soil carbon sequestration' is often used "misleadingly" resulting in the "perpetuation of biased conclusions and…

Developers of biochar projects in Europe are hoping that emerging research showing that the product is indeed permanent...

The main association of Brazilian nature-based project developers has published a code of best practice for interacting with Indigenous...

Climate change risk is now the number one concern globally among both risk experts and the general public...

Singapore-based exchange Climate Impact X (CIX) is seeking feedback on the possibility of using carbon markets to finance the phasing out of coal-fired power plants...

Japan and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Monday, paving the way for the latter to become the...

The 'Three Basins Summit' organised last week in Brazzaville, Congo, failed to deliver major advances in the fight against...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has postponed a key decision on future payments against deforestation at a meeting held...

Scaling up carbon market development in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region will require legal and regulatory clarity and...

The European Union has signed off on a roadmap to implement its forest conservation cooperation agreement with the Republic of Congo...

The US government is committing $36 million in funding to accelerate the development of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR)...

US-based marketplace Carbon Direct has published the first "sustainable biomass" guide for carbon dioxide removal...

An Indonesian NGO, Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago, has sued the country's government for failing to pass a bill on...