Carbon Policy News

Japan has issued new guidance for participation in its Joint Crediting Mechanism programme that will now allow...

The International Civil Aviation Organization Council has updated a number of aviation environmental standards, including one to aimed at…

Climate policies to cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide are missing in some of the big emitting countries, such as…

Global carbon dioxide emissions fell by 1% year-on-year in February due to wet weather in Brazil...

Australian government reaches deal with Greens on key climate bill, albeit with improvements such as a...

The EU's recently-announced Net Zero Industry Act has failed to provide sufficient support for carbon storage and carbon removal projects...

The carbon removals industry has grown fast in the past three years and is beginning to prove that it can remove billions...

China, Saudi Arabia and Switzerland lobbied strongly for carbon storage or removal technologies in talks held ahead of a highly-publicised summary report...

East Africa has the potential to increase emissions reductions fivefold between now and 2025 from projects registered...

Some VCM participants are increasingly coming to the conclusion that new proposed industry standards will not be enough...

The UN's main aviation body has extended by a week the deadline for applications for carbon reduction schemes to apply to supply carbon credits...

The European Commission on Wednesday has proposed that companies using offsets..

If the current policy drive for energy security becomes entrenched worldwide the achievement...

China and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have both nominated their Designated National Authority...

A new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed this week by the International Maritime Organization...

Bunge, Cargill, CHS and Olam are likely to be the worst affected among traders of soybean and other related commodities if the EU decides...

South Korea has readjusted how it plans to meet its Nationally Determined Contribution under the Paris Agreement, allowing industry to…

The final versions of tools that aim to align much of the knowledge gained under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism with the…

US-based registry Verra has permanently inactivated a key rice methane methodology because of additionality...

The UN's climate science panel on Monday warned policymakers that the window is rapidly narrowing on making the carbon cuts required to avoid runaway climate change...