Carbon Policy News

A high-level carbon offset quality initiative is due to unveil its first results at the end of the month...

EU power sector emissions jumped 27% on the month in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine...

The rate of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon rose to its highest level in at least seven years for the month of April...

Seven additional carbon projects are now open for public comments in the Verra emissions registry...

Swiss carbon registry the Gold Standard is committed to study over the next year how it can digitalise its standard documentation...

South Korean utility and energy firm SK E&S has teamed up with the government of East Timor to develop a carbon...

The insurance pool of forestry carbon credits held under California's cap-and-trade scheme does not fully cover the risk...

Papua New Guinea plans to issue detailed guidelines on REDD+ projects and lift the moratorium on new projects by 2023...

Annual forest loss slowed substantially in the nine-year period to 2018, compared with the 2000-2010 period, a report...

The Canadian environmental ministry has proposed removing the 90% of its forest on Crown-owned land from the forthcoming...

US emissions registry Verra has proposed to issue carbon units that represent future emission reductions...

An EU-wide consultation on how to certify which technologies should be recognised as removing carb...

Global battery metal production capacity next year will be enough to produce 14 million electric vehicles...

New Zealand's proposal to exclude exotic forests such as pinus radiata from its emissions trading scheme is "totally unrealistic"...

The government of New South Wales (NSW) in Australia is hoping to use carbon credit sales from the Emissions Reduction Fund...

An avoided deforestation project that has been subject to legal dispute is continuing to expand operations in Papua New Guinea...

An expert panel convened by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has recommended that the country's GX League...

The planned reform of the EU emissions trading system (ETS) could be watered down as MEPs...

A carbon standard based in Brazil has filed a new methodology for reducing emissions from rice fields...

The annual rate at which the world lost its forest cover in the tropics slowed 10% last year...