Carbon Policy News

The COP27 conference to be held at the end of the year in Egypt will be "another important milestone in...

US energy giant ExxonMobil announced on Tuesday it will cut its greenhouse gas emissions...

Electricity will have to make up 60% of China's energy use by 2060 if the country is to meet its carbon...

A total of eight countries or regional entities have pledged to adjust carbon credits generated on their territory following the COP26 conference...

Dutch activist Mileudefensie, which won a landmark case against Royal Dutch Shell last year...

Car sales in China last year rose for the first time since 2017 with sales of new energy vehicles (NEV)...

Vietnam has published plans to launch a domestic carbon trading scheme and carbon exchange towards the end of the decade...

The chemical recycling of plastic waste could soon earn voluntary carbon credits under a proposed...

Global CO2 emissions rose 5.1% month-on-month in November to their highest level in nine months with higher energy consumption...

The share of electric vehicles (EVs) in total US vehicle sales is likely to double from around 4% in 2021 to 8% in 2022...

The International Energy Agency has proposed to make all its data and analysis freely available following calls from academics late last year...

Controversial plans from the European Commission to label investment in gas and nuclear power as...

Carbon border adjustment schemes such as the one proposed by the European Union are likely to have a small measurable impact on emissions and suffer from multiple constraints...

Fires burned through an estimated 29.2 million hectares of forests and savannah in December, the third highest monthly total in 2021...

European gas futures tumbled nearly 20% on Thursday, wiping out a week's worth of...

US registry Verra published Tuesday a new draft methodology for assessing carbon leakage from afforestation and reforestation...

German carbon consultancy Perspectives and Swiss project developer South Pole have started working on a new methodology to create carbon offsets from green hydrogen...

The price of EU allowances dropped €10/mtCO2e on Friday on profit-taking before the expiry of the front-month...

US registry Verra has started screening buyers of voluntary offsets associated with cryptocurrencies...

The European Commission (EC) has outlined the next stages of its climate strategy, proposing the...