Carbon Policy News

An appeals court in the Netherlands has overturned a 2021 ruling that compelled...

The UN-backed carbon credits under the new Article 6.4 mechanism could be issued very soon following Monday's approval at...

The California Air Resources Board Friday approved updates to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard that nearly double the 2025 carbon...

Singapore and carbon registries Verra and Gold Standard have released initial recommendations related to their development of a carbon...

The DEA announced Monday that it has received two applications from two companies to explore the potential for storing CO2...

A German climate research institute and state-owned bank have teamed up to propose a financial architecture to mobilise private capital...

The outgoing Biden administration will seek to ramp up the rate at which...

Côte d'Ivoire has completed the process for operationalising the country's national registry...

UN climate talks in the oil-rich nation of Azerbaijan got underway Monday with the aim of countries agreeing a new climate finance goal at...

Brazil has unveiled a new version of its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), outlining the country's climate commitments under the...

Standard-setting body Verra last month launched a new risk-based approach (RBA) to conducting project reviews, an approach it says...

The UN has offered delegates attending COP29 the opportunity to offset their travels by buying carbon credits...

Papua New Guinea prime minister Jame Marape has said he will not attend the COP29 climate talks starting today in Baku and expressed...

Latin American jurisdictional markets continue to advance under US-based standard Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) as Peru announced a...

Airlines could need 50-60 million carbon credits to cover their obligations for the first year, 2024, of the UN's Corsia aviation decarbonisation scheme, based on...

COP29 needs to make clear progress on at least three strands of the Paris Agreement's carbon markets, say project developers, or else billions of dollars of investment will remain in cold storage...

Deficiencies in many of the measures Canada is implementing to tackle climate change are hindering the North American country's...

Brazil's development bank (BNDES) has approved a record BRL 882 ($154.9 million) for conservation and reforestation projects...

For too long, climate action has been stuck between pledges and promises. Year after year, world leaders gather at COP, striving to balance...

New Zealand's domestic emissions reductions can substantially contribute to its second national determined contribution target for 2031-35...