Carbon Policy News

The Kingdom of Bhutan, the world's first net-negative carbon country, has presented the first draft of its Carbon Markets Policy Framework...

UN aviation agency ICAO has approved Verra, Gold Standard, Global Carbon Council and Climate Action Reserve to supply offsets to...

Papua New Guinea is set to lift a more than two-year old moratorium on new carbon projects after the country's highest political authority...

Australia will finalise the forestry-based Environmental Plantings method by the end of 2024 and is looking to release the final drafts...

Japan has added four carbon projects to its Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM), bringing the total number of listings

The US government is seeking public input on how federal finding can best be deployed to support direct air capture projects in scaling up...

The emergence of a new UN-backed carbon crediting mechanism and its registry will unlikely lead to the disappearance of VCM registries...

Forestry degradation in the Amazon reached a 15-year record high in September amid a wave of forestry fires...

Australia's emissions compliance scheme, the Safeguard Mechanism, is not running as intended and the local carbon credit scheme...

Australian regulators warned companies to start working on strategy to publish their mandatory climate-related disclosures...

The head of Australia's Climate Change Authority has reiterated the key role of carbon markets in emissions mitigation against a background of...

Taiwan's Ministry of Environment has approved two new nature-based carbon sequestration methodologies for projects that can...

The Brazilian state of Pará has formally applied to generate jurisdictional carbon credits against the protection of its forests...

A UN report has concluded that the combined impact of current national climate plans would cut global greenhouse gas emissions by just 2.6% from 2019 levels...

Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) companies and lobby groups have on Monday called on the EU's executive arm to develop a CDR strategy...

The UK government's main advisory body on climate change has recommended the country to continue to refrain from using 'international...

Kenya-based cleaner cookstoves manufacturer and project developer Burn has secured $15 million in investment from the European...

Carbon registry Gold Standard is looking for up to six projects to participate in a two-year pilot phase to test its draft Nature-based Solutions...

An international meeting in London could impact the future of marine carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods...

The African nation of Sierra Leone is the latest to have awarded a letter of authorisation (LoA) to a carbon project developer active...