Carbon Policy News

Petrobras has announced it will focus on expanding its clean energy business with plans to release an investment plan for the next...

Two lobby groups linked to a major global business organisation have called for a penalty system requiring companies that fail to meet...

Current climate pledges made by countries under the Paris Agreement for carbon dioxide removals (CDRs) are based on "unrealistic" expectations for land use, with...

Steve Zwick is an independent journalist who spent nearly two years in US-based carbon registry Verra's communications teams...

The government of New Zealand is seeking views on two proposes relating to an annual charge for forestry participants in the

India is targeting a price of at least $10 a tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) for the nation's planned...

Nature-based carbon finance schemes should look to include measures that protect wildlife, as the latter are...

Power producers in China will over the next two weeks receive their free emission allowances under the China emissions trading system...

The US government is offering more than $518 million in federal funding to support large-scale carbon storage projects...

Russia's registry of carbon units said it has hosted its first carbon credit transaction involving a foreign buyer, with a UAE-based financial firm...

All the market infrastructure for the EU's crediting mechanism for carbon dioxide removals (CDRs) will be ready by the time EU lawmakers decide ...

Agriculture-based carbon projects in India tend are failing to fairly share the proceeds...

Panama's Ministry of the Environment (MoE) has suspended all community forestry permits in two regions of the Central American country because...

A new version of a draft bill for Brazil's emissions trading system (ETS) will soon be published following negotiations between...

The US government has earmarked more than $58.5 million in federal funding for 11 pilot-scale projects to help develop a commercially viable...

The National Steering Committee for the Indian Carbon Market has approved a list of 10 sectors under the offset mechanism of the country's...

Japan has selected five new projects for its Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) programme in...

Malaysia's prime minister Anwar Ibrahim has unexpectedly announced a carbon tax in the Southeast Asian economy from the year...

US-based carbon registry Verra has opened a second public consultation on a revised draft methodology that aims to...

Carbon Streaming has lodged arbitration proceedings in a Canadian court against the operators of the Rimba Raya project in Indonesia...