Carbon Policy News

A spike in deforestation rates has been detected around palm mills and plots, which is likely to have an impact on palm oil companies...

Canada's climate policies are insufficient but are an improvement from a previous assessment, analyst group Climate Action Tracker...

A huge swath of basalt seabed area to the north of Germany has the potential to store carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) equivalent to the ...

Community engagement is a vital but often neglected component in the successful development of marine carbon dioxide removal...

The Middle Eastern state of Oman has published a draft carbon markets policy framework for public consultation, according to officials...

The UN's lead agency on international development said it is seeking a consultancy firm to help Cameroon design a domestic carbon...

The EU's cap-and-trade scheme, the world's first and to-date largest carbon market, has had a 'significant effect' on reducing carbon dioxide...

A Malaysian government agency is seeking qualified applicants to help develop the country's new forest carbon offset standard this year and next...

Sweden has announced a tender setting aside SEK 36 billon ($3.5 billion) for grants supporting bioenergy with carbon and capture (BECCS) ...

An assessment of Vanuatu's reference level deforestation rate has been broadly accepted by the UN's avoided deforestation programme...

US-based scientific organisations and environmental groups have called on US legislative leaders to help provide funding...

Suriname is making 1.5 million carbon reduction units available for sale from a first tranche of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation...

The Brazilian government has launched what it calls a 'Pact for Ecological Transformation', uniting the executive, legislative...

New Zealand's carbon market should encourage the conversion of sheep and beef farms to native forests instead of the current practice of pine...

The Democratic Republic of Congo has backed off from opening its vast peatland areas up for oil exploitation, according to...

A Brazilian logistics company has launched a new carbon offset service to support clients' decarbonisation efforts for certain...

Japan's government has picked carbon project developer Green Carbon for a large-scale demonstration project...

Majority of people in Germany reject the country's relatively new, domestic carbon pricing system that covers the road transport...

Sweden and Zambia signed a memorandum of understanding to enter into bilateral cooperation under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement...

The government of Guyana is raising the proportion allocated to Amerindian indigenous groups of proceeds from the sale of its...