Carbon Policy News

Norway has offered six companies exploration licences to store CO2 in four different areas of the Norwegian part of the North Sea...

The largest forest owners' association in France has created a scheme allowing wine producers to turn struggling vineyards into...

Brazil's Federal Police is mulling whether to launch fresh inquiries into the takeover of public land by several REDD+ projects in the Amazon...

US-based carbon registry Verra has signed an agreement with a Malaysian government agency to support the alignment of forest carbon initiatives in Malaysia with the former's...

A large wildfire has affected an improved forest management (IFM) carbon offset project located in the US state of...

Equitable Earth, an initiative to work with indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) to develop a new voluntary carbon market...

South Korea has disclosed more carbon projects to receive government support this year and...

Non profit Rainforest Foundation UK has published a set of simplified guidelines aimed at populations covered by REDD+ projects...

Forest areas in Mozambique covered by the World Bank's main scheme to finance avoided deforestation activities have...

Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney has called on G20 countries to follow the US's recent "groundbreaking steps" and build globally...

Thailand's government has approved a draft document that would update the Southeast Asian country's cooperation agreement with...

EU member states on Monday said they have adopted their position on the EU's main anti-greenwashing law, taking a less stringent approach than proposals...

Switzerland-based registry Gold Standard publicly opposed the use of carbon credits by companies to achieve their scope 3 emissions reduction targets..

A co-operation agreement on the Paris Agreement's Article 6 carbon credits is imminent between Switzerland and Kenya...

Developers of nature-based carbon projects have called on the EU Commission to favour financing of forestry schemes when it finetunes rules for...

A US government laboratory has issued guidelines for measuring methane emissions from marginally producing oil and natural gas wells.

A US setter of standards for accounting principles has this week has decided that buyers of carbon credits...

Carbon prices in the EU's cap-and-trade system could nearly double over the next four years to levels that will make it profitable for European...

The World Bank and civil society outreach organisation Solidaridad this week agreed funding for a $4 million project to share more widely the benefits stemming from avoided deforestation...

New Zealand's government has outlined its plans to grow the country's forestry sector, and has cancelled annual service charges for...