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The European Union’s new climate policies are unlikely to have a significant near-term impact on the bloc's carbon market, but long-term uncertainties remain, analysts have told Carbon Pulse.

Tech giant Apple has been threatened with class action lawsuit in the US over allegations that it misled consumers by marketing its smartwatch as carbon neutral through the use of “ineffective and redundant” offsets.

Trial announced as Keir Starmer arrives in Washington to meet Donald Trump, a longtime critic of windfarms

Offshore windfarms are to be painted black in an effort to reduce the number of birds that die after flying into them.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has launched a four-year trial to paint the wind turbines after officials raised concerns that the government’s plan to increase turbine numbers in the North Sea could spell danger for seabirds. Limited research has been conducted on the number of birds killed this way, but estimates range from four to 18 per turbine per year.

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Some 73% of organisations are planning to offset their hard-to-abate emissions using carbon credits, according to a survey of 300 UK-based senior executives across multiple sectors, which also found over 90% of respondents are confident their organisation will meet net zero.

Germany is set to cover nearly half of its energy needs with electricity by 2050, but emissions cuts will fall short of the country’s 2045 net zero goal, according to a report released Thursday.

Cookstove carbon credits from a large clean cooking programme in Africa will be verified and made available for CORSIA Phase 1 by the end of the third quarter of the year, said the head of the project developer, paving the way for millions of eligible units to come on to the market per year.

A BC nonprofit has launched a call for projects to apply for C$3 million ($2 mln) in available funding aimed at developing early-stage carbon dioxide removal (CDR) initiatives.

The pea-sized brain was found in the skull of a 20-year-old man killed in the volcanic eruption.

The European Environment Agency (EEA) has said more action is needed to control and reduce methane emissions across Europe and globally, in a briefing published on Thursday.

An AI-focused research centre, established by a subsidiary of one of Japan’s largest insurers, and a nature data company have announced a partnership on a biodiversity risk product.

Cuba’s third Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) has specified that it will use Article 6 cooperative approaches to secure climate finance, helping it to achieve conditional Paris Agreement goals.

Frontier has facilitated offtake agreements worth $30.6 million for an electrochemical direct air capture (DAC) developer to remove 47,000 tons of CO2 between 2027 and 2030, the buyers coalition announced Thursday.

Energy company Drax Global could roll back investment in its flagship bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant in the UK, it said Thursday.

Bloomberg and benchmark provider General Index (GX) have expanded their strategic collaboration to enhance access to voluntary carbon market (VCM) price data on the Bloomberg Terminal, the companies announced on Thursday.

A European Commission proposal to delay climate reporting and due diligence obligations on companies operating in Europe is facing resistance in Parliament where centrist and left-wing lawmakers have warned against attempts to unravel the Green Deal.

Seeds of 177 species from across Africa to be stored in Norway to preserve crop diversity in case of disaster

More than 100,000 seeds from across Africa have been deposited in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, the world’s repository for specimens intended to preserve crop diversity in the event of disaster.

Among the latest additions are seeds critical to building climate resilience, such as the tree Faidherbia albida, which turns nitrogen into ammonia and nitrates, and Cordia africana, the Sudan teak, a tree renowned for its strength and durability.

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A startup backed by a US oil major and global industrial claims that the pongamia tree native to the subtropics can provide feedstock both for sustainable aviation fuel and protein — thereby resolving the food versus fuel land debate, while also generating carbon credits.

A carbon removal (CDR) registry and certification standard has introduced a new verification model and cost-saving measures, including adjustments to its auditing and digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) processes.

Inquiry set up by academics and campaigners to rival ‘too limited’ government-established commission

A “people’s commission” on the future of the water industry will travel across England and Wales taking evidence from the public and environmental campaign groups fighting sewage pollution.

Academics and environmental campaigners who were central to exposing the routine dumping of raw sewage into rivers by water companies have set up the inquiry to rival the government-established independent commission.

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The Philippines this week launched an action plan to scale up the production of high-quality blue carbon from mangroves and seagrasses, as the archipelagic nation looks to develop a national roadmap for leveraging marine resources to support climate goals.