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A US-based company on Tuesday announced a new blockchain-based marketplace for credits sourced from carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technology.

Even low doses of airborne benzene raise the risk of a variety of cancers, including lymphomas and leukemia

Using a gas stove can raise indoor concentrations of benzene, a cancer-linked chemical, to above what’s found in secondhand smoking or even beyond levels found next to oil and gas facilities, a new study has found.

The research, which measured benzene levels in 87 homes in California and Colorado, found that gas and propane stoves frequently emitted benzene at rates well above healthy benchmarks set by the World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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Washington state’s decision to only offer a fraction of its Allowance Price Containment Reserve (APCR) allowances at the mechanism's first sale in August will help maintain environmental integrity and provide compliance assurance in the cap-and-trade scheme, though an alternative process could better achieve these outcomes, experts told Carbon Pulse.

Over the past three years, Earth’s climate system has accumulated an average of 11 Hiroshima bombs’ worth of excess energy per second. And it’s showing in the current surge in ocean temperature. Steve Turton, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography, CQUniversity Australia Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A business group representing Brazil's industrial sector presented a plan to the federal government on Tuesday for implementing a national cap-and-trade programme that could add 5% to the country's GDP, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s administration reportedly is getting closer to introducing its own proposal for a regulated carbon market.

Businesses are increasingly aiming to incorporate Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) into their climate plans to fulfil their climate and nature commitments. Jennicca Gordon of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance outlines how they can ensure the integrity of the credits they purchase and communicate their efforts effectively.

France will host an international summit later this week aiming to forge consensus on how to reshape the finance agenda, discussing the easing of debt burdens, new international taxes, and how best to channel greater flows to developing economies to speed the energy transition and help them to deal with the impacts of climate change.

Gucci has dropped its claim of becoming ‘entirely carbon neutral’ on its website alongside its policy of buying voluntary carbon credits amid a backlash against misleading environmental claims.

Eni has dismissed concerns of overcrediting at a REDD avoided deforestation project in Zambia in a robust response to an investigation by Italy's publicly-owned television broadcaster.

Ukraine's deputy minister for energy has underlined that the country will keep its commitment to phase out coal by 2035 and can become a European clean energy hub in spite of the war raging within its borders, speaking at a side event ahead of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in London this week.

German-headquartered European Energy Exchange (EEX) is set to acquire Nasdaq's European power trading and clearing business, which includes EU emissions trading operations, the companies announced Tuesday.

A UAE-based mangrove reforestation firm has announced a strategic partnership with a Saudi company to restore at least 5,000 hectares of mangrove forests in Saudi Arabia over the next three years.

The former boss of a Canadian-based voluntary carbon credit aggregator has been reappointed as the company's head after the new president and CEO stepped down just three weeks into the job.

The European Commission has abandoned the idea of creating a new EU Sovereignty Fund in favour of setting up a platform to support the bloc's leadership on critical technologies using only existing cash sources, the executive body announced on Tuesday.

Thinktank suggests projects could deliver one-fifth of savings needed from farming, but agriculture experts cast doubt on idea

Rewetting about half of England’s lowland peat would be enough to deliver a fifth of the greenhouse gas emissions savings needed from the country’s farming by 2030, research suggests.

Rewetting peat would also help restore habitats for birds, wildlife and plant species. But farming experts strongly dispute the potential for such projects.

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RGGI Allowance (RGA) values languished through a narrow range as a lack of momentum pervaded the Northeast US power sector carbon market over the last five days.

The global tennis tour organisation, ATP, has launched an app which will allow professionals to track and then offset their travel emissions by purchasing carbon credits.

Governments need to represent us, not fossil-fuel profiteers. We need plans to phase out fossil fuel production and emissions

Canada is on fire from coast to coast to coast. Thousands have been evacuated, millions exposed to air pollution, New York a doom orange and even the titans of Wall Street choking.

Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, back-to-back cyclones in the Pacific islands and droughts in Africa haven’t been enough to create a tipping point for action. Now that climate impacts have hit the economic capital of western power, will it spur governments in the global north to get serious?

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EU environment ministers reached an agreement on Tuesday on the proposal for a nature restoration law, moving ahead of the divided European Parliament in the bloc's parallel lawmaking process.

Average CO2 emissions of new cars and vans in Europe dropped for a third consecutive year in 2022, according to provisional data published Tuesday, with pure EVs or hybrids representing nearly one in four car registrations.