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The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement opens a strategic opportunity for American businesses and states to advocate for carbon markets and climate finance at COP30, but experts described a murky path forward on Wednesday.

There is a time and place for protests and pickets, but the California regulator is currently keeping its head down and getting on with the job, said one of its officers at a conference on Wednesday.

US developers must consider emerging alternatives to monetise smaller carbon credit projects to get ahead of an expected loss of federal support, panellists at the Climate Action Reserve’s North American Carbon World (NACW) conference said on Wednesday.

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The state announced on Wednesday draft regulations mandating reporting of GHGs, which would be a forerunner to New York’s Cap-and-Invest programme, known as NYCI.

States participating in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic power sector cap-and-trade scheme RGGI intend to complete the ongoing Third Program Review by the end of 2025, North American Carbon World participants heard Wednesday.

A Japanese megabank has joined a Zurich-headquartered carbon removal (CDR) buyers club as a major offtaker, the coalition announced Thursday.

The burgeoning supply of Mexican forest carbon credits hasn’t been able to keep up with demand, voluntary carbon market players told conference attendees, as they pointed to challenges with verification and existing methodologies.

Mexico will finally operationalise its emissions trading system (ETS) by the end of the year and include offsets, an expert told attendees of North American Carbon World on Wednesday.

The New Zealand Forest Service has released more details on exotic forestry restrictions in the emissions trading scheme (ETS), which are expected to come into force by October.  

The number of compliance-eligible offsets issued by the California ARB over the last two weeks dropped precipitously compared to the previous timeframe, as no newly-distributed units were marked with direct environmental benefits to the state (DEBs), data published by the state regulator on Wednesday showed.

The grid isn’t failing — it’s being redefined by people using rooftop solar, batteries and EVs. Networks, policymakers, and planners need to pay attention.

The post A quiet shift: The grid is being redefined by household consumers who no longer need it full time appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The operators of a 225-year-old canal warn of an "urgent" water shortage without imminent rainfall.

A US state forest service is launching a programme to help landowners make their forests more resilient and support practices for improving carbon management.

New global data show wind and solar doing most of work cutting emissions, and there is no nuclear renaissance. Meanwhile, Labor disappoints on climate.

The post Election Watch: No nuke comeback as renewables on a global tear: Plus, Labor’s budget climate resilience fail appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A new report has outlined a pathway for scaling regenerative agriculture in Brazil’s Cerrado region, but technical and financial capacity gaps pose significant hurdles to widespread adoption.

An Argentine project has this month been listed with the Climate Action Reserve (CAR) registry, according to government reports on Tuesday.

The European Commission on Wednesday confirmed its intention to put forward draft legislation this year to certify permanent carbon removals from direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), and biochar.

The SBTi may have heightened confusion in the carbon removal (CDR) sector following the release of a draft update to its flagship corporate climate standard, which will pit the practicalities of company decision-making against the nascent industry’s struggle to scale, experts told a webinar on Wednesday.

The European Union’s ambitious Nature Restoration Law (NRL) has the potential to reverse decades of marine biodiversity loss, but a WWF report released Wednesday warned that without proper enforcement, it risks becoming another case of "paper parks" without effective conservation measures.