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A Milan-based climate tech firm has offered up a small batch of ocean-based carbon removal credits at $680 per tonne via a blockchain marketplace.

EU carbon analysts struggle to see a political avenue for delaying the introduction of the new ETS2 emissions trading system, despite rising fears across several EU member states about the impact of the consumer-facing pricing mechanism.

A US-based dairy products manufacturer announced a deal Tuesday to purchase a batch of first-of-its-kind methane avoidance credits from an upstart project developer dedicated to diverting food waste from landfills.

A Copenhagen-based agtech firm announced Tuesday it has launched a transparency initiative aimed at boosting confidence in the voluntary soil carbon credit market.

While foreign countries may accept international credits to achieve their climate targets under the Paris Agreement, the EU is unlikely to consider allowing carbon removal (CDR) units for compliance under its Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) until the mid-2030s, according to an expert consultant.

As temperatures rise and countries back off their decarbonization efforts, we must confront a reality central banks can’t correct

Inflation is, at base, a tax on consumption – and it hits the poor the hardest, since they consume more of their incomes and the rich consume less.

That’s one reason for concern over Donald Trump’s tariffs, which will disproportionately affect the poor. When the 90-day pause on the tariffs expires, it is reasonable to expect prices to rise, and by a lot.

Mark Blyth is a political economist and professor at Brown University. Nicolò Fraccaroli is a visiting scholar at Brown University.

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White-faced darters transported to South Solway Mosses as hotter summers dry out its bog pool breeding sites

With its chalk-white face and bright flame-coloured markings, the white-faced darter dragonfly is a distinctive sight as it flutters around England’s peat bogs.

The rare dragonfly, which breeds in mossy pools, is at threat of local extinction, but now conservationists are trying to end its population crash by introducing it into a remote corner of Cumbria.

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European carbon prices started the week sharply lower, gapping down from last Thursday's closing level, as the market responded to news reports over the weekend casting doubt on the tenure of US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell, while US-Chinese trade talks appeared to be bogging down amid lack of communication.

A major Indigenous group in the Brazilian Amazon has advanced the collection of critical data within their territories, which "as a first step" must be integrated into the nascent biodiversity credit markets, its monitoring manager told Carbon Pulse.

South Korea is nowhere close to meeting its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) without doubling its current yearly emissions reductions or the heavy use of international offsets, a paper from two think tanks has warned.

The last of 75 turbines has been installed at the biggest wind project yet built in South Australia which will help edge the state closer to 100 pct net renewables.

The post Final turbine installed at largest wind project in state edging closer to 100 pct net renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Three out of Australia's four aluminium smelters could risk closure if Australia adopts nuclear power, reducing energy supplied to industry.

The post Commitment to nuclear power could kill off most of Australia’s aluminium industry, study warns appeared first on RenewEconomy.

The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch a year-long exploration of the ‘silent majority’ of people who want to fight climate change

The Guardian US is launching a year-long collaborative reporting project that seeks to explore a pivotal but little-known fact about the climate crisis: the overwhelming majority of the world’s people want their governments to take stronger action.

The 89 Percent Project is a partnership between the Guardian US, Covering Climate Now, Agence France-Presse and dozens of other newsrooms across the globe. The collaboration builds on a slate of recent scientific studies finding that between 80-89% of the world’s population want stronger climate action. This overwhelming global majority, however, does not realize that they are a majority; most think their fellow citizens don’t agree. Experts agree breaking this “spiral of silence” could be pivotal to spurring critical climate action.

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An investigation has found that meat producer JBS is likely to miss its goal to eliminate deforestation in its Amazonian supply chain.

India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest, and Climate Change has announced the draft emission intensity targets for obligated industries under the compliance mechanism of Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS).

Researchers find 89% of people around the world want more to be done, but mistakenly assume their peers do not

• Activate climate’s ‘silent majority’ to supercharge action, experts say
• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

How much of a $450 (£339) pot would you give to a charity that cuts carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy, and how much would you keep for yourself? That was the question posed in a recent academic experiment. The answers mattered: real money was handed out as a result to some randomly chosen participants.

The average person gave away about half the money and kept the rest. But what if you had been told beforehand that the vast majority of other people think climate action is really important? Might you have given more to the charity?

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Making concerned people aware their views are far from alone could unlock the change so urgently needed

• ‘Spiral of silence’: climate action is very popular, so why don’t people realise it?
• The Guardian is joining forces with dozens of newsrooms around the world to launch the 89 Percent Project—and highlight the fact that the vast majority of the world’s population wants climate action. Read more

A huge 89% majority of the world’s people want stronger action to fight the climate crisis but feel they are trapped in a self-fulfilling “spiral of silence” because they mistakenly believe they are in a minority, research suggests.

Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed, experts say.

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Nearly eight out of 10 senior executives around the world say they favour a speedy shift from fossil fuels towards renewables-based electricity within the next decade, found a survey released on Tuesday.

A downturn in New Zealand’s emissions allowance prices suggests that none of the emissions trading system (ETS) auctions this year will clear, according to a market analyst.

While some major emitters have set near-term climate targets that could be considered ambitious using certain criteria, none feature goals for 2030 and 2035 that are sufficiently aligned with the Paris Agreement on closer inspection, the World Resources Institute said on Tuesday.