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India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has released 12 draft methodologies to be adopted for its voluntary offset mechanism under the country's Carbon Credit Trading Scheme (CCTS) and has opened them for public consultation, it announced this week.

The chancellor’s attempt to get rich landowners to pay their fair share was correct in principle. But this measure has missed the mark

Rachel Reeves needs to rid herself of ­troublesome farmers. It’s become obvious, if it wasn’t at the time of the budget, that they are not going to go away.

Their shouts of protest are getting louder and the petition against proposals to tax inherited farms is growing longer.

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University of Cambridge research suggests living collections have collectively reached peak capacity

Botanic gardens around the world are failing to conserve the rarest and most threatened species growing in their living collections because they are running out of space, according to research from the University of Cambridge.

Researchers analysed a century’s worth of records from 50 botanic gardens and arboreta, collectively growing half-a-million plants, to see how the world’s living plant collections have changed since 1921.

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A proposed UK law to make climate and environmental targets legally binding amid a more joined-up approach has been delayed after a contentious debate in parliament.

California diesel consumption in October declined month-on-month (MoM) following two months of gains, while gasoline volumes rose from September levels as retail gas prices decreased, state data published this week showed.

Credit prices used towards alternate compliance options in Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulations (CFR) programme for 2024 increased 2.2% compared to last year, according to a notice from the environment ministry on Friday.

Financial entities moved focus to V26 California Carbon Allowances (CCA), while continuing to derisk across V25 CCAs, RGGI Allowances (RGA), Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LFS), and Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) holdings as credit prices in the secondary market weakened, latest figures from the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) showed Friday.

US DOE-funded carbon management and clean energy projects should consider legally binding community agreements to build long-term trust in low-carbon projects, a national think tank suggested Friday.

An Iowa-based CO2 pipeline project developer filed legal action Thursday against a commissioner on the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (PUC), demanding she be recused from reviewing the company's permit application due to an alleged conflict of interest.

A global alternate energy investment firm is adding a Virginia natural gas power plant to its portfolio.

The government says it will dispose of its 140 tonnes of radioactive plutonium - currently stored at Sellafield.

The Supervisory Body (SBM) of the Article 6.4 mechanism should weigh in on property rights concerning UN-approved credit issuances at its February meeting, according to an emissions trading industry group.

The US stands to be the country with the largest demand from its airlines for Phase 1 of the UN's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA), according to analyst forecasts, but there remains confusion over the impact on the scheme of President Donald Trump pulling the country out of the Paris Agreement.

Zambia has published a carbon market framework, which establishes a fee structure for international credit trade, the institutional arrangements for managing markets in the country, and the functions of its national registry, as it moves a step closer towards Article 6 readiness.

The UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) has published a request for information as it seeks to ramp up to capacity building, knowledge sharing, and investment in carbon removal.

Climate experts see a new Conservative-led government in Germany staying the course on climate action, albeit with a greater focus on carbon pricing and removals that some warn risks backfiring politically.

Ministers avoid internal party row by promising potential rebels they will have input into environmental legislation

Ministers have seen off a bill that would have made the UK’s climate and environment targets legally binding, after promising Labour backbenchers that they would have input into environmental legislation.

The deal avoids an internal row over the bill, which was introduced by the Liberal Democrat MP Roz Savage but had support from dozens of Labour MPs.

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There is no planned revision of the EU’s Emissions Trading System for road transport and heating fuels (ETS2) until 2028, EU sources told Carbon Pulse in response to calls from national governments to address social acceptability concerns before the scheme kicks off two years from now.

The ICE exchange on Friday said it saw a record number of environmental contracts trade in 2024, and confirmed the launch of new EU ETS2 futures in May.

The European Commission says it will deliver an "unprecedented simplification effort" in a leaked draft of its 'competitiveness compass' seen by Carbon Pulse on Friday, which also includes a decarbonisation roadmap.