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The federal government of Malaysia must bring in compliance carbon market regulations as reliance on the voluntary market alone means it will take a long time to achieve the desired level of liquidity in the market, a representative from Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX) said Thursday.

Finland and Sweden are failing to protect their primary and old-growth forests, which are increasingly threatened by budget cuts and logging activities, according to a WWF report.

The UK government and the City of London Corporation have appointed a former COP president as chair of the Transition Finance Council, they announced on Thursday.

South Korea’s car making giant Hyundai may start to lose out to peers with stronger emissions reduction plans as tariffs such as the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) come into effect, penalising automakers whose steel emissions remain high, a think tank said Thursday.

Mark Avery to stand down from role with Wild Justice but won’t completely give up campaigning, he insists

If government ministers and civil servants are grey squirrels, they may think they can rest easy – the predatory pine marten in the Westminster jungle is leaving them in peace.

A campaigner who has “created a landscape of fear” over the authorities’ failure to protect nature is stepping back from Wild Justice to spend more time with the wildlife – and grandchildren – in his garden.

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The price of carbon allowances in the New Zealand emissions trading scheme reached an annual high on Thursday amid large trading volumes.

The UK government plans to reduce the number of biodiversity-related legal challenges allowed for major infrastructure projects from three to one.

European carbon prices jumped strongly on Thursday morning, adding as much as 3.6% as a rise in German power prices was reported to have pulled gas and EUAs higher, breaching technical levels and triggering more discussion about the market's increasing speculative length.

A US-based direct air capture (DAC) firm has raised $26 million to complete the development of its flagship system and deploy it at a desert test site, the company announced this month.

BeZero Carbon has published a “new blueprint” for governments designing scalable carbon markets, including a future where its fledgling industry becomes regulated to maintain independence and integrity in assessing credits.

People are forgetting the urgent need to conserve nature, focusing instead on 'sexier' technological endeavours such as artificial intelligence, robotics, free and abundant energy, and space travel, according to the head of financier for nature-based carbon projects, which is planning to work on 40 or more new activities this year.

Taiwan on Thursday proposed to reduce its emissions by up to 40% by 2035 as its latest Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC).

One of South Korea's largest securities companies is gearing up for expansion in carbon markets both at home and abroad, with a potentially growing international offset project pipeline, a company official told Carbon Pulse.

But climate change and energy minister says government will not announce its 2035 emissions target before election

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Australia’s climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, is “not giving up” on the Paris climate agreement despite the US president, Donald Trump, moving to pull the world’s second-largest polluter out of the global accord.

Bowen made the comments as the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, all but ruled out withdrawing from Paris if he won the federal election in 2025, suggesting such a move would damage trading relationships and cost jobs.

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Indonesia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with ExxonMobil this week to progress carbon capture and storage (CCS) work in tandem with a $10-billion petrochemical plant.

Last year saw some 18.78 million Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) issued to projects, a record high, but short of the 20 mln initially expected by the Clean Energy Regulator (CER), highlighting longer-term supply concerns.

A sharp rise in the EU's carbon price combined with a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) could significantly reduce emissions but also carries economic trade-offs, a new central bank study has found.

New research reveals more than 60% of Australia’s remaining coal power fleet is more than 40 years old, with rapidly diminishing reliability driving outage risks.

The post Old king coal risks leaving Australia “in the dark” as aging power plants grow unreliable appeared first on RenewEconomy.

A temporary energy market rule change will allow two mothballed diesel generators to be used as emergency back-up power sources in the remaining summer months.

The post AEMC answers state’s call to use mothballed diesel plants for emergency summer back-up appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Frontier's nuclear modelling poses a valuable question about the pace of decarbonisation and what we are prepared to pay for it. Much of the answer, though, can be found in what the analysis left out.

The post The devil of Frontier’s nuclear modelling is not in the detail, it’s in the omissions appeared first on RenewEconomy.