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So-called 'junk' carbon credits are becoming less popular among corporates, while international brands have been prioritising those of a higher integrity, Carbon Pulse analysis of retirement and rating agency data has shown.

The current lack of an India-based standard eligible to supply carbon credits for the UN's CORSIA scheme is creating a challenge for the aviation industry in the country, an official told a conference in New Delhi this week.

Efforts are underway to set a sustainable fuels target at the next UN climate summit, COP30, in Brazil this November, a conference in Brussels has heard.

Industry body launches new information blitz targeting Australians who are "susceptible to misinformation" from anti-renewable campaigns.

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The UK’s electric vehicle (EV) market is at a crossroads, with cost barriers, insufficient charging infrastructure, and policy concerns slowing the transition to net zero emissions, according to industry experts.

The Paris Agreement’s new international carbon market regime, combined with the development of digital monitoring technologies and rising standards, is helping to rebalance the perception of risk in the voluntary carbon market, speakers told a conference on Tuesday.

A fund from a US airline has invested in and purchased 500,000 CO2 removal (CDR) credits from a California-based direct air capture (DAC) firm.

The oil and gas industry is sticking to its promises of decarbonisation, but having to adjust its pathway as it runs into complications ranging from high costs of renewables, access to projects and grids, to the slow development of carbon capture, executives said on Tuesday.

A fee mechanism for correspondingly adjusted Article 6 arbon credits can be used to bridge funding gaps in climate initiatives, particularly for developing nations seeking to monetise carbon reductions while advancing their ambitions, a conference heard Tuesday.

Dry pattern seen among entire ‘lower basin’ of the Colorado River, including Arizona and desert cities such as Las Vegas

Dramatic rainstorms earlier this month brought more than 6in of rain to the California mountains – a full month’s worth of rain in little more than a day – but the deluge wasn’t enough to reverse a worsening drought trend that is set to intensify further in the coming weeks and months.

Along the iconic Pacific Coast highway in Malibu, where just weeks earlier flames leveled hundreds of oceanside homes, a Los Angeles firefighter was washed out to sea, and later rescued.

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Farmers are warning of a “cashflow crisis” that has left many in the agricultural sector wondering how they will make it to the end of the year.

At the annual meeting of the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) of England and Wales, its president told members that “bad policy, geopolitics and unprecedented weather” had left some sectors of UK farming “in the worst cashflow crisis ever”.

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A carbon rating agency launched a service on Wednesday to give customers a broader ‘estimated’ score for the quality of credits issued to a project.

The global biomass energy industry is set to triple by 2030, posing unprecedented threats to intact tropical forests worldwide, according to a report released on Tuesday.

The Nature Conservancy (TNC) has called on the EU Commission to introduce a standard to accelerate the development of compliance and voluntary nature credit markets in Europe.

India’s approach of adopting unit-specific targets rather than sector-wide benchmarks in its domestic carbon market, a legacy of the Performance, Achieve, and Trade (PAT) scheme, aims to address its diverse industrial landscape to ensure fair and effective compliance.

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports are increasingly being seen as a “potential negotiating or bargaining chip” to avoid trade tariffs with the US, with significant upside for the sector, said an industry expert.

European carbon prices weakened during a quiet morning's trading on Tuesday as natural gas also retreated, with traders focusing on geopolitical developments that could boost gas supplies to Europe.

Imminent new supply of carbon credits eligible for Phase 1 of CORSIA is poised to provide a long-awaited boost to the market, after some 8.7 million units were verified as ready for issuance under the ART TREES standard.

The COP16 UN biodiversity conference resumed on Tuesday in Rome after talks were abruptly halted in November, with negotiators facing increasing pressure to hammer out a deal on nature finance amid fears that long-standing political divisions may prove too challenging to bridge.

Carbon removal (CDR) buyers’ coalition Frontier this week launched the application process for its 2025 pre-purchase agreements.