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The lead European Parliament negotiator on the EU's Green Claims Directive told Carbon Pulse she will push for climate neutrality claims based on carbon offsets to be allowed only for leading companies that need to tackle their “residual emissions” during final talks on the directive due to kick off this week.

Researchers say companies have prolonged injustice and exaggerated cost of solving infrastructure problems

Water companies are adopting disinformation tactics similar to those used by the fossil fuel and tobacco industries with the widespread use of greenwashing to downplay the environmental harm they cause, a study says.

Environmental scientists analysed the communications of the nine main water and sewerage companies in England, and compared them with a framework of 28 greenwashing tactics employed, researchers say, by the tobacco, alcohol, fossil fuels and chemical industries.

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Around one-third of corporate emissions target outcomes set for 2020 lacked accountability, with limited transparency surrounding their outcomes, according to a recent study.

Several countries are on track to announce the ratification of the UN High Seas Treaty at two major ocean conferences in mid-2025, paving the way for the hard-fought agreement to come into force nearly two years after it opened for signature, a senior member at a large philanthropic organisation told Carbon Pulse.

An Asian shipping giant has halved its goal for retiring carbon removal (CDR) credits to 100,000 tonnes per year by 2030, due to the "immaturity" of the technology and market, it announced on Monday.

Latin America and the Caribbean are advancing Article 6 and voluntary carbon initiatives, seeing increased regional efforts to adapt and participate in these markets, according to various speakers and bulletins last week.

The European Commission has opened public consultations on four draft pieces of secondary legislation under the EU's Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), a regulation adopted last year that sets aspiring targets for the production of "strategically important" clean technologies in the bloc.

Project providing subsidies to install solar batteries and electric appliances part of Labor deal with crossbenchers

Suburb-wide electrification trials are set to be rolled out across the country under an intervention designed to help spark the household transition from gas.

The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, has formally directed the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) to consider funding more pilots like Electrify 2515, a community-led initiative to electrify 500 homes in one postcode in Wollongong, NSW.

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The government of Nigeria must legalise carbon market regulations soon in order to boost investor confidence and promote participation, according to experts at a recent stakeholders’ consultation.

A London-based investor announced Monday it has raised an additional £27 million ($33.7 mln) to advance investments in nature-based solutions and biodiversity net gain (BNG) projects across the UK.

A France-based agronomic research agency has introduced a free software tool to help countries in the Global South map deforestation risks and meet REDD+ carbon credit certification requirements.

European carbon prices began the week with a move lower as bearish traders sought to impose their views but ran into stubborn defence at technical levels, while natural gas prices eased back as the supply outlook improved even as EU storage levels fell to around 15% below the same time last year.

Stockholm Exergi will receive over SEK 20 billion (€1.74 bln) from a reverse government auction for its Stockholm biomass co-generation plant, which aims to become the EU's first running on bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), the company announced on Monday.

Complaint says Chemours factory dramatized in Hollywood movie Dark Waters continues to pollute West Virginia river

The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic “forever chemicals”, a new lawsuit alleges.

It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.

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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) now expects the decision on which cookstove methodologies will qualify for its Core Carbon Principles (CCP) quality label to be published by the end of March, several months after initially planned.

The pilot phase of Vietnam's domestic carbon market will start in June after the government issued a decree greenlighting the scheme.

In the wake of the monumental decision to finalise Article 6 rules at COP29, the world now cannot afford for the new UN crediting mechanism to fail, but seeing it through will not be easy, according to an international carbon markets veteran.

Norway’s largest waste-to-energy plant located in Oslo has resumed construction on its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility, which aims to generate credits for the voluntary carbon market (VCM), the company announced on Monday.

The Italian government continues to incentivise programmes for gas and operators of liquefied natural gas, pursuing a path that researchers consider out of step with market reality.

A proposed mangrove methodology under Taiwan's voluntary carbon scheme has met with criticism from scholars and environmental groups, amid concerns over its potential negative impacts and exaggerated carbon sequestration benefit.