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Continued aggressive spending on new production capacity, alongside plummeting profitability, has made China's steel sector financially vulnerable and hampered the industry-wise shift to greener furnaces, a report has found.

A British Columbia regulator rejected a provincial utility's proposal to provide 100% renewable natural gas (RNG) to all new homes at subsidised rates, while an environmental non-profit took the company to court on Tuesday for alleged greenwashing.

A Canada-based offset project developer has hired a European carbon market expert to lead its trading desk.

Just 2% of continent’s gas capacity has planned retirement date despite pledges to decarbonise, study shows

Europe’s “tone-deaf” expansion of fossil gas is accelerating climate breakdown and increasing reliance on hostile regimes, campaigners have warned.

Just four of Europe’s gas-fired power plants have a retirement plan and new projects will increase the continent’s gas generation capacity by 27%, according to analysis from the campaign group Beyond Fossil Fuels.

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Researchers find carbon offsets approach, which is supposed to regenerate scrubby outback forests, was not reducing emissions as promised

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Australia’s main carbon offsets method is a failure on a global scale and doing little if anything to help address the climate crisis, according to a major new study.

Research by 11 academics found the most popular technique used to create offsets in Australia, known as “human-induced regeneration” and pledged to regenerate scrubby outback forests, had mostly not improved tree cover as promised between about 2015 and 2022.

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More than half of sustainability experts polled by a green think tank believe the Green Deal agenda might be weakened after the 2024 European Parliament elections, preliminary results showed.

EU ministers welcomed potential new rules for the agriculture sector on Tuesday despite weak requirements for climate action, as farmers rioted outside in the streets of Brussels.

Governor Spencer Cox (R) last week signed legislation that would allow Utah to purchase the state's largest coal-fired power plant, originally scheduled for retirement in 2025, amid backlash from the operator citing a drop in electricity demand.

Cemex continues to cut its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, allowing it to stretch the length of time it can rely on its surplus of European carbon allowances, the cement-maker said on Tuesday.

New research from three Australian universities shows forest regrowth projects show little improvement, many going backwards.

The post “It makes climate change worse:” Carbon credit projects claiming to regrow forests are failing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Major new report maps out a path for Australia to deliver a 75% emissions cut below 2005 levels by 2030, and net zero by 2035.

The post “No excuses:” Australia urged to exit coal, double rooftop solar by 2030 in accelerated push to net zero appeared first on RenewEconomy.

An Atlanta-based direct air capture (DAC) company announced its official launch Tuesday, aiming to provide an economically advantageous way to remove CO2 at large scale.

Gold Standard has expressed disappointment with a UN decision to keep its voluntary carbon credits still pending approval for the current phase of CORSIA, and regrets that the assessment process did not allow for more open communication with other applying programmes.

California electricity sector emissions continued to fall to record lows in February, as natural gas retreated from its historically high share of the state's energy supply it has held in recent months, data published Friday showed.

A carbon-negative investment platform is issuing a biochar carbon token that "cannot be corrupted by greenwashing", using blockchain-based trading technology, it announced on Tuesday.

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Many countries are not including sustainability in consumer protection laws, an action regarded as a critical way of hastening the implementation of the GBF, a UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) officer said Tuesday.

Two prominent climate policy experts have taken issue with criticisms that the EU’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework risks leading to double counting towards UN climate targets, saying this is “an essential feature rather than a bug”.

A London-headquartered carbon insurance company has unveiled the expansion of its offering to covered voluntary enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) will not bow to pressure and validate the use of voluntary carbon credits to help a company achieve its emission targets, the body confirmed to Carbon Pulse Tuesday.