Carbon Pulse

The EU cut its net greenhouse gas emissions down by 37% between 1990 and 2023, driven by steep cuts in the energy sector, but falling short of the EU’s goal of 55% by 2030, the European Environment Agency (EEA) reported on Wednesday.

Eastern EU countries like Poland and Romania are developing national CO2 transport and storage frameworks, but public opposition to onshore storage means their emissions may need to be shipped across Europe to be stored under the North Sea – potentially taking energy-intensive industries with them.

Challenges in decarbonising China's aluminium sector persist, but policy signals such as the expansion of the domestic emissions trading scheme are starting to guide the industry towards a lower-carbon future, according to a think tank.

Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCUs) issuance has shrunk in the first quarter of 2025, according to data published by the Clean Energy Regulator Thursday.

Malaysia Forest Fund (MFF), a federal government agency, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Gold Standard to strengthen the fund’s institutional capacity and support the development of national carbon credit initiatives, it said Thursday.

Shell, experts, and the Clean Energy Regulator have sought to allay concerns that the Prelude floating LNG facility will be the source of an infinite supply of Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs).

Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has signed a deal with an energy transition solutions provider to explore the feasibility of developing a low-carbon aluminium project in India.

Minnesota is outperforming the national average in several key areas of clean energy transition, even as the US energy sector saw mixed results in emissions and investment in 2024, according to a new report.

A major California refinery, an obligated entity under the state’s cap-and-trade programme, announced Wednesday that it expects to close shop in the second quarter of 2026.

Recent developments in California and Washington to increase the stringency of their respective clean fuels programmes supported credit values heading into April, but this uptick in prices was hindered by US President Donald Trump's latest actions that seek to attack state-level climate policies.

Occidental Petroleum has acquired a direct air capture (DAC) startup, according to media reports, marking its second such purchase in under two years through its subsidiary Oxy Low Carbon Ventures.

Despite over a decade of international commitments to uphold the rights of Indigenous and local communities (IP&LCs) involved in forest carbon markets, many initiatives are falling short in practice, according to a recently published study.

In two separate lawsuits, federal judges ordered multiple federal agencies on Tuesday to unfreeze billions in climate funds “unlawfully” suspended as per an inauguration day executive order issued by US President Donald Trump.

The Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) played a critical role in building out Chile’s renewable energy generation, Carbon Pulse analysis of new national data has found, while dozens of Chilean renewables projects look ahead to the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM).

Removal of the Biden administration’s clean power plan rule and vehicle fuel economy standards would increase US emissions by over half a billion tonnes of CO2 by 2050, according to federal data released Tuesday.

Emissions Reductions Alberta (ERA) launched a C$65 ($47) million funding opportunity for technologies with environmental benefits through its annual Industrial Transformation Challenge on Wednesday.

Brazilian public prosecutors issued a recommendation recently to cancel the state of Para’s $180 million deal for the sale of jurisdictional REDD (J-REDD) credits, saying the agreement violates national law.

A West Virginia bill allowing the state to lease space under its parks is heading up the chain of command for final approval. 

Uganda is very close to signing a bilateral agreement with Switzerland under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, following the legalisation of country’s carbon market regulations earlier this month, an official from the Ministry of Water and Environment (MWE) said Wednesday.

A large Silicon Valley-based technology company confirmed it had retired over 700,000 voluntary carbon credits last year, up 52% year-on-year, in its sustainability report published Wednesday.