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Zimbabwe appears to have backed down from its threat to render “null and void” all existing carbon offset deals in the country.

A former US Democratic Congressman has taken a business development role at a Washington DC-based company that is seeking to deploy refrigerant carbon credit projects across the globe.

UK enhanced rock weathering (ERW) project developer UNDO has secured $12 million of fresh investment to scale operations globally, it announced Monday, with additional funding worth $1 mln to come from a further forward sale of carbon removal credits.

France on Monday unveiled an ambitious plan to accelerate its greenhouse gas emissions cuts, targeting a 50% reduction by 2030 compared to 1990 levels.

Asset manager KraneShares on Friday saw the total net assets of its voluntary carbon offset exchange-traded fund dip to 90% below the starting value in just over the past year, as integrity concerns and a rough macroeconomic picture have rocked standardised credit prices.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) values rose over the past week as one large buyer reportedly drove the market higher, with traders offering different theories why either emitters or speculators could be behind the move.

UK renewable investor boosts its Australian portfolio with a strategically located wind farm as it seeks to create a "model" of the clean energy future in Australia.

The post Octopus snaps up another 400MW wind project in NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

California regulator ARB on Monday published its initial design considerations for mechanisms to ratchet up the stringency of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS), including a one-time ‘step change’ in the programme’s carbon intensity (CI) targets and a measure to automatically tighten the GHG reduction goals if set parameters are hit.

By generating new high-resolution maps, researchers found cocoa plantations were causing far worse forest destruction in West Africa than previously thought. Wilma Hart, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Humans prospered in a stable climate. But conditions are changing. Research out today shows 2 billion people will be pushed out of the habitable zone by 2.7C warming. Why? What does this mean for us? Annabelle Workman, Research Fellow, Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne Kathryn Bowen, Professor - Environment, Climate and Global Health at Melbourne Climate Futures and Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne, The University of Melbourne Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Mangroves and salt marshes pump out methane – but soak up carbon dioxide. Overall, the world’s coasts are a net greenhouse sink – and we must preserve them Judith Rosentreter, Senior research fellow, Southern Cross University Bradley Eyre, Professor of Biogeochemistry, Director of the Centre for Coastal Biogeochemistry, Southern Cross University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

A biodiversity index suite has been released on Monday in an effort to help investors align their portfolios with their biodiversity impact reduction and sustainable development goals (SDGs) by screening for companies with low impact.

Pro- and anti-nuclear factions among the EU’s 27 nations re-emerged during Monday’s ministerial meeting on competition affairs, with some ministers calling for a reduction in newly-introduced sustainability reporting requirements for companies during the jarring session.

The European Parliament has postponed a vote to approve the strengthening of the bloc's renewables target, as division among member states over the role of nuclear threatens to disrupt a process previously seen as a formality.  

Verra's founding CEO is stepping down, the voluntary carbon market standard announced Monday.

Prices for carbon credits continued to sink lower over the past week, particularly for older vintages, as the long term bearish direction accelerated amid a whirlwind of African country initiatives to muscle into both the voluntary market and its sovereign nation rival under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

Global trade in chocolate, worth more than $1tn a year, is leading to widespread deforestation in Ivory Coast and Ghana

The world’s hunger for chocolate is a major cause of the destruction of protected forests in west Africa, scientists have said.

Satellite maps of Ivory Coast and Ghana showed swathes of formerly dense forest had become cocoa plantations since 2000, according to a study.

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The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has disclosed plans to develop a regulatory framework for carbon pricing, according to local media sources, which would see firms active in the oil and gas sector pay for emissions as well as drive reductions via carbon credits.

A strong wave of demand for biodiversity credits is expected within the next couple of years, experts speaking at an event in London on Monday predicted while urging standard-setting bodies to ensure rules exist to allow the market to scale with integrity.