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- Tue 23:36Emissions under Washington’s cap-and-invest programme exceeded the cap by roughly 2% in 2024 despite dropping nearly 8% year-on-year (YoY), a recently updated compliance report showed.
- Global oil companies are failing to disclose their strategies for implementing and reporting progress towards meeting their own 2050 net zero goals, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA).
- Tue 21:26Canada and Alberta have agreed to a deal that would strengthen the province's industrial carbon price and advance a multibillion-dollar carbon capture project in exchange for exemptions from federal climate regulations, national media reported on Monday.
- Tue 20:31The attempted reopening of Article 6 rules at COP30 surprised an already-skittish private sector, which needs regulatory stability and time to begin investing, according to a carbon-specialised banker speaking on a post-COP webinar Tuesday.
- Tue 19:24A UN body is seeking to procure up to over 83,000 voluntary carbon credits through a tender that closes in early December.
- Tue 17:14A Brazilian federal court has temporarily suspended a move from the Amazonas state government that would permit carbon project development in conservation areas of the state, national media has reported.
- Tue 16:41New Jersey clean power plan – New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) released the state’s 2024 Energy Master Plan on Monday, recommending a decade-long policy roadmap focused on clean power, affordability and grid reliability. The plan, developed over 22 months, updates the state’s 2019 strategy and presents “no-regrets” actions to accelerate renewable and advanced generation, expand efficiency and decarbonisation efforts, modernise the grid, continue transportation electrification, improve energy affordability for low- and moderate-income households, and strengthen regional coordination within PJM.
- Tue 16:30Carbon removal (CDR) is no longer a fallback but a central pillar of climate strategy, though major barriers to scale persist, with biochar emerging as the most viable near-term pathway, according to a wide-ranging publication that examined how CDR could deliver nearly 10 billion tonnes of CO2 annually by 2050.
- Tue 15:38Corporates are planning to boost carbon credit spending this decade, but long-term investment in the voluntary sector is being hampered by regulatory uncertainty, a survey has found.
- Tue 14:07An investment fund is investing in an agtech firm in India after securing $375 million to date from institutional investors, it announced Tuesday.
- Tue 13:55Swiss Art. 6 deals - Switzerland’s Federal Council has approved the country's bilateral climate agreements with Zambia, Mongolia, and Uganda, enabling the country to count resulting emission cuts toward its 2030 target, the government said in a statement. Switzerland signed the world’s first such treaty under Article 6 with Peru in 2020, followed by agreements with Ghana, Senegal, Georgia, Vanuatu, Dominica, Thailand, Ukraine, Morocco, Malawi, Uruguay, Chile, Kenya and Tunisia. All deals include safeguards to prevent double counting and uphold environmental and human rights standards.
- Tue 13:41A US-based climate consultancy has proposed a new format for reporting electricity emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, arguing that current market-based Scope 2 methods no longer reflect actual impact or support decision-making.
- Tue 12:21A US-based agtech company has launched a pilot to test its carbon measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) platform on grazing lands, it announced last week.
- 2026 will be a crunch year for implementing UN carbon markets, after Article 6 decisions at COP30 cleared up key administrative uncertainties such as funding shortages and the closure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and affirmed previous agreements on crediting standards and trading rules, according to experts.
- Tue 10:17Biodiesel and renewable diesel produced from vegetable oils can deliver little or no net greenhouse gas benefit compared to fossil diesel in some instances, and in some cases perform worse, an expert said during a webinar on Friday.
- Tue 01:18A handful of countries are still keeping out of the race to trade carbon credits through Article 6 – although the number is dwindling, as even the most ideologically opposed see pragmatic business opportunities.
- Tue 00:24RGGI Allowance (RGA) futures continued last week's steady rise by jumping more than 5% Monday to surpass the $28 threshold, breaching all-time high levels for the benchmark contract.
- Tue 00:06US state and local official made up an informal climate delegation for the absentee nation, reaching international counterparts with a message of resilience in Belem.
- Tue 00:01Household chocolate products may be marketed as ‘sustainable’ despite risks of containing cocoa linked to the destruction of Liberia’s Upper Guinean Rainforest, an NGO report said ahead of a key vote on the EU's contested anti-deforestation law.
