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- Wed 20:47
Litigation's decade – Climate litigation has evolved from scattered domestic complaints into a global accountability system recognised by international courts over the past decade, according to a Climate Litigation Network report released this week. The analysis marks 10 years since the Urgenda Foundation won its landmark 2015 case forcing the Netherlands to cut emissions – the first court anywhere to order stronger government climate action. Nearly 3,000 climate cases have been filed since then, establishing legal requirements for governments and corporations to address emissions and reforming national laws. (E&E News)
- Wed 20:07A carbon offset project developer and a clean fuels producer have agreed to merge into a new US-domiciled, Nasdaq-listed company that aims to scale carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green methanol from a $1 billion Louisiana biomass facility.
- Wed 17:09Serbia's parliament approved on Wednesday legislation to introduce a national tax on greenhouse gas emissions from 2026, as the country moves to align with EU climate policy and shield exporters from costs under the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
- Wed 16:56European lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed new rules to expand CO2-monitoring requirements for heavy-industry goods entering the EU, giving the green light to detailed provisions for the accrediation of verifiers and auditors under the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
- Wed 16:20A carbon removal-focused registry is hoping to become one of the approved certification schemes under the EU’s Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) scheme, an executive told Carbon Pulse in Barcelona.
- Wed 15:23A global commodities trading firm has revealed its investment in a series of African cookstove projects amid expectations of reaping rewards for CORSIA-eligible credits that could top $40 per tonne, a conference in Barcelona heard on Wednesday.Â
- Wed 12:59Latin American carbon markets are welcoming new regulatory infrastructure, concrete state-led planning, and varied methodological offerings from standards based in the region.
- Wed 11:43Market labels that indicate eligibility for CORSIA or the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) are already driving the value of cookstove credits higher, and as the voluntary and regulated carbon markets increasingly converge, prices should only rise across the board, said analysts at an industry event in Barcelona.
- Wed 06:00The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has teamed up with a project developer to target industrial decarbonisation, promoting the integration of hydrogen-based solutions into global carbon markets.
- Wed 03:55A collection of governments around the Pacific are seeking input from businesses to guide their negotiations on a green economy partnership.
- A series of high-profile sovereign forest carbon project agreements covering vast swathes of land, struck between Dubai-based Blue Carbon LLC and multiple developing nation governments in 2023-24, have stalled or could now be void as the company appears to have ceased operations, according to sources and media reports.
