Chile has gazetted a flagship Article 6 regulation after a year of debates – and more than four months of checks in the Comptroller’s Office – in the final days of President Gabriel Boric’s left-wing administration.

Swiss moves - The Swiss government has approved measures and baseline studies to strengthen the use of existing climate funding sources and explore new ones, including promoting private investment and supporting climate-friendly exports, it announced Friday. It will report on progress to the Federal Council by June 2027, which will decide next steps. As well, Switzerland has set out a new 2050 strategy for long-term sustainable forest protection and use, the government also decided Friday. Switzerland’s forests deliver crucial ecological and social functions - protecting against natural hazards, storing carbon, supporting biodiversity, and supplying wood. The strategy replaces prior forest and wood policies and balances conservation with sustainable utilisation. It includes a set of measures for the 2025–32 period and relies on collaboration among federal, cantonal, and sector stakeholders.

UN agency ICAO has published an updated Sectoral Growth Factor (SGF) figure for 2024 aviation emissions,  which signals that as many as 55 million eligible carbon credits may be needed by airlines to offset their climate impact that year, marginally lower than its initial calculation.

European farming and fertiliser groups on Wednesday called for a delay to the EU’s carbon border levy on fertilisers, warning that newly adopted rules leave importers facing major cost uncertainty.

Industry support for the carbon border levy has weakened as the phaseout of free allowances under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) draws closer, according to a report published Friday.

Extending the scope of the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS) to international flights would be a better strategy for decarbonising aviation than the CORSIA offsetting scheme developed by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), experts have said.