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- Mon 23:01Night flights in autumn and winter account for a disproportionate amount of European aviation's contrail-related global warming impact, according to new analysis published today.
- Mon 20:03Lawmakers in the European Parliament's environment committee voted in favour of the political deal to cut net emissions by 90% by 2040 compared to 1990 levels, paving the way for the full Parliament to endorse the deal next month.
- Mon 17:41The UAE supports the UN’s CORSIA aviation decarbonisation scheme and does not foresee relying on punitive fines for enforcement, according to an Emirati aviation official speaking last week at Carbon Forward Middle East in Abu Dhabi.
- Mon 17:35Grass is greener - Green Earth Group has completed a feasibility study for the Namizimu Afforestation, Reforestation & Agroforestry Carbon Project in Southern Malawi, confirming the project is technically and financially viable and ready to advance, the developer said Monday. It now aims to secure a Letter of Approval (LoA) from Malawi under Article 6, enabling alignment with the country's National Carbon Framework and future international credit transfers. Over the next six months, Green Earth and partner GEP said they will prioritise three actions: launching a 100-hectare pilot to test costs and seedling survival; finalising project boundaries and obtaining the LoA; and initiating formal stakeholder consultations following FPIC standards. These steps will prepare the project for full Project Design Document development and Verra registration, which Green Earth said positions Namizimu as a scalable template for replication across other forestry reserves in Malawi.
- Mon 17:14The Netherlands is launching a new government subsidy programme aimed at accelerating the development of carbon removal technologies, marking one of Europe’s clearest public funding efforts to support carbon removal (CDR).
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New German EV subsidies – Germany’s government has launched a new subsidy programme to support private households in buying or leasing electric vehicles (EVs) from Jan. 1, 2026. Households with taxable annual income below €80,000 are eligible, with grants ranging from €1,500 to €6,000 depending on income, vehicle type, and household size. The scheme is expected to support around 800,000 vehicles between 2026 and 2029. The German government had earlier agreed to spend €3 bln supporting electromobility among lower and middle income households. However, environmental groups criticsed the scheme, arguing that high income thresholds, the exclusion of used cars, and the inclusion of plug-in hybrids would limit emissions reductions. The government said that a change in the subsidy for plug-in hybrids, based on real-world CO2 emissions, is being considered from July 1, 2027. Sales of EVs dropped in 2024 after an earlier subsidy programme ended, but have since recovered. Nevertheless, they lag well behind the previous government's plans for 15 million EVs on the road by 2030. The number of fully electric cars has just crossed two million. German transport emissions have continued to increase. (German environment ministry press release)
- Watering down - The world's largest sovereign wealth fund Norges Bank Investment Management has called on the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to relax its guardrails for corporate climate goals, allowing them to target net zero by 2050 based on 2C of global warming, rather than 1.5C. The $2-trillion fund that owns stakes of almost 1.5% in all listed companies has previously been vocal on tackling climate change and has acknowledged increased climate risk to its holdings, but now says that fears some companies may walk away from science-backed climate goals unless they are relaxed. Carbon Tracker has warned that its push to water down rules risks triggering a domino effect on other climate standards. (FT)
- Mon 17:08European carbon prices plunged the most in ten months on Monday, falling by as much as 3.6% in the first 30 minutes of trading as milder weather forecasts triggered an initial gap lower in natural gas - which was later recovered - while sentiment also took a hit after the US government announced it will impose tariffs on selected European countries until Greenland is ceded to the United States.
- Futures for Phase 1 CORSIA slid last week despite the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) publishing country-by-country offsetting data, which reaffirmed emissions would be higher than previously expected for 2024-26 period of the scheme.
- Mon 16:50The Scottish Government has said the proposed changes to the UK Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will mainly affect industrial sites and businesses already covered by the scheme and receiving free allowances, but assessing the specific impact on Scotland remains difficult.
- Mon 16:19A newly launched consortium is working to set standards for the development of safe, secure, and commercially viable nuclear-powered ships, which its backers say is essential for cutting maritime emissions.Â
- Mon 15:40For Sharjah International Airport, achieving carbon neutrality was mostly about cutting emissions from energy use, and offsetting the rest with credits from voluntary carbon market projects overseas – at least until the domestic market builds up, a company executive told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
- Mon 15:17The UK government is seeking views on its 15-year-old CO2 storage infrastructure regulations, as it looks to create a self-sustaining carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) market, it announced on Monday.
- Mon 15:05As CORSIA moves toward mandatory compliance for most countries, insurance is emerging as critical infrastructure to unlock carbon credit supply and enable the aviation market to scale, writes Phoebe Thomas, CFC, for Women in Carbon.
- Mon 14:43A European climate NGO has criticised the EU-Mercosur trade agreement, signed on Saturday, as deeply problematic, describing it as damaging for both democracy and climate action.
- Mon 14:34Anti-climate sentiment - 2025 marked the first year that opposition to climate action exceeded support in UK newspapers, according to CarbonBrief analysis. Nearly 100 UK newspaper editorials opposed climate action last year - more than double the number backing climate action. Criticism of net zero policies came entirely from right-leaning newspapers, particularly the Sun, the Daily Mail, and the Daily Telegraph, reflecting a shift away from long-standing political consensus on climate change by those on the UK’s political right. Conversely, nearly all of the 46 editorials pushing for more climate action were in the left-leaning and centrist publications the Guardian and the FT, which have much lower circulations than some of the right-leaning titles. 87% of the editorials that opposed climate action cited costs as a reason, despite the transition boasting significant economic benefits. Attacks against UK Energy Secretary Ed Miliband intensified in UK newspaper editorials, and there were also more anti-renewables pieces than pro-renewables ones.
- A carbon removals trade body has published its latest annual report, noting the addition of nearly 20 new companies to its association, and pointing to key developments last year that should drive stronger demand ahead for the nascent sector.
- The European Union’s growing reliance on US liquefied natural gas (LNG) risks replacing its dependence on Russian supplies and derail its climate goals, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) warned on Monday.
- Mon 13:00A new framework has been launched to define the best-practice criteria for high-integrity nature projects, aiming to reduce delivery and credibility risks for investors and buyers in an increasingly scrutinised voluntary carbon market.
- Mon 11:59The EU will stop auctioning carbon allowances to fund the bloc's plan to exit Russian fossil fuels as soon as the €20 billion target is hit, officials have confirmed, which could mean 40 million fewer allowances are auctioned in 2026, assuming EUA prices remain at their current levels.
- Mon 11:53Biomethane guidelines - The ETS Committee of the Italian government has approved the technical and operational guidelines governing the use of sustainable biomethane in stationary plants covered by the EU ETS. These guidelines specifically define the methods for demonstrating the sustainability of biomethane and the documentation that operators must make available to verifiers for the purposes of applying the zero-emission factor. The development allows companies to have a clear and reliable framework for using sustainable biomethane within the ETS - helping to boost competitiveness for industrial decarbonisation.
- Mon 10:34The proposed dilution of the EU’s cars CO2 target, if pushed beyond the text currently on the table, could spell the end of Europe’s objective to reach climate neutrality by 2050, warned Pascal Canfin, a leading member of the European Parliament.
- Conference carbon - Sustainability Forum Middle East (SFME) has launched a carbon offsetting initiative in partnership with SAFA, a forum partner and voluntary carbon credit platform, according to a press release. This initiative will allow participants attending SFME's fourth edition on Jan. 27-28 at the Four Seasons Hotel Bahrain Bay to compensate for the emissions entailed in their participation. Those attending from within Bahrain will be able to offset 1 tonne of CO2eq. to compensate, whilst those travelling in by air will be given the option to offset 2 tonnes of CO2eq. Offset initiatives will support projects to provide solar cookers for refugees in Chad, promote improved cooking practices in Nigeria, and restore mangroves through the Delta Blue Carbon project in Pakistan.
- Mon 10:00Energy investments dominated the China-initiated Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2025, with both green energy and fossil fuel engagements hitting record highs, a new report has found.
