Australia launches savanna burning accounting tool ahead of hotly anticipated ACCU methods

Published 08:27 on June 13, 2025 / Last updated at 08:27 on June 13, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Australia

Australia has launched a new tool to better account for emissions reductions under new savanna fire management (SFM) methods that are being developed under the national carbon credit scheme, the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water (DCCEEW) said Friday.

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Queensland fund commits A$18 mln to ACCU-generating land restoration work

Published 09:45 on June 12, 2025 / Last updated at 09:45 on June 12, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Australia

The Queensland state government’s Land Restoration Fund has committed A$18 million ($11.68 mln) to eight projects that will help abate 180,000 tonnes of CO2 over project lifetimes across 315,000 hectares, generating Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) in the process.

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Australia’s climate change policies are “deficient”, think tank warns

Published 09:30 on June 12, 2025 / Last updated at 09:30 on June 12, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Australia

Australia’s policies and targets to cut emissions in line with the Paris Agreement are either off track or insufficient, according to a report published Thursday, which claimed the world would see global warming reach 2-3C if other nations took the same approach.

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Japanese company signs deal for large green steel plant in Malaysia

Published 06:08 on June 11, 2025 / Last updated at 06:08 on June 11, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Japan, Other APAC

A Japanese industrial major this week announced it has teamed up with a local partner in Malaysia to build a green steel plant that will make 2 million tonnes of hot briquetted iron (HBI) annually with significantly lower carbon emissions than traditional coal-fired facilities.

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Laos adopts decree to speed up carbon market, develop Article 6 pipeline

Published 08:54 on June 10, 2025 / Last updated at 08:56 on June 10, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, International, Nature-based, Other APAC, Paris Article 6, Voluntary

Laos this week adopted a decree to govern its carbon market, following up on previous efforts with an eye to developing a project pipeline under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.

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Malaysian oil and gas projects risk billions of tonnes of CO2 pollution -report

Published 07:57 on June 10, 2025 / Last updated at 07:57 on June 10, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Other APAC

Malaysia could see over 4 billion tonnes of CO2e of lifecycle emissions should all of its existing and planned oil and gas projects continue or go ahead, an environmental watchdog warned Monday. 

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Japanese steelmakers urged to scrap controversial carbon accounting method

Published 10:02 on June 6, 2025 / Last updated at 10:02 on June 6, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Japan

Some 30 civil society groups have published an open letter urging steelmakers to focus on decarbonising their industry instead of sticking to an accounting method that allows them to market coal-based steel as green.

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Australian partners sign CCS agreement for hydrogen and ammonia project

Published 09:37 on June 5, 2025 / Last updated at 09:37 on June 5, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Australia

Woodside Energy’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) hopes took another step forward this week after the consortium it leads signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with listed miner and energy startup NH3.

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Clean energy spend is double fossil fuel investment, but nowhere near COP28 GST pledge -IEA

Published 07:55 on June 5, 2025 / Last updated at 07:55 on June 5, 2025 / / Americas, Asia Pacific, EMEA

Energy sector spending is now two-to-one favouring renewables and nuclear over fossil fuels, and capital spend will rise 2% this year to $3.3 trillion, but this is driven more by energy security concerns than emissions reduction ambitions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said Thursday.

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Australian think tank makes case for Asian CBAM to drive green manufacturing

Published 15:01 on June 4, 2025 / Last updated at 09:34 on June 4, 2025 / / Asia Pacific, Australia, CBAM, China, Japan, Other APAC, South Korea

A pan-Asia Pacific carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) taking in the wealthiest industrial nations covering steel, cement, and aluminium is the best and cheapest way to reduce emissions from these hard-to-abate sectors while preserving margins and industries, an Australian think tank argued in a report Thursday.

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