EU governments leave €85 bln in ETS2 funding frozen as social plans stall
One year after the deadline to submit national Social Climate Plans, 19 EU member states have yet to file the documents required to access funding linked to the bloc’s new Emissions Trading System for road transport and heating fuels (ETS2), leaving €85.3 billion effectively frozen, according to campaigners.
Read MoreIrish presidency aims for EU member states agreement on ETS in December
Ireland, which holds the Council of EU member states’ rotating six-month presidency from July, is aiming to secure an agreement between the bloc’s 27 nations on the revision of the Emissions Trading System in the first half of December.
Read MoreCookstove projects draw fresh criticism in India as investigation alleges poor adoption, limited awareness
An investigation into cookstove projects in India’s Karnataka state has found that some rural households rarely used the stoves they received, were unaware they were participating in carbon credit schemes, and did not receive any share of the revenues.
Read MoreUS finalises regenerative feedstock rule capitalising on biofuel markets
The Trump administration announced a final Regenerative Feedstock Rule to build on federal support for domestic biofuels and the agriculture sector.
Read MoreSAF industry must move beyond competing technologies to scaling production, experts say
Scaling sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production, rather than competing over technologies, is now the industry’s biggest challenge, experts said on Thursday.
Read MoreINTERVIEW: French real estate pioneer shapes EU push to certify CO2 stored in buildings
France’s decade-old BBCA low carbon building label has provided the “laboratory” and much of the methodology now underpinning Europe’s push to create a single low carbon label and certification scheme for biogenic CO2 stored in buildings, its president Stanislas Pottier told Carbon Pulse in an interview.
Read MoreBattery-electric trucks offer deepest emissions cuts across US heavy transport -study
Battery-electric trucks and buses offer deeper lifecycle emissions cuts than hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles across US medium- and heavy-duty transport, even under scenarios favourable to hydrogen, according to a new study.
Read MoreTech giant opens value chain decarbonisation RFP targeting heavy industry, transport
A US-based tech giant has launched a request for proposals (RFP) seeking emissions reduction interventions across a broad range of hard-to-abate sectors in its value chain.
Read MoreLCAW26: Investor says Brazil policy inspires more confidence than US or EU
Emerging market economies are proving to be more reliable recipients of green investment than developed countries, according to a Brazil-based investor.
Read MoreEU ministers split over weakening CO2 car rules amid boom in EV sales
The EU’s 27 environment ministers remained divided over plans to relax car CO2 rules on Thursday, while Wopke Hoekstra, the EU’s climate chief, said the recent boom in electric car sales is a sign that weakening the cars CO2 target may not have been necessary after all.
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