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Soil carbon prices in India will need to increase by 60% to encourage wider adoption of conservation agriculture for carbon credit generation in India under Verra's VM0042 methodology, a study published this week in the journal Nature suggests.

The EU Parliament has voted in favour of the EU ratification of the UN’s Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdictions (BBNJ) treaty during a plenary on Wednesday, paving the way for member states to move their national processes along swiftly.

Bhutan's government and a group of conservation NGOs have committed to catalyse $1 billion to protect tigers and their habitats over the next decade.

Carbon insurers, previously focused on nature-based solutions (NBS) credits, are entering the arena of durable CO2 removals (CDR) and adapting existing insurance strategies to suit a new risk profile, according to a specialist speaking to Carbon Pulse.

CreditNature has achieved a “world first” by receiving accreditation from an independent accounting framework for its ecosystem restoration methodology, in a move that could help scale nature markets, it said Wednesday.

European carbon allowance prices are expected to embark on a sustained rally in the near future as the current 100 million-tonne annual surplus in supply dwindles to become an annual deficit of as much as 300 Mt after the end of the REPowerEU programme, according to a veteran analyst.

British Medical Association says decision to take Dr Sarah Benn off medical register for five months ‘sends worrying message’

Doctors groups are calling for urgent consideration of the rules for medical professionals who take peaceful direct action on the climate crisis, which they say is the “greatest threat to global health”, after a GP was suspended from the register for non-violent protest.

Dr Sarah Benn, a GP from Birmingham, was taken off the medical register for five months on Tuesday by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), the disciplinary arm of the General Medical Council (GMC), over her climate protests.

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A direct air capture developer is teaming up with a carbon storage technology company to create a value chain for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it underground, helping to streamline the sale of carbon credits, it announced on Wednesday.

President Joe Biden's administration has launched a programme to restore and protect 3 million hectares of wetlands and 160,000 kilometres of rivers in the US by 2030, with over 100 NGOs, Tribes, and local governments joining the initiative as early members.

European carbon prices gave up gains of as much as 2.7% on Wednesday morning in sync with a reversal in energy markets and the publication of weekly Commitment of Traders data that showed the biggest reduction in investment funds' bearish bets in a month.

Countries in the Asia Pacific region are highly vulnerable to nature-related risks, including loss of biodiversity, an increase in pollution, and the non-availability of freshwater, and the failure to address these losses could lead material financial risk for companies and institutional investors, panellists told a webinar Wednesday.

Plastic credits should be used wherever there’s a financing gap to make plastic collection happen and as a bridge to extended producer responsibility regulation, while they should be sufficiently expensive to dissuade plastic makers from producing the waste in the first place, according to a developer of track and trace software for waste recovery.

Small industrial emitters falling under the “other” sectors covered by the EU’s Emissions Trading System for road transport and heating fuels, ETS2, are typically German installations burning fossil gas in plants of less than 20 megawatts, analysts say.

New emissions data from Australia’s climate change department shows emissions in its largest resources export state rose over the previous year by 9 million tonnes of CO2-e but those in its largest coal mining state have dropped significantly every year for five consecutive years.

One of the world's largest steelmakers has teamed up with government agencies to increase carbon sequestration and protect marine ecosystems in South Korea, using steel by-products to help cultivate seaweeds.

£2.2bn-worth of oil processed in China, India and Turkey – to whom Russia supplies crude – was imported in 2023, data shows

The UK has been accused of “helping Russia pay for its war on Ukraine” by continuing to import record amounts of refined oil from countries processing Kremlin fossil fuels.

Government data analysed by the environmental news site Desmog shows that imports of refined oil from India, China and Turkey amounted to £2.2bn in 2023, the same record value as the previous year, up from £434.2m in 2021.

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The production of energy-intensive green steel, chemicals, and hydrogen is likely to migrate from countries with limited renewables resources to those with abundant supply over the next two decades — but that does not have to result in a deindustrialisation for those that lose the operations, according to a study published on Wednesday. 

The Australian state of Victoria is committing A$3.8 million ($2.5 mln) to develop tools and guidelines for renewable energy project developers to avoid harming local biodiversity, it announced Wednesday.

Australia's Woodside Energy saw its climate action plan rejected by shareholders at its annual general meeting in Perth on Wednesday with nearly 60% of investors voting against it, while the chairman suffered one of the largest shareholder revolts recorded for an ASX50 company in recent years.

A Thai state-owned bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Bangkok-based climate consultancy to support domestic businesses and farmers in meeting their decarbonisation goals through trading of carbon credits and renewable energy certificates (RECs), it said in a statement.