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Unknown 'devil in the detail' about the standards, procedures, guidelines, and methodologies for Article 6.4 trade is creating a bottleneck for new project implementation, according to a climate advisory group.

The Turkish government is waiting on parliament to approve the country’s long-awaited Climate Law, but is still planning to launch the pilot phase of its emissions trading system (ETS) in 2026, with offsets to be admitted after two years, the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference in Izmir heard on Wednesday.

Some of the country's biggest wind and solar battery facilities will be built in NSW central west after state awards grid access rights to more than 7 GW of projects.

The post Forrest and key CIS projects win big as NSW grants grid access to giant wind, solar, and battery facilities appeared first on RenewEconomy.

Microsoft has continued its carbon removal credit buying spree, signing a three-year offtake deal for up to 3 million improved forest management (IFM) credits in the US from a project developer that has already snagged a deal with Meta, the owner of Facebook.

Germany needs its own “bureaucracy reduction law” for the energy industry, said the sector’s main national trade association on Tuesday, as it also called for a new fleet of gas-fired power plants to be a priority for the incoming government.

A developer producing renewable natural gas from coal bed seams in Wyoming, which also sequesters CO2 long-term, is touting the project’s dual environmental benefits and aiming to sell carbon credits for $100 per tonne in a few years’ time.

Punjab province in Pakistan has launched a pilot Green Credit Programme in a bid to promote environmenally friendly activities and incentivise citizens to carry out green interventions in sectors including, air, land, water, waste management, and biodiversity conservation.

A Russian drone attack has inflicted tens of millions of pounds of damage to the site of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, according to experts. The photographer Julia Kochetova has gained access to the area

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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UK government have launched a partnership aimed at advancing nature conservation efforts in the Asia Pacific region, with the development of biodiversity credit markets among the key planned activities.

In a blow to the government's clean energy ambitions, a company cancels a huge windfarm off Yorkshire.

In a blow to the government's clean energy ambitions, a company cancels a huge windfarm off Yorkshire.

Auctions for sovereign carbon credits eligible for international Article 6 trade, initially due in early 2025, have been delayed to allow more time for voluntary demand to develop, and for guarantees against supply-side risk to be put in place, according to the organisers of the planned sales.

The EU's most senior climate official said on Wednesday that a legislative proposal on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) could come in the fourth quarter of this year, adding that if Article 6 credits were included in any EU compliance carbon mechanism, the bloc would adopt a cautious approach.

A committee of UK politicians has urged the government to stamp out speculation that it is uncertain about its commitment to its biodiversity net gain (BNG) policy.

Microsoft single-handedly turned April into the largest month by volume to date in the durable carbon removal (CDR) sector, as the tech giant wrestles its 2030 commitment to become carbon negative with the boom in artificial intelligence.

Trials will test ways to block sunlight and slow climate crisis that threatens to trigger catastrophic tipping points

Real-world geoengineering experiments spanning the globe from the Arctic to the Great Barrier Reef are being funded by the UK government. They will test sun-reflecting particles in the stratosphere, brightening reflective clouds using sprays of seawater and pumping water on to sea ice to thicken it.

Getting this “critical missing scientific data” is vital with the Earth nearing several catastrophic climate tipping points, said the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria), the government agency backing the plan. If demonstrated to be safe, geoengineering could temporarily cool the planet and give more time to tackle the root cause of the climate crisis: the burning of fossil fuels.

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Voluntary carbon standard Verra has ruled out incorporating elements of the Clean Cooking & Climate Consortium’s (4C) high-integrity cookstoves methodology into its own standards, with the organisation’s CEO telling Carbon Pulse it is instead proceeding with its VM0050 methodology, which has secured the stamp of approval from the ICVCM.

Feeding the world sustainably is an incredibly complex challenge, yet some people are trying to sell us a bucolic fairytale

The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be a fire-prone landscape. But sheep, cattle and ponies have made it so. They selectively browse out tree seedlings, preventing the return of temperate rainforest, which is extremely difficult to burn. In dry weather, the moor grass, bracken and heather covering the deforested landscape are tinder.

The plume of carbon dioxide and smoke released this week is one of the many impacts of livestock grazing. But several recent films, alongside celebrities, politicians, billionaires and far-right podcasts, seek to persuade us that cattle and sheep are good for the atmosphere and the living planet. This story, wrapped in romantic cottagecore, is now the most active and seductive frontier of climate-science denial. It is heavily promoted by the meat industry, which is as ruthless and machiavellian as the fossil fuel industry. It sows confusion among people desperately seeking to do the right thing in an age of misinformation.

George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist

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A major steel company has partnered with a Malaysia-based investment holding company to explore carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) technologies aimed at reducing emissions from its steel operations.