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US biofuel credit (RIN) prices will continue to face pressure if the EPA does not hike the next three years’ worth of Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) quotas in an upcoming final rulemaking, a major investment bank said Tuesday.

Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes this week signed legislation to reduce costs for firms utilising voluntary carbon credits and position the Brazilian city as a centre of the green economy.

The British Columbia government on Tuesday put the province’s fuel switching offset protocol (FSOP) under review because emissions reductions under the methodology may no longer be additional to business-as-usual practice.

The delayed German national security strategy was published Wednesday and includes key climate pledges including a promise for a 'substantial contribution' to international climate finance, rapid operationalisation of the global loss and damage finance mechanism, and a doubling down on the creation of an climate club between countries.

Payne is credited for helping save whales from extinction by recording their songs and galvanizing a global movement

Roger Payne, the US scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. He was 88.

Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip to Bermuda when a navy engineer provided him with a recording of curious underwater sounds documented while listening for Russian submarines. Payne identified the haunting tones as songs whales sing to one another.

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When Peter Singer first published Animal Liberation in 1975, he wasn’t aware of climate change. But the new book, Animal Liberation Now, argues eating plants will reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University Licensed as Creative Commons – attribution, no derivatives.

Environmental activists sued EPA to update regulations, after thousands of people sickened from Deepwater Horizon cleanup

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced more stringent rules governing offshore oil spill response, amid continuing concerns about the effects on public health and wildlife from chemical disasters, including BP’s Deepwater Horizon explosion in 2010.

The federal agency, which announced the update on Monday, had not updated its rule regulating the chemicals used to break up offshore oil slicks since 1994.

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Experts weighed the merits of including agriculture emissions in the EU ETS at an event in Brussels on Wednesday, with panellists agreeing that the market mechanism could be a stronger policy tool than what is in place now to lower the bloc's farming emissions, which have not fallen since 2005.

Peak global oil demand is in sight amid surging demand for electric vehicles, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday, bringing forward the date 

The Saudi company set up to drive voluntary carbon market (VCM) growth sold 2.2 mln carbon credits in an auction held in Kenya on Wednesday, with the units clearing at a price of 23.50 Saudi riyal per tonne, equivalent to nearly $6.30, and sold to 16 mostly domestic firms.

Shell promised to deliver more value with less emissions on Wednesday, pledging to spend $10-15 billion of capital investment on low carbon technology between 2023-25, after angering climate activists by abandoning plans to cut oil production each year for the rest of the decade.

A Saudi company established to scale up voluntary carbon market involvement across the Global South has announced it will launch an Article 6-ready exchange in 2024 and aims to establish one of the largest global markets by the end of the decade, as it hosted its second auction of credits on Wednesday.

Information commissioner had demanded that the water company publish 53 documents last year

Southern Water is refusing demands by the information watchdog to publish internal communications between board members relating to discussions about raw sewage discharges.

The company, which was fined £90m in 2021 for discharging billions of litres of raw sewage into protected coastal waters, was ordered to publish 53 documents by the information commissioner at the end of last year because of the “substantial and weighty public interest”.

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European carbon prices extended their rally for a sixth day on Wednesday as traders continued to test the strength of short positions ahead of the publication of the weekly Commitment of Traders report, while gas and power markets reversed course after five days of gains.

In a bid to eliminate fears of double counting and bring liquidity back to the crypto carbon space after a troubled year, an emergent blockchain solution, 'the two-way bridge', is gathering momentum.

A new international carbon standard registry that aims to sharply cut the cost of project development was launched in South Africa on Wednesday.

As a coal-fired power station is readied to meet the exploding demand for portable units, let’s face it: this is just extravagance

Fifteen years ago, it was the wood burner: an unnecessary middle-class indulgence that, despite causing untold environmental damage, started popping up in homes across the country. They became symbolic of a certain affluence that allows a privileged few to live in optimum comfort at all times.

Now there’s a new kid on the block: the portable air-conditioning unit. As we adjust to a changing climate, with mid-summer temperatures regularly exceeding 25C and occasionally reaching 35C or even higher, this is the new “must have”. Sales of air-conditioning units were up more than 500% during last year’s heatwave and, according to property website Rightmove, searches for homes with air-conditioning tripled over the same period. At between £300 and £1,000 a pop, they’re not cheap – but they certainly make three or four weeks of good UK weather each year easier to handle.

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Germany's government has agreed on a watered down version of a law to cut emissions from heating amid fears over excessive costs, a move likely to apply bullish pressure to the nation's fuels carbon pricing system as a result of delaying the transition.

BeZero Carbon and ACX have expanded their carbon credit ratings partnership to the Middle East, an offering buyers in the Gulf States access to offset grades.

Taiwan is planning to utilise idle public lands to generate forest carbon credits, with two projects in the pipeline that will be launched next year at the earliest, according to the island’s newly-appointed finance minister.