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Tokyo Stock Exchange will begin trading carbon credits on October 11, launching Japan's first exchange-based carbon market as the world's fifth-largest emitter moves to address climate change.

Amazon announced that it will help fund the direct air capture technology by purchasing 250,000 tons of carbon removal over the next decade.

China’s carbon price continues to rise, setting a fresh record on Aug. 11 as Beijing pushes power generators to obtain sufficient permits for the year.

Poor quality data and supply shortages remain key hurdles for China’s national carbon ETS. The world’s largest carbon market has seen lower-than-expected trading volume and weak carbon prices in the past year.

Hedge fund manager Per Lekander, who has been historically bullish on carbon prices, is predicting that carbon credit prices will drop as Europe speeds up energy transition.

Voluntary carbon market is gaining momentum in Africa, with Tanzania revealing that it will receive over $20 billion investment for carbon offset credits.

Exxon Mobil agreed to buy Denbury for $4.9 billion on July 13, to accelerate its energy transition business with an established CO2 storage operation.

To boost the trading of carbon credits in the country, India’s Ministry of Power has notified the Carbon Credit Market Scheme. Within just a few days ago, the government releasing a draft document for establishing a carbon credits market in India.

It is now impossible to ask China to set the same carbon price as the EU, as the two sides' carbon prices were set under different development conditions and emission goals, said a Chinese climate official, who also criticized EU's new carbon tariff as "u

More than 2.2 million tonnes of carbon credits were sold on June 14 at an auction organized by the Regional Voluntary Carbon Market Co. in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, the Saudi firm said.