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A review of Australia’s controversial carbon credit system has recommended significant changes to how it is managed, but rejected claims that the scheme lacks integrity and is not delivering real cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

Forests in New South Wales are continuing to be cleared to a point that some could become net carbon emitters in coming decades, according to a report released in December by the New South Wales’ Natural Resource Commission.

Europe’s carbon market and national scheme for heating and transport brought Germany a record 13.2 billion euros in 2022, the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) said on Tuesday.

Taiwan aims to reduce carbon emissions by 23-25% by 2030 compared with 2005 levels in pursuit of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, the National Development Council said Wednesday at a press conference.

Finland could be subject to billions of euros in costs as the diminishing capacity of forests as a carbon sink has undermined its effort to meet the sink target set by the EU.

China’s national emissions trading scheme (ETS), the world’s largest carbon market covering a seventh of emissions globally, hit 10 billion yuan (US$1.4 billion) in total transactions on Thursday.

A platform developed by Swiss university of Geneva that allows consumers to track the variations in the composition of the electricity mix used and to calculate the carbon footprint has come online.

EU member states and parliamentarians on Sunday reached a political deal to reform the bloc's carbon market, the key policy of its ambitions to cut emissions and invest in climate-friendly technologies.

The New Zealand government raised the country's 2023 Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) carbon allowance price and volume settings on December 15 to levels significantly below those advised by its national climate body.

The European Union took a step forward to imposing a carbon tax on imports of energy-intensive goods such as steel and cement after striking a deal with EU members on Tuesday.

Bursa Malaysia launched the country’s first voluntary carbon market (VCM) on December 9, with the first carbon credit auction to take place next March.

Emissions from mining cryptocurrencies have skyrocketed, researchers reported in Scientific Reports. The carbon footprint of mining one Bitcoin multiplied 126 times from 2016 to 2021. In that window, Bitcoin mining caused an estimated $12 billion in globa