COP29: Carbon markets need to be fixed but are no quick fix for climate crisis
At the COP29 climate conference in Baku, negotiators need to fix Article 6 carbon markets but, most importantly, they need to fix the world’s failure to slash emissions.
Billionauts’ space tourism and Mars fantasies need to be pulled back to Earth
Space has become the final frontier for tourism. But is it responsible during a climate crisis for the super-rich to play billionauts and boldly go where no billionaire has gone before in search of a Planet B? Tech billionaire and pioneering space tourist Jared Isaacman is back and he is on a mission to boldly …
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(E)mission improbable: Five weird and unworkable carbon offsetting ideas
What do camels, whales and breast-fed babies have in common? They’ve all been put forward as ways to offset emissions. We delve into some of the weirdest carbon crediting ideas and explain why they do not work for the climate.
Hot issues: Battle for the climate at the ballot box
Despite voters’ clear concern about rising temperatures and their support for more ambitious climate action, the EU and other elections this year risk empowering political forces hostile to green policies. What can activists and concerned citizens do?
Oxy’s plans for “net-zero oil” and carbon removal offsets spell trouble for the climate – report
The net-zero strategy of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) relies heavily on unproven carbon removal technologies to camouflage its fossil fuel emissions and those of its customers while expanding its oil and gas production, a new investigation reveals.
2030 climate targets of over 50 top corporations significantly off track to keep within 1.5°C limit
At a time when global carbon emissions need to be almost halved by 2030, 51 major corporations’ climate commitments amount only to reducing their median carbon footprint by as little as 30%, reveals the 2024 Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor. Tighter regulations from governments are needed to raise the bar, both for companies which are taking insufficient action, and those who are not doing anything at all.
CRCF: The EU’s carbon removal certification failure
The EU’s lacklustre attempt to forge a certification system for carbon removals is so riddled with holes that the process needs to be rebooted to avoid doing more harm than good.
EU’s underwhelming 2040 climate target shifts responsibility to future generations
EU’s underwhelming 2040 climate target shifts responsibility to future generations
COP28: Warming up to the challenge of record temperatures
Carbon Market Watch will be at this year’s climate change conference (COP28) in Dubai to demand, along with civil society allies, that major polluters speed up their decarbonisation and turn back the dial on accelerating global heating.
European Parliament inches towards improving Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF)
The European Parliament has raised the bar on the proposed legislation for regulating carbon removals but the EU is still far away from a framework that would truly benefit the climate.
