Yet negotiations over a final rule book for bilateral deals, as well as a carbon-credit market with the imprimatur of the UN, went nowhere.Negotiators clashed over how much transparency to require.

Planting trees has plenty of benefits, but this popular carbon-removal method alone can't possibly counteract the ...

For carbon offset to be successful, the offset projects need to guarantee reduced emissions. Other barriers are the expensive equipment needed to measure the GHG being released into the ...

Australia's Red Meat Advisory Council dropped the 2030 climate neutral goal from its strategy last week. The decisions echo ...

When engaging with the voluntary carbon offset market, it is vitally important that well-intentioned measures to reduce the environmental impact of businesses are not the catalyst for further damage.

The flurry of agreements involve forest projects in five African nations, including Zimbabwe, where nearly 20% of the nation could come under the company’s control.

An internal Commission summary of the upcoming proposal, seen by Reuters, said the EU would be able to use "high-quality ...

Many carbon offset projects — including projects that claim to protect rainforests — aren't doing what they promise. Researchers worry the U.S. government's new guidelines have gaps.

Columnist and Environment Why carbon offsetting your flight isn't the answer. I always add the carbon offset option when buying a flight, but I had a sneaking suspicion I was being greenwashed.

An analysis of 18 large carbon-offsetting projects has found that most don't significantly reduce deforestation compared with areas not covered by the schemes Close Advertisement ...

Weighting carbon this way takes the price up from $51 a ton to about $246 a ton—we used calculations from University of California Santa Cruz’s efforts to equity-weigh the cost of its carbon ...