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 ...

Trees would have to be planted on a vast proportion of global land mass to offset the carbon dioxide emissions from burning ...

Turning carbon offset credits into crypto tokens is the latest trend in attempted techno-fixes for climate change. One high-profile effort is backed by Adam Neumann, but experts are skeptical.

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.

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.

One carbon-offset forest in California that’s paid for by oil companies is west of Vann, in the northern part of the state. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) By Shane Coffield and James Randerson.

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.

Tech companies, including Google, Meta, and Microsoft, want to fight climate change with “nature-based carbon removal.” Is the tactic any better than carbon offset projects that have failed in ...

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

Stalled efforts to expand companies' use of carbon credits to offset greenhouse-gas emissions are raising the prospect that some will backtrack or abandon targets to shrink their carbon footprint.