It is hardly news that China has long been at the top of the global clean-tech manufacturing league. According to the latest IEA figures, between 60% and 85% (depending on the supply chains) of manu...
“The world can no longer avoid exceeding the 1.5°C threshold, and the consequences are already devastating: deadly floods, brutal heatwaves, uncontrolled wildfires, lives lost, economies c...
More than 9,000 participants and 200 exhibitors are expected at STEP by Pollutec, a new trade show dedicated to the ecological transition, taking place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1 an...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter On 14 September, the second high-level meeting of the new Open Coalition on Compliance C...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter To understand what is changing in European Carbon Capture and Storage, we need to start in Sl...
Humanity is doing too little, too late, when it comes to mitigating climate change. This was emphatically highlighted by UNEP, which, in its report Limiting Overshoot – Navigating Exceeda...
Yesterday, 15 September, the European Parliament voted on the revision of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU system that taxes the emissions contained in certain goods imported fr...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The EU's renewed opening to international carbon credits has moved, within four months, from ...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Italy has 11.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 39% of the country’s territory...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The European Commission has proposed auctioning 250 million additional EU Emissions Trad...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter On 17 July 2026, the European Commission issued a legislative proposal to overhaul the EU ETS...
On Friday 17 July, the European Commission presented its proposal to revise the Emissions Trading System (ETS), the EU’s carbon market, which since 2005 has helped halve emissions from th...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Despite adverse political headwinds and a general global retraction from climate action and m...
When the World Resources Institute tasked American researcher Marx Trexler with overseeing the world’s first CO₂ offsetting project, carbon credits were seen as little more than a philanthro...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Mundys, a leading Italian holding company managing airports and motorways primarily in E...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Within the framework of the new EU Regulation on Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF), t...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter During the week of May 18 to May 23, I was in Singapore for two of the most important carbon ...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Translating CO₂ emissions into economic and social value to help businesses and institution...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The question of whether transition credits constitute a viable tool for accelerating coal pha...
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Carbon credits are definitively shifting from being merely an accessory to corporate sus...