Brazil’s environment minister told @mcivillini.bsky.social she has advocated for a roadmap to end fossil fuels to be agreed at COP30: “The worst possible thing would be for us to not plan for this transition.”

Europe’s green flying plans depend on used cooking oil. But can we be sure about what’s in the barrel? #earthinvestigations @journalismfund.bsky.social

The UN’s shipping body has agreed to charge shipowners who don’t cut their emissions intensity by 30% by 2035. The $380/tonne penalty will fund green fuels, port upgrades & a just transition for maritime workers.

The AI rush will fuel demand for gas and coal to power data centres. The IEA also says that associated emissions *could* be more than offset by the positive impact of AI adoption. But that is hypothetical in contrast with the real emissions generated www.climatechangenews.com/2025/04/10/p...

NEW: Carbon credit auditors suspended for failures in sham rice-farming offsets Verra has taken unprecedented action against four certification bodies that failed to spot integrity issues with the projects. But worthless credits still need to be compensated.

After Trump pulled money from the Green Climate Fund, Germany and Saudi faced off over who should plug the funding gap www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/21/a...

Close to $500m a year in grant-based climate funding risk disappearing under Trump's attack of USAID. As a senior humanitarian official told me, "anything that talks even marginally about climate change doesn’t have a future" with this administration. www.climatechangenews.com/2025/02/05/n...

Shell, linked to nearly 2M sham carbon credits, avoids paying compensation Shell backed methane-cutting offset projects in China—but they failed to reduce emissions as claimed. The projects were axed by Verra, the world's largest registry. As yet, Verra has taken no action against Shell.

Breaking my year-long hiatus here with my latest Investigation on Shell's greenwashing efforts. The firm sold "carbon neutral" LNG using, in part, sham Chinese carbon credits that failed to cut emissions and may have not existed at all on the ground. www.climatechangenews.com/2024/12/19/s...

“No one can say which kind of insects or fake meat you have to eat, which kind of injections you have to get. A libertarian state is very important.” Sure *that's* why Samuele Landi lives on a barge in international waters, not the two fraud convictions against him

The UAE has just been rapidly hoovering up land so it can generate carbon offsets to greenwash its fossil fuel expansion. They are being advised by an Italian fugitive...... Absolute bombshell story by @mcivillini.bsky.social @climatehome.bsky.social www.climatechangenews.com/2023/11/23/m...

Cop26 saw pledges galore. Big promises on forest protection, methane reduction and sustainable finance. Two years on, I've taken an in-depth look at how they are holding up. www.climatechangenews.com/2023/11/03/f...