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The FIFA 2022 World Cup is currently underway in Qatar, a small desert nation with the highest carbon emissions per capita in the world and generates most of its revenue from the extraction and sale of oil.

Criticisms raised by a whistleblower who described Australia’s carbon credit system a fraud that is hurting the environment and wasted more than $1bn in taxpayer funding have been supported in a new report commissioned by the Albanese government.

Australia’s carbon trading market has been booming over the past week with traded volumes leaping more than 50%, as big corporates race to secure offsets ahead of Labor’s pending industrial emissions reforms.

Washington state’s estimated revenue from a new carbon credit system for the first five years has increased by $1.6bn, because of rising credit values and plans to auction a portion of future allowances.

The London Stock Exchange has set listing rules for companies that finance carbon offset projects to grow the market and enhance transparency.

Bursa Malaysia will launch a voluntary carbon market (VCM) by the end of 2022. This will help increase transparency and enable companies to purchase carbon credits to offset their emissions.

Cambodia has earned $11.6 million from 2016 to 2020 by selling carbon credits in the global voluntary carbon market.

The City of New Westminster in western Canada recently received 26.4 million Canadian dollar ($20.6 million) after selling the credits it had earned under the BC Low Carbon Fuel Standard (BCLFS).

Tesla’s carbon credits revenue came in at $344 million in Q2, down 49% from $679 million in Q1, and a 3% decline from the same period in 2021.

Indonesia’s carbon credit export potential in the forestry sector has reached Rp2.6 trillion (US$172.6 million) per year, said Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati at the Sustainable Finance for Climate Transition Roundtable, a G20 side event held on Ju