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October 28, 2025
Oil and gas giant TotalEnergies found guilty of greenwashing
French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies has been found by a Paris court to have deceived consumers by overstating its climate pledges and its role as an active player in the fight against global warming.
October 22, 2025Environmental groups slam Amazon oil drilling approval ahead of COP30
Brazil’s environment agency, IBAMA, has approved an environmental license for state-owned oil company Petrobras to drill for oil near the mouth of the Amazon River.
October 07, 2025Indonesia to bring 50 million carbon credits to COP30 via global standard partnerships
Indonesia’s government has taken another major step toward integrating with global carbon credit systems. On Oct. 2, it signed a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with Verra, one of the world’s leading carbon credit certification bodies.
October 03, 2025Brazil leads push for novel forest finance mechanism ahead of COP30 summit
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced that his nation will invest the first $1 billion in the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), a planned $125 billion fund that Lula and Brazilian finance experts first described in 2023.
September 25, 2025UN Climate Summit: China pledges 10% emission cut, EU delays on climate goal
Nearly 100 countries at the United Nations Climate Summit announced that they would to finalize, or set new Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) before COP30 takes place this November. China, the world’s largest carbon emitter, pledged for the first
September 24, 2025The EU proposes delaying anti-deforestation law, again
The European Commission has proposed pushing back the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) for another year, to December 2026, citing concerns that its IT system is not yet ready to handle the demands that the regulation would place on it.
September 17, 2025Singapore advances NDC with first nature-based carbon credit purchase
Singapore announced on September 16 that it will invest SGD 76.4 million (about USD 59.8 million) to procure its first batch of cross-border, nature-based carbon credits, enough to offset nearly 4% of the nation’s emissions.
September 12, 2025Q&A: A ‘holistic’ approach to the long-awaited ASEAN Power Grid
Matthew David Wittenstein of the UN ESCAP talks about how regional power connectivity can move forward in a fair and sustainable way
September 03, 2025EVs are booming, but the grid can’t keep up: Chosen Digital’s global fix
Electric vehicles are growing fast, but the energy systems behind them are not. For Worapoj Chosen, founder and CEO of Chosen Digital, this is a serious risk that no one is fixing.
August 26, 2025Nestlé, PepsiCo join drive for deforestation-free palm oil in Indonesia’s Aceh
Major brands including Nestlé, PepsiCo and Unilever have launched the Aceh Sustainable Palm Oil Working Group to align with a new road map for deforestation-free palm oil in the Indonesian province.