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Climate change and “unsustainable human activities” are driving “unprecedented changes” to mountains and glaciers, threatening access to fresh water for more than two billion people, a UN report warns.

Taiwan is set to enter its first year of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) adoption, with Songshan, Kaohsiung, and Taoyuan airports scheduled to begin SAF blending for domestic carriers in the first half of the year.

Amazon, the retail giant in the U.S., announced the launch of its carbon credit service through its Sustainability Exchange platform on March 19. This service aims to help its supply chain partners achieve decarbonization.

The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) released the draft revision of its "Corporate Net-Zero Standard." The revision proposes changes to the recognition of Scope 3 emission reduction and suggests that separate targets be set for Scope 1 and Scope 2.

China’s climate ambition at this year’s “two sessions”, which ended on 11 March, was relatively subdued, with analysts expecting economic concerns to trump climate action in the year ahead.

Germany and the EU need a short-term strategy for enabling the necessary ramp-up of carbon dioxide removals (CDR), said the think tank German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in a report.

Germany’s likely next coalition government has agreed to a substantial electricity price cut to relieve households and companies and honour national and European climate targets.

Nearly a tenth of global climate finance could be under threat as US president Donald Trump’s aid cuts risk wiping out huge swathes of spending overseas.

The harvesting and burning of forest biomass to produce energy continues to surge. This growth comes despite scientists’ warnings of the industry’s harm to the climate and its contribution to deforestation — increasingly in the tropics.

Carbon Forward Asia, held from March 4 to 5 in Singapore, featured a panel on the second day titled “Removals: Putting the Net into Net-Zero,” which explored the opportunities and challenges for advancing carbon removal in Asia.