On Monday, delegates gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan gave a green-light to carbon credit quality standards — guardrails for how international carbon crediting projects will work
 
 
							The COP29 summit’s ability to reach consensus on urgent climate action also remains in shrouded in doubt, given several prominent world leaders are planning to skip the event
 
 
							The global-average temperature for the past 12 months was an estimated 1.62°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial average, scientists have found
 
 
							Delhi's air quality is likely to remain in the "upper end" of the "very poor" category for the remainder of the week
 
 
							Japan recorded its hottest summer on record this year, with temperatures between June and August 1.76 degrees Celsius above normal
 
 
							Fifty of the world’s top billionaires emit more carbon in just 90 minutes than the average person does in their entire lifetime, a new study says
 
 
							The countries primarily responsible for the financing crunch are, ironically, the two biggest economies of the world — the United States and China
 
 
							The agency expects carmakers to continue working towards making cheaper and innovative EVs — with China firmly in the lead. It also predicts a hit to Europe’s GDP from the EV transition
 
 
							The rising losses stem from China’s vulnerability to climate change, with higher temperatures magnifying the intensity of storms and rainfall saturating cities on its long coast
 
 
							Processing, transporting and storing liquefied natural gas makes it a more carbon-unfriendly energy source than coal, a new study says
 
 
							The authors of a new report say the blazes have sparked significant shifts in tree cover and carbon storage
 
 
							UN Secretary General António Guterres says digital technologies help to ‘deepen distrust and fuel polarisation’