By AFPEU member states and parliamentarians on Sunday announced an agreement for a major reform to the bloc's carbon market, the central plank of its ambitions to reduce emissions and invest in climate-friendly technologies.The deal aims to accelerat...

By AFPThe United Nations warned Tuesday that carbon emissions from shipping were growing, calling on the vast industry to scrap old, polluting vessels and upgrade infrastructure to speed up its green transition.The UN's trade and development agency U...

By AFPThe UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.Just in the past few months...

By AFPAustralia enshrined deeper cuts to carbon emissions in new legislation Thursday, aiming to shed its decade-long reputation as afossil-fuel-addicted climate laggard.Lawmakers in the lower house of parliament voted 89-55 in favour of a 43 percent...