From complexity to clarity: progress and potential in global carbon strategies

The failure of carbon offsets to cut planet-heating pollution is “not due to a few bad apples”, a review paper has found, but down to deep-seated systemic problems that incremental change will not solve.

Research over two decades has found “intractable” problems that have made carbon credits in most big programmes poor quality, according to the study. While the industry and diplomats have made efforts to improve the system, it found much-awaited rules agreed at a UN climate summit last year “did not substantially address the quality problem”.

Eliminating CO2 emissions from flying is going to be expensive, regardless of the solution the world adopts. But aviation also contributes to global warming through its non-CO2 effects. Those are mostly “contrails”, which I’ll explain in more detail soon. Getting rid of those could be incredibly cheap. So cheap that it’s difficult to understand why we don’t just go ahead and fix it.

Article by Trellis

The status of carbon-neutral claims made by Volkswagen, Nespresso and other companies has been thrown into doubt after Verra, the world’s largest carbon credit registry, concluded it had issued millions of excess credits to a contentious forest protection project based in Zimbabwe.

Article by Stock Titan

Diginex (NASDAQ: DGNX) launched diginexGHG on October 14, 2025 - an AI-automated Corporate Carbon Footprint solution certified to the GHG Protocol for Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions. The platform integrates with business systems, uses AI/ML to accelerate footprinting and reporting, and is built with Forward Earth collaboration to deliver rapid, actionable emissions insights.

Article by Dawn

The world’s tropical coral reefs have almost certainly crossed a point of no return as oceans warm beyond a level most cannot survive, a major scientific report announced on Monday. It is the first time scientists have declared that Earth has likely reached a so-called “tipping point” - a shift that could trigger massive and often permanent changes in the natural world.