The architect of the Paris Agreement says Brazil will not be influenced by fossil fuel companies like previous petrostate COP hosts, even if the Latin American nation is looking to expand exploration of oil in the Amazon rainforest.
Three new irrigation dams have been approved in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, overlapping with two carbon credit projects. The new developments join five hydropower projects that are already eating into these same forests.
The environmental watchdog published analysis warning that there is a "wide trend" of carbon capture, use and storage initiatives in Malaysia linked to fossil fuel expansion. It is one of 19 organisations backing a memorandum to the Senate calling for a controversial CCUS bill to be stopped.