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20 April 2021 11:40 GMT Updated  20 April 2021 12:47 GMT OPINION: Key parts of the oil and gas industry have signaled their determination to play their part in trying to meet the Paris climate goals. ENERGY EXPLORED: SUBSCRIBE TO ACCELERATE Gain valuable insight into the global oil and gas industry's energy transition from Those at the forefront of change — such as Shell, Equinor, BP and Eni — are gradually stepping up investment in renewable power. They are also relying on significant use of carbon “offsets” to meet the net-zero emissions targets they are setting themselves. T...

Thu, 25th Feb 2021 13:23 (Repeats to add code. No change to text) * First carbon offset futures contracts to launch within weeks * Critics fear race to bottom * For factbox on carbon offsets, please click on By Susanna Twidale and Shadia Nasralla LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - An expected dash by big corporations for offsets to meet their climate targets has prompted financial exchanges to launch carbon futures contracts to capitalise on what could be a multi-billion dollar market. It's a step change. Carbon offsets, generated by emissions reduction projects, such as tree planting or shifts to le...

RPT-INSIGHT-Carbon offsets gird for lift-off as big money gets close to nature | Financial News

By Dr Gurinder Kaur* The United States new President Joe Biden on the first day of his term, after being sworn in, requested the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres to rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement, which Guterres accepted on the same day. He also welcomed the United States decision. Responding to the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015, the then United States President Barack Obama said that controlling global warming was the only common and commendable effort by all countries in the world. But the next the United States President Donald Trump, as soon as he took over the admi...

(Bloomberg) — The defining agreement to limit global warming might not have have happened without a drab meeting room.It was in December 1997 that officials…