- Fri 00:54A major India-headquartered offset project developer has sold off its wholly-owned accreditation services firm even before operationalising it, as market participants labelled the endeavour a conflict of interest, Carbon Pulse has learned.
- Fri 00:49A new international carbon offsetting code from the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI), as well as eventual obligations under the UN aviation sector offsetting scheme, are reshaping voluntary carbon market (VCM) demand, panellists said during a Thursday webinar.
- Fri 00:24Long-term offtake agreements are critical to unlocking capital and scaling engineered CO2 removal (CDR) technologies, experts said Thursday, warning that expectations of falling prices may be misplaced as the burgeoning market enters delivery phase.
- Thu 23:43The Biodiversity Credit Alliance (BCA) released on Thursday a revised edition of its High-level Principles to Guide the Biodiversity Credit Market, featuring 21 principles covering the certification process for biodiversity credits, the role of Indigenous Peoples and local communities, and the governance of this emerging market.
- Thu 21:00A study published Thursday suggests that co-practising enhanced rock weathering (ERW) near geologic carbon sequestration sites could serve as a prewarning system for CO2 leakage while also mitigating seepage.
- Thu 20:44The Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), a best-practices-sharing group comprising 144 central banks, published on Wednesday its first report on the effects of short-term (2025-2030) climate policy scenarios over GDP, trade, unemployment, inflation, and other financial and economic outcomes.
- Thu 18:31A ‘brutal reality’ is coming to many project developers of durable carbon removal (CDR) because buyers are increasingly baulking at the high price of credits, a new survey has found.
- Thu 17:21Indonesia could fetch higher prices and driver bigger emissions reductions by developing a more sophisticated carbon market framework, according to industry group IETA.
- Thu 16:29Challenge accepted - A growing group of influential voluntary carbon market participants have urged the greater use of the sector to address Scope 3 emissions. A joint statement issued by VCMI, now has backing from the International Chamber of Commerce, We Mean Business Coalition, The Nature Conservancy, Emergent, Verra, Carbon Market Institute (CMI), Anthesis Group, Patch, CNaught, Climate Impact Partners, GenZero, and Puro.earth. The collective want more organisations to sign up to the Scope 3 'challenge' to push for greater carbon credit use and pressure governments and corporate leaders to adopt more supportive policies for the market.
- Thu 16:25The carbon removals market will not scale without clear regulatory frameworks, targeted public support, and a mix of engineered and nature-based approaches, speakers told the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference in Izmir.
- Thu 16:07A Web3 carbon startup has announced it will open source its digital infrastructure, also unveiling a new venture to help sustainability teams meet reporting and regulatory requirements.
- Thu 15:17Only a minuscule fraction of the deep seafloor has been visually observed over the past 70 years, with scientists defining the lack of knowledge "a critical problem" as interest in ocean mining grows.
- Thu 15:13US-based tech giant Google on Thursday announced carbon credit deals for the equivalent of 1 million tonnes of CO2e over the next century from a commercial cooling project in Indonesia and a landfill activity in Brazil.
- Thu 15:01India is emerging as a front-runner in the global race to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, as enhanced rock weathering (ERW) startups working with smallholder farmers and plantation estates bet on the South Asian country’s basalt-rich geology and vast agricultural terrain to scale durable carbon removals.
- Thu 14:45National pledges to the Paris Agreement are often disconnected from national policy and investment plans because they are developed by consultants rather than integrated into government processes, a former EU minister told the Carbon Forward Turkiye conference on Thursday.
- Thu 13:24India has released a draft taxonomy to help channel as much as $3 trillion into climate-aligned infrastructure and adaptation efforts, as it pushes to close a widening funding gap for its net zero transition, as per a press release this week.
- Thu 11:20Japanese goings-on - Tokyo-based developer Faeger has teamed up with a manufacturing subsidiary of the Toyota group to promote sustainable agriculture and carbon neutrality in the Tohoku region, it announced Thursday. Faeger said it will work with Toyota Motor East Japan to expand local production and consumption of carbon credits and agricultural products, without disclosing a specific target. In a separate release, carbon trading platform operator Carbon EX said it has supported measuring instrument company Nihon Denkei to develop a J-Credit initiative, from project registration to credit issuance. A total of 108 J-Credits were generated from Nihon Denkei's rice-focused project.
- Thu 10:55A group of carbon market governance bodies and participants on Thursday called on national governments to recognise and support voluntary climate action by companies, saying it can work alongside official efforts under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6 framework.
- Thu 10:23Indonesia's environment ministry on Thursday signed a mutual recognition agreement (MRA) with Gold Standard, a move that will help enable Indonesian carbon projects to access international markets.
- Thu 09:49Indonesia this week launched a new nature-based fund with an initial allocation of $83 million that is expected to trap at least 128 mln tonnes of CO2 by the end of the decade.
- Thu 09:01A lack of capacity and the small-scale of potential emissions reductions are holding Pacific Island nations back from fully participating in Article 6 mechanisms, according to market participants.
- Thu 08:53The Australian carbon ecosystem is set to strengthen and grow off the back of renewed policy certainty, despite deep wells of frustration from project developers over the slow method development process.
- Thu 07:55The development of clean ammonia is “the best thing we can do” to cut Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions, the chairman of an Australian gas giant told his company's annual general meeting Thursday.
- Thu 07:43Energy giant ExxonMobil has signed a long-term offtake agreement with a Japanese trading house for roughly 250,000 tonnes of low-carbon ammonia per year, the companies announced Thursday.
- Thu 06:31Indigenous engagement in carbon projects needs to go further, be more than a box-ticking exercise, and be implemented from the get-go in order to design the most effective projects without damaging biodiversity, a conference heard this week.
- Thu 06:00Multiple carbon market participants have responded to a call for input on the standards that underpin the new Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), welcoming the progress made already this year, but citing concerns with some of the draft documents published ahead of a crunch meeting of UNFCCC officials next week.
- Thu 05:32South Korea's 2050 target for blue carbon sequestration should be achievable, considering the country's track record in seaweed restoration, according to a paper published this week.
- Thu 04:36Test the water - Seoul-based developer Ecoeye recently held an initial consultation meeting with stakeholders in Vietnam to discuss the potential of refrigerant recovery and recycling projects in the Southeast Asian country, particularly through carbon credit mechanisms, according to a statement released Thursday. Ecoeye said it plans to formulate methodologies, refine project proposals, and establish collaborations with local stakeholders in the future, supporting the Vietnamese government in developing the country's carbon market.
- Thu 03:48Climate cash – ANZ Bank’s climate finance spend came to A$21.64 bln ($13.97 bln) in H1 2025, the bank said on Thursday in its interim results, exceeding its 2025 target of A$18.5 bln. This brings its total climate finance spend or facilitated funding to A$60.6 bln since Apr. 1, 2023 – against a 2030 target to fund or facilitate A$100 bln. This spend includes initiatives to cut emissions, protect nature, increase access to affordable housing, and promote financial wellbeing, the bank said.
- Thu 02:53A stocktake of the first 18 months of Vietnam and Indonesia's Just Energy Transition Partnerships (JETPs) has found less progress in some areas than hoped.
- Thu 01:54Green zone – The NSW government has given the green light to a multi-billion dollar 10 renewable energy projects investment, which will connect to its Central-West Orana Renewable Energy Zone, the Australian state government announced on Thursday. With a combined capacity of 7.15 GW, the developments will avoid 10.29 MtCO2e of emissions annually. The projects are a mix of wind, solar, and battery storage, including a 1,332 MW wind farm. Last month, the NSW government announced that the REZ project was proceeding, with the help of A$750 mln ($484 mln) of funding from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation.
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