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- Tue 00:21Last week saw voluntary carbon market (VCM) stakeholders welcome Colombia’s CO2 tax results, while Chile debuted and promoted market regulations, Mexico announced a major soil carbon deal, and anticipation built for Brazil’s ETS and Tropical Forests Forever Fund (TFFF).
- Mon 23:56Carbon removal projects that underdeliver credits are better suited to provide a transparent accounting of delivery shortfalls than carbon reduction projects, although reduction projects have the advantage of maturity, consultants argued Monday.
- Mon 22:40Two of Brazil’s six terrestrial biomes – the Atlantic Forest and Pampa – have a combined annual capacity to supply 100 million REDD+ credits, as well as over 4 mln afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) credits, according to a report published Monday.
- Mon 19:00The BioCarbon nature and carbon standard has launched an initiative to study digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) solutions, partially to support the standard’s ambitions to align with the CORSIA international aviation offsetting scheme and the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
- Voluntary carbon credit prices continued to trend sideways in secondary trade, though the sector was buoyed by a splurge of expensive soil removal deals, and healthier activity in the primary market.
- Mon 17:01A Calgary-headquartered carbon offset provider announced Monday the acquisition of a long-standing Switzerland-based project developer and trader.
- Mon 16:52Farmers in China are more likely to sell voluntary offsets online if they have larger forest holdings and have received targeted training in carbon markets, according to new research.
- Mon 13:00A fund worth $50 million has launched a call for carbon projects that are to be certified under a new REDD+ standard.
- Mon 11:38Britain and the EU say they are open to discussions on aligning their carbon removal (CDR) policies, but are pursuing separate pathways for now until talks to link up their respective emissions trading schemes (ETSs) deliver, officials have said.
- Mon 10:34Europe's forests and land are storing less CO2 than anticipated, endangering the EU’s 2030 climate targets, according to an agency, but there is strong potential to turn this around for the future.
