Argentina’s national government is unlikely to introduce regulations to boost demand in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), so provinces are taking the lead to legislate GHG mitigation measures, local experts have told Carbon Pulse.

While some real estate managers are taking climate action, only one of those surveyed in a recent study has concrete plans to strip fossil fuel infrastructure from its buildings, according to new research from a UK non-profit.

A little help from kelp - Northern Portugal’s kelp forests store almost 16,500 tonnes of carbon and sequester nearly 1,900 tonnes annually, putting them on par with the country’s better-known blue carbon ecosystems when measured by area, new research has found. A team led by Portugal’s Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (MARE) and the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) carried out in situ surveys along a 90-km stretch of the country’s northern Atlantic coast, focusing on the dominant subtidal species Saccorhiza polyschides and Laminaria hyperborea. While saltmarshes account for the majority of the country’s blue carbon stock and sequestration in absolute terms, the study found that kelp forests rival or exceed them and seagrass meadows on a per-hectare basis. The findings highlight the potential for kelp to contribute to climate mitigation strategies, with the authors noting that the habitat has so far been largely excluded from formal carbon offset frameworks due to uncertainties over sequestration permanence, export pathways, and monitoring standards. The authors emphasised that large portions of the Portuguese coastline remain unstudied and that national datasets for saltmarshes and seagrasses are incomplete and outdated, omitting key northern estuaries. They called for expanded in situ surveys, refined export and burial estimates, and better integration of field data with large-scale models.

Voluntary carbon and Article 6 markets could provide Ukraine with a fast, flexible route to attract international green finance, without waiting for the implementation of a full compliance emissions trading scheme.

Low-concentration methane emissions from dairy livestock can be eliminated at a commercial scale, according to the findings from a real-world field trial of new technology in Denmark.

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is the most promising carbon removal pathway to limit global warming to 1.5C and avoid the early closure of young coal plants by retrofitting them with the technology, a new report has found.

The fast-rising industry of carbon accountants is looking to professionalise itself, bringing international best practices, technical alignment, and regulation to a role that is still largely taught on the job – much like a game of ‘Chinese whispers’.

Offtakes take off - Offtake deals are trending upwards, MSCI Carbon Markets has found. In the first half of 2025, it tracked more than 55 offtake commitments for high-quality nature-based carbon projects - almost triple the number in H1 2024. Most deals remained private, and of those made public, Microsoft was the largest, contracting over 35 mln tonnes in the period. Offtakes commanded an average of $50/t, about three times the average spot price for similar project types.

Carbon removal (CDR) credit sales and clean fuel production credits turned Colorado-based renewables fuels company profitable in the second quarter of this year.

Tech's ESG accounting gaps - Service providers of artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft and Google should be mandated to not only disclose their direct and supply chain emissions but the emissions stemming from their client work too, according to the Enabled Emissions Movement (EEM), founded by three former Microsoft employees. Many of the world's largest tech companies are helping fossil fuel clients to boost their yields and expand operations using AI tools, leading to increased fossil fuel extraction, but these 'enabled emissions' are not reported in tech company reporting. The EEM founders argue that such accounting gaps allow tech companies to present themselves as ESG leaders whilst avoiding accountability for how their tools are used. Such firms could be under-reporting their total Scope 3 (indirect) carbon footprints by 200%, they argue. (edie.net)

The calculated growth rates for primary forests under a UK-based standard are generally more conservative than those for secondary forests, according to a technical report released this week.

The government of Zimbabwe plans to set up a loss and damage fund financed by proceeds from carbon credit trading, with the aim of helping communities recover from the impacts of climate change.

Carbon credits issued under the new Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) are to be formally considered for CORSIA, after an expert Article 6 body requested ICAO to clarify how new UNFCCC units may be integrated into the international aviation offsetting scheme.

A climate tech startup has become the first Indian company to secure Gold Standard-certified carbon credits for sustainable rice farming across thousands of farms in the state of Telangana.

Going solar - The Global Carbon Council (GCC) has issued 173,783 carbon credits to solar projects in Turkiye’s Kahramankazan, Milas, and Sinanpasa regions, covering monitoring periods from 2018-24. Certified with Environmental No-net-harm (E+), Social No-net-harm (S+), SDG+ Silver, and CORSIA-Pilot Phase eligibility, these projects contribute clean electricity to the national grid while creating local jobs and reducing reliance on fossil fuels, the standard said. Turkiye now has 27 GCC-registered projects, with over 634,000 credits issued to date, and more than 1 mln in the issuance pipeline.

Human rights considered - A group of Japanese companies have developed a framework that incorporates human rights impacts in the quality assessments of carbon credits, according to a statement released Tuesday by Tokyo Gas. The framework was jointly formulated by the gas supplier, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, and Nippon Koei. Tokyo Gas said it will add the new criteria to its internal assessments of carbon credits to improve the offset reliability.  

You can't measure what you don't map - The Carbon Removal Standards Initiative has published a map that broadly tracks activity across the CDR ecosystem. The effort captures integrated projects and ideas that physically embed inside existing sectors of the economy and support non-carbon goals of such sectors, which the group said is needed to help build familiarity, trust, and scale in the industry.