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- Wed 00:47Colombian carbon and biodiversity standard Cercarbono on Tuesday released version 3.0 of its Integral M/LU-REDD+ methodology for public consultation, introducing its approach to jurisdictional programmes and criteria for project-level nesting.
- Brazil’s National Bank for Social and Economic Development (BNDES) has been left with “more questions than answers” following a public consultation on expanding homegrown carbon credit certification capacity, an official told a conference Tuesday.
- Tue 23:18Gas grab – Most of British Columbia’s (BC) 2024 CleanBC Industry funding went to oil and gas firms, with C$95.3 mln ($68.8 mln) of the total C$127.7 mln awarded for carbon capture and electrification in the Montney gas field, local media reported. The province says the money cuts emissions, but critics argue it subsidises profitable fossil fuel producers while BC remains far off its climate targets. An independent review of the programme is expected this autumn.
- Tue 23:15A new study has found that participation in a forest carbon scheme in Pennsylvania has been far lower than predicted by earlier surveys of landowners.
- Tue 23:14The Brazilian government is expecting to open a public consultation on how to issue Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) by September, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) told Carbon Pulse.
- Tue 23:04Integrating agendas – Countries from LATAM and the Caribbean should push a common agenda towards COP30, focusing on the integration of climate and biodiversity goals, said Irene Velez, Colombia's recently appointed environment and sustainable development minister, on Tuesday. Speaking at a regional ministerial meeting in Mexico City, Velez said this includes integrating the climate and biodiversity agendas, phasing out fossil fuels, and reform of the international financial system. Her predecessor and president of the biodiversity COP16 in Cali, Susana Muhamad, also pushed to integrate the three Rio Conventions.
- Tue 22:55BOEM and bust – Days after the Trump administration halted work on a wind farm off the coast of Rhode Island, Bloomberg reported Monday that the administration is now working to halt the development of a project planned near Maryland. Last week, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued an order requiring Orsted to stop construction on the Rhode Island wind farm even after it was 80% completed. Now, BOEM has plans to remand and vacate a permit granted to the $6 bln Maryland Offshore Wind Project being developed by US Wind. The permit was initially approved by the Biden administration in 2024 and was set to begin construction next year.
- Tue 22:48US loses wind in its sails – Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) reported Tuesday that investments in US renewable energy fell 36% in H1 2025 compared to H2 2024. It was the largest drop among all major regions over the span, with committed spending down $20.5 bln. BNEF analysts attribute the drop to the industry’s response to the election of President Donald Trump, as developers rushed to begin construction toward the end of 2024 to lock in access to tax credits. By contrast, the EU saw renewable energy investments rise by 63%, or $30 bln, over the same period. These figures support the idea that companies are reallocating capital out of the US and into Europe, analysts said.
- Tue 22:25The Brazilian Comptroller General’s Office (CGU) on Monday recommended looking into the creation of a federal jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) programme as part of the country’s emissions trading system (ETS) plans.
- A Canadian fertiliser company has signed a multi-pronged agreement with a commodity trading house in which the companies will trade natural gas, carbon credits, and diesel exhaust fluid (DEF).
- The Brazilian Petroleum and Gas Institute (IBP), an industry NGO, will by mid-October submit guidelines to the government for regulating the national carbon market, according to local media.
- Tue 21:24The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) Net-Zero Framework could avoid a tide of fragmented, localised carbon prices for shipping if adopted in October, according to IMO Secretary-General Arsenio Dominguez.
- Tue 19:37A low-carbon ammonia facility slated for the US Gulf Coast region with carbon capture and storage (CCS) has been scrapped as the two companies involved in the project seek to focus their attention and investments elsewhere, according to a Tuesday announcement.
- Tue 15:02US technology firm Apple must withdraw adverts in Germany that claim three of its smartwatches are 'carbon neutral', after a court ruling on Tuesday upheld a complaint from environmentalists that claimed the publicity was “blatant greenwashing”.
- Tue 15:00Buyers in the Frontier coalition have signed a $31.2 million offtake agreement with a Nova Scotia-based carbon removal (CDR) developer to scale ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), it announced Tuesday.
- Tue 13:42Three of the world's largest tech companies have committed over €3 million to help scale peatland restoration in Ireland, marking the first big transaction under a newly launched voluntary certification programme.
- Tue 13:00A Colorado-based carbon verification firm announced Tuesday the release of an AI-powered soil mapping tool that was recently approved by Verra to be used in agricultural land management (ALM) methodologies under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) programme.
- Tue 12:55A new class of carbon credits is emerging to finance the early retirement of coal-fired power plants which proponents say could channel billions into accelerating the energy transition in developing countries, but critics warn they will face high costs, fragmented standards, and questions over integrity.
- Tue 12:21Rice revolution – US-based developer Mitti Labs has partnered with The Nature Conservancy’s Promoting Regenerative and No-Burn Agriculture (PRANA) programme to accelerate the shift towards climate-smart rice farming in northwest India. Using AI-powered satellite monitoring and on-ground measurement to scale practices such as alternate wetting and drying, direct seeded rice, and no-burn crop residue management, the programme aims to reach 650,000 farmers across more than 6,000 villages in 2025, save 500 bln litres of water, while cutting methane emissions from rice cultivation. Mitti Labs’ digital MRV technology now covers 10 mln ha of the country’s rice farmland with an aim to generate high-quality carbon credits, the company said.
- Tue 11:58The carbon credit market is set for explosive growth even in a scenario where the sector doesn't undergo a high-integrity transition, finds a new report.
- Tue 01:21
On the SOFOFA - Chile’s ministers of economy, finance, public works, and mining on Monday met with the Federation of Chilean Industry (SOFOFA) under the banner “Environmental Agenda: Sustainable Investment with a Vision for the Future”. The Minister of Environment was not in attendance. The meeting outlined the importance of optimising and reducing processing times for sectoral permits without compromising regulatory standards. It also stressed engagement with the private sector in Voluntary Early Participation Agreements, which are governed by the economy ministry’s Climate Change Agency (CORFO). SOFOFA has in the past offered critical feedback to the environment ministry’s baseline-and-credit scheme regulations, arguing that they would be overly burdensome and duplicative of the country’s CO2 tax. The regulations entered into force this month.
- Tue 01:20Time to opine on CCS – California regulator ARB is soliciting feedback to inform its implementation of SB 905, which requires the agency to create a Carbon Capture, Removal, Utilization, and Storage Program to evaluate, demonstrate, and regulate CCUS and CDR projects and technology. The feedback window will be open for 45 days until Oct. 6. SB 905 was passed in Sep. 2022, but has faced challenges to acquiring resources for implementation, ARB leadership said in 2024.
- Tue 01:02
Hosting, deferred – Delegates to Argentina’s Federal Environment Council (COFEMA) ran out of time at a meeting last week to present the status of the country’s seven CDM projects requesting transition to the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), Carbon Pulse understands – contrary to several local reports. Argentina is nonetheless actively working on crafting its ‘host country participation requirements’ document to facilitate this transition and broader participation in the PACM, as per comments by Nazareno Castillo, a top official at the National Environment Secretariat, speaking at a conference in the province of Cordoba last month. The South American country also lacks other crucial elements of PACM participation, such as a procedure to issue Letters of Authorisation.
