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- Fri 16:10Tech giant Meta offset its operations last year by purchasing carbon removal credits, but its reported Scope 3 emissions rose by some 1 million tonnes, highlighting the uphill path it faces in achieving net zero across its full value chain.
- Fri 14:36An Israel-based agricultural technology firm Wednesday announced a commercial insetting programme in the US aimed at generating durable carbon removal through fungi-based soil treatments.
- Fri 13:22The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has published its first ever draft national forest policy, setting out sweeping reforms to reconcile conservation and economic development in the world’s second largest tropical rainforest, while new technical guidelines on satellite monitoring and forest carbon inventory quality aim to underpin market credibility.
- Fri 12:33People farming land in Kenya’s Embu and Tharaka Nithi counties have not seen their maize yields decline since adopting regenerative and agroforestry methods, according to a report published this week.
- Fri 12:32The Brazilian state of Para is advancing plans to monetise jurisdictional carbon credits and manage results-based payments from its agreement with US-based non-profit Emergent, having recently launched expressions of interest to hire a technical consultant and a financial intermediary to assist with the process.
- Fri 08:54Singapore this week set out the process that project developers are to follow to generate Article 6 carbon credits under its bilateral deals in a series of technical annexes, while also publishing an eligibility list for Ghana.
- Fri 08:31A carbon removal buyers (CDR) coalition backed by several global tech companies announced Thursday it has set up an expert team to develop science-based criteria for nature-based solutions (NbS) projects.
- Growing and more interconnected carbon markets in Asia, leading with China, could help fill a $800 billion per year finance gap to help secure a more orderly net zero transition, according to a World Economic Forum report published this week.
- Fri 02:29Roughly one year after the Mexican state of Tamaulipas relaunched its carbon tax with a new offsetting mechanism, the state is now planning to raise the tax rate in an attempt to incentivise companies to use the mechanism to meet their tax obligation.
- Fri 01:55A REDD+ project in Para, Brazil aims by early 2026 to become the first Indigenous-led initiative to be issued Core Carbon Principle (CCP)-labelled credits under Verra’s revamped VM0048 methodology.
