Listen up - A new four-part podcast series examines the implications of global temperatures surpassing 1.5C, some 10 years after the Paris Agreement enshrined that target. Titled Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5C, the documentary series explores the realities of a warming world and how to respond as climate impacts intensify. Laurie Laybourn, Overshoot’s writer and narrator, said the world is now moving beyond the 1.5C threshold after years of warnings went unheeded. The series aims to explain how this point was reached and offer insights on how to navigate the challenges ahead, launching one month before COP30 in Brazil. It features stories from climate negotiators involved in setting the 1.5C goal in 2015, individuals discovering flawed climate risk assumptions in financial systems, and engineers whose carbon capture ideas were adopted by fossil fuel companies. Voices of resilience from Easter Islanders, champion sailors, and global experts highlight ways to move towards a better climate future. The four episodes cover:

• Uncharted Territory – the origins of the 1.5C goal, the inevitability of overshoot, and whether catastrophe is inevitable.
• Carbon Suckers – the overreliance on speculative carbon removal technologies and possible alternatives.
• The Minsky Moment – economic blind spots that underestimate climate risk and how to improve foresight.
• Derailment – how escalating climate chaos is fuelling denialism and undermining action, and how to build societal resilience.

A new academic study has called for the use of placebo testing to vet REDD+ baseline-setting methods, arguing that current forecasting approaches underpinning billions of dollars in carbon credits are far less reliable than techniques based on observed data.

A 42-year field experiment in the US has found that soil carbon gains induced by fertilisation on retired croplands can persist for more than three decades after nutrient inputs are halted, easing concerns that cutting nitrogen pollution could inadvertently trigger carbon releases.

Canada risks losing its early lead in carbon removal (CDR) unless Ottawa expands procurement and support beyond direct air capture (DAC), developers and policymakers warned at the Carbon Removal Forum during Toronto Climate Week on Thursday.

A forestry services organisation will deploy a marketplace next week for certified Spanish carbon credits from forest reforestation and conservation projects through digital, public, and programmed auctions.

City carbon credits – In Brazil, public employees of Curitiba, Parana, took part in a closing workshop with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), marking the end of a pilot project on productive restoration. The programme assessed the benefits of expanding urban agriculture in the city and the potential creation of a municipal carbon credit market. Generated through ecological practices in agriculture and composting, the credits could be worth R$19.8 mln ($3.7 mln) over 20 years, according to Curitiba’s estimates. The idea of a municipal carbon credit market has previously been proposed by a city council member, while the next step of the UNEP partnership will be the inauguration of an urban farm on Oct. 18.

Misleading 'like-for-like' principle – The 'like-for-like' principle to frame emissions and removals as equivalent undermines the integrity of climate policies and ignores the full reach of unquantifiable climate impacts from GHG emissions,argues Carbon Market Watch (CMW). Anthropogenic emissions cannot truly be balanced by temporary removals, given their limited permanence and reliability, and so removals should be the last resort to manage emissions that cannot be avoided or reduced, the NGO claims. The like-for-like logic risks relying on the cheapest available removals and is particularly damaging when abused to avoid emissions reductions, particularly for short-lived pollutants such as methane, it says. And while nature-based solutions like restoring forests are key to enhancing biodiversity and addressing climate change, they should be kept separate to emissions reductions, the NGO argues. CMW calls for more precise policy to define where removals are applicable, to push for reductions above all, and to ensure only high-quality removals are used.

Three major carbon crediting bodies have taken major steps to integrate their systems with Indonesia’s national carbon market framework, with Verra signing a Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) with the government and Gold Standard launching detailed implementation guidance and a pilot programme.

In your hands - Indonesia's Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq this week urged private companies to push for UN recognition for carbon credits from peatland restoration, Indonesia Business Post reported. He said peatlands’ carbon storage capacity is up to 10 times greater than terrestrial forests, estimating national reserves at around 55-56 bln tonnes of CO2e. Indonesia wants to restore 3.3 mln ha of the country’s 13.4 mln ha of peatland, with firms expected to rehabilitate areas within their concessions and surrounding buffer zones.

A UK-based carbon removal crediting body is seeking feedback on a draft methodology for mangrove restoration activities.

A group of large companies has penned a letter to the European Commission raising concerns about the impact that the announced delay of the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) might have on many businesses across the bloc.

A climate technology company has announced plans to build its first large-scale industrial biochar carbon removal facility in the Netherlands.

Verra has launched a new digital form to simplify how project developers request Core Carbon Principles (CCP) labels for carbon credits issued by the voluntary standard.