Industry and corporate representatives on Wednesday called for Canadian governments to use their purchasing power and long-term market signals to help expand demand for low-carbon materials, noting that large buyers play a major role in shaping markets for sustainable production.

A panel of carbon market experts touted the importance of standard-setting bodies in the near term to attendees at the Trellis Impact 2025 conference on Wednesday.

A Mexican state government has validated over 100 climate mitigation and adaptation measures this week as part of a comprehensive policy update aimed at expanding renewable energy capacity and achieving net zero emissions by 2050 from a power sector that accounts for more than 70% of the state's GHG output.

An Argentine company has achieved the country’s first certification for a carbon credit project through improved forest management (IFM) techniques.

A Pacific Northwest-based non-profit has announced $3.8 million in funding to support wildfire recovery and reforestation across Oregon and Montana. 

A Dutch carbon project developer has launched a new asset management division as part of plans to raise €100 million by 2030 for verified nature-based and biodiversity-focused investments.

Canada will invest C$11 million ($7.9 mln) in carbon capture, utilisation, and storage (CCUS) advancement across the country.

Indigenous equity partnerships are emerging as a cornerstone of Canada’s decarbonisation and clean energy agenda, stakeholders said on Wednesday, as governments, investors, and developers increasingly view collaboration with First Nations as key to both project certainty and competitiveness.

A carbon removal (CDR) registry has certified a new methodology update that expands the scope of its feedstock accounting rules and adds new methods for demonstrating eligibility. 

G20 countries, which represent 85% of global GDP, lack credible plans to ramp up carbon removals in their UN climate pledges, according to leading climate institutes.

A Vancouver-based climate tech funder on Wednesday committed more than C$3 million ($2.2 mln) to four Canadian carbon removal (CDR) ventures.

The tools available to researchers and civil society organisations that monitor methane super-emission events caused by oil and gas installations are growing by the day, four non-profits told a webinar on Wednesday afternoon.

The Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative has proposed a major overhaul of its framework that would significantly roll back signatory commitments, including the removal of all references to achieving net zero by 2050 and the elimination of requirements to set interim portfolio emissions targets.

The EU needs to consider sub-national carbon markets to give Canadian exporters a fair shot at reducing their CBAM costs, a Toronto-based carbon market analyst told Carbon Pulse.

A US multinational technology company announced Tuesday that it has developed a process that converts agricultural and forestry waste into renewable biocrude fuels for the maritime and aviation industries.

A US federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing a major food manufacturer of misleading consumers with “climate neutral certified” claims tied to its use of carbon offsets.

The health threats of climate change have reached unprecedented levels - exposing more people to heatwaves, boosting the risk of wildfires and disease transmission, and increasingly straining the economy, with stronger adaptation measures urgently needed, said a medical journal report.

Mounting policy uncertainty is stalling industrial decarbonisation efforts, financiers warned during a panel this week, even as both public and private investors continue to back emissions-cutting projects amid tightening global competition and shifting market incentives.

A US voluntary carbon crediting programme said Tuesday it has updated its blue carbon methodology to strengthen social and environmental safeguards and clarify additionality and verification procedures.

International climate adaptation finance flows currently amount to only 8% of developing countries’ estimated needs to adapt to the impacts of rising temperatures, according to the UN’s environment agency’s annual assessment, though countries are starting to put in place adaptation plans.

Meaty litigation – Advocacy group Mighty Earth has accused JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, of making false claims about its commitment to reach net zero emissions by 2040, Reuters reported on Tuesday. The NGO has filed a lawsuit in the US, alleging that the Brazil-headquartered company made “material omissions” regarding the environmental harm caused by its operations and violated the D.C. Consumer Protection Procedures Act. JBS said it “categorically rejects” the accusations of misleading targets and false pretences. (Reuters)

The world is on track for 2.6C warming, unless investment jumps 30% from current levels to average $4.3 trillion a year in clean energy between now and 2060, warned a report by Wood Mackenzie.

A Canadian industrial mineralisation company signed an offtake agreement Wednesday with Microsoft for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of carbon removal (CDR).

Just four Global North countries, led by the US, have largely filled the gap to meet rising global oil and gas demand since 2015, contrary to their Paris Agreement pledges, according to an NGO.

Venezuela's Second Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) was published on Tuesday by the UNFCCC, outlining the country's 2025-30 climate commitments without referring to any carbon market, taxing, or pricing mechanisms to achieve them – a notable omission given regional momentum around carbon markets in Latin America.

Canada’s fragmented pricing systems are not delivering emission reductions and are failing to provide long-term investment signals, as credit oversupply and political divisions cloud the country’s path beyond 2030, stakeholders warned during a conference Tuesday.

Charmed – CDR developer Charm Industrial has partnered with Canadian dMRV provider Mangrove Systems, with carbon removals from September fully running on the latter's infrastructure, the companies announced Tuesday. All verified credits issued to Charm going forward will be via Mangrove's dMRV. Charm initially started out building its own carbon accounting system for MRV, titled Ledger, specifically for its operations. However, scaling the company led to a need for shared MRV infrastructure it could onboard companies onto, it said. Charm added that early outcomes from the partnership include efficiency gains through the credit supply chain.

The world’s wealthiest people are generating more carbon pollution in a single day than the poorest half of humanity produce in an entire year, according to a new report warning that the high-carbon lifestyles and investments of the super-rich are driving the planet towards climate disaster.

Nvidia's effort to decarbonise its supply chain is falling behind its peers in the AI sector, amid rising concerns over the climate impact of chip production, according to a new report.