- Wed 23:32
Farming carbon – Honda has partnered with Carbon by Indigo to purchase soil carbon removal credits representing 1,800 tonnes of CO2, the carmaker announced Wednesday. The deal supports around 150 US farmers across Alabama, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and South Carolina in adopting regenerative agriculture practices on 214,000 acres. The credits are verified by Aster Global Environmental Solutions and issued by the Climate Action Reserve. The project conserves approximately 69,000 gallons of water for every tonne of carbon removed, Honda said.
- Wed 23:31
ABC, easy as climate – Belgium will use COP30 to strengthen climate partnerships, pledging €5 mln to a new fund protecting the Congo Basin's tropical forests from EU ETS revenue, Belga News Agency reported. The amount is an initial tranche of its "ABC Plan" (Africa-Belgium-Climate). Separately, Belgium signed an MoU with Brazil to cooperate on green hydrogen, linking the Belgian Hydrogen Council, Flanders Investment & Trade, and the Brazilian Association of the Green Hydrogen Industry to assess a bilateral supply chain.
- Wed 21:54A new Central African forestry initiative is circumventing the carbon market in order to reward the people and communities who plant trees, rather than those that cause deforestation in the first place, according to a government official from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- Wed 21:17Brazil's national development bank at COP30 on Wednesday opened a call for proposals to structure a certification model for blue carbon projects, while also announcing R$1o million ($1.9 mln) for restoration in the Atlantic Forest.
- Wed 19:22Bolivia’s new centre-right administration is drafting a regulatory framework to support participation in voluntary and compliance carbon markets to channel climate finance into local communities, two officials said on Wednesday.
- Wed 17:41The Council of EU member states has adopted its negotiating mandate on a revision of the bloc's anti-deforestation law, and will push to delay the regulation by a year until Dec. 2026 to give companies more time to prepare.
- Wed 17:14Credits issued under all three scenarios of Verra’s jurisdictional REDD (J-REDD) methodology will be eligible for the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) badge, the Integrity Council of the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) said on Wednesday.
- The greater stability and private-sector integration in Article 6.2 make it more suited to durable carbon removals (CDR) than the Article 6.4 Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), according to the chief commercial officer at a removals standard.
- Wed 14:30AI is reshaping climate solutions by boosting forest-carbon modelling, troubleshooting complex systems, and applying climate-risk assessments across infrastructure sectors, according to experts speaking at a webinar on Tuesday.
- Wed 14:00Carbon removal industry stakeholders on Wednesday launched what they describe as the first openly available baseline contract intended to simplify and standardise durable CDR transactions.
- Wed 13:30Eight countries announced support on Wednesday for a Brazil-led initiative aimed at scaling billions of dollars in investment to restore farmland globally.
- Wed 13:00A US-based carbon removal (CDR) company is piloting an electrochemical process with Saudi Arabia’s water regulator to cut desalination emissions and enable permanent carbon removal across the Kingdom’s treatment network, it announced Wednesday.
- The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is on course to cease operations at the end of 2026, as parties in Belem appear to have finally agreed on a date to move on from the Kyoto Protocol-era crediting system.
- Wed 11:47Countries at the ongoing COP30 climate summit should take measures to help the agricultural sector transition towards sustainable practices, including by making funding more efficient, a seed trade organisation told Carbon Pulse.
- Wed 11:08A 10-year plan by the government of Gabon has raised $180 million in commitments for conservation investments to protect an additional 3.4 mln hectares of land.
- Day 9 at COP30 in Belem. It really is crunch time now. Brazil wants to force through a Belem Package of measures - made up of the hardest problems to solve like climate finance and fossil fuel phaseout - on Wednesday. Article 6 formalities could also well be wrapped up. Seasoned observers note with admiration how excellent the presidency has been so far, but there are still four days for fireworks.
- Wed 02:01G20 countries have the opportunity to collectively reduce 11 billion tonnes of C02e below expected levels by 2030 if they implement energy and methane mitigation goals agreed upon during the COP28 climate summit in 2023, according to analysis published Wednesday.
CP Daily News Ticker: 19 November 2025
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