Calling savanna experts – Voluntary carbon standard operator Verra has issued a request for proposals, seeking independent experts to review a proposed methodology for savanna fire management under its Verified Carbon Standard programme. The methodology, based on Australian Indigenous practices, aims to generate credits by avoiding methane and nitrous oxide emissions in global savannas with more than 10% canopy cover, as well as increasing CO2 sequestration by avoiding intense savanna fires. Proposals are requested by Dec. 16, 2025.

Carbon removal (CDR) buyers’ club Frontier will pay a Bavaria-based biogas company $41 million to remove 96,000 tonnes of CO2 between 2027 and 2030, according to a Tuesday press release.

A UN body is seeking to procure up to over 83,000 voluntary carbon credits through a tender that closes in early December.

A Brazilian federal court has temporarily suspended a move from the Amazonas state government that would permit carbon project development in conservation areas of the state, national media has reported.

Carbon removal expertise - The IPCC panel agreed on the outline last month of the '2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories'. The report will be a single methodology report, and will address topics including soil carbon sinks, carbon removal in coastal wetlands, CO2 capture from combustion, direct air capture, CO2 utilisation, CO2 transport, and CO2 injection and storage. Over 150 experts are expected to participate in the writing process, to be completed by 2027. These contributors will be selected by the Task Force Bureau taking into account scientific and technical expertise, and the first lead authors' meeting will be held in Rome in Apr. 2o26.

Blue carbon in Australia – Bentley’s Environmental Foundation, a subsidiary of Bentley Motors, announced funding today for a blue-carbon project to restore locally extinct crayweed forests off Sydney’s South Bondi Reef. The initiative, delivered with Seatrees, Operation Crayweed and the Sydney Institute of Marine Science, will restore two sites totalling about 12,000 sq ft by transplanting healthy adult crayweed onto deforested reef using biodegradable mesh mats. Bentley frames the effort as part of its Beyond100+ sustainability strategy launched in 2023, while Seatrees calls the expansion a significant step in scaling global coastal-ecosystem restoration.

A global law firm and UK-based carbon brokerage have implemented a multi-year carbon removals procurement programme that capitalises long-term credit purchases as a balance sheet asset rather than a profit-and-loss cost.

Variable ERW – Soil type in enhanced rock weathering (ERW) carbon removal projects is as important as rock type, according to a recent study by the Carbon Drawdown Initiative. Following two years of ERW experiments in Germany, the researchers found alkalinity export that drives CO2 removal is highly variable, and soil context can completely change the outcome. They determined which materials best boost alkalinity, and that acidic soils export more additional alkalinity. Only a fraction of theoretical CDR seemed to be realised quickly – showing that though ERW remains promising, better models and experience are needed to really predict how much CO2 will be removed and for how long. The institute has started its next experiments involving more soil and rock variations, and is offering scientists access to more than 1,000 samples from the 2-year experiment.

Carbon removal (CDR) is no longer a fallback but a central pillar of climate strategy, though major barriers to scale persist, with biochar emerging as the most viable near-term pathway, according to a wide-ranging publication that examined how CDR could deliver nearly 10 billion tonnes of CO2 annually by 2050.

Corporates are planning to boost carbon credit spending this decade, but long-term investment in the voluntary sector is being hampered by regulatory uncertainty, a survey has found.

An investment fund is investing in an agtech firm in India after securing $375 million to date from institutional investors, it announced Tuesday.

EIB boost - Swedish utility Vaxjo Energi has secured advisory support from the European Investment Bank (EIB) through the European Commission’s Innovation Fund Project Development Assistance (PDA) programme. The PDA support will help Vaxjo advance POSCLIMB, a planned BECCS project at its Sandviksverket biomass-fired combined heat and power plant in Sweden. It will help mature the project technically and financially ahead of a possible application to the Innovation Fund, with the aim of capturing and permanently storing up to 200,000 tonnes of biogenic CO2 annually for sale as carbon credits.

A US-based climate consultancy has proposed a new format for reporting electricity emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, arguing that current market-based Scope 2 methods no longer reflect actual impact or support decision-making.

New position - Renat Heuberger has been elected chairman of European soil carbon company eAgronom, he announced on LinkedIn. Heuberger also holds the role of CEO of climate consultancy Terra Impact Ventures, and chairman of fintech startup MPower Ventures, as well as author of book the Carbonparadox, according to his profile. eAgronom works with thousands of farmers across Europe on regenerative agriculture, generating carbon removals in the process.

A US-based agtech company has launched a pilot to test its carbon measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) platform on grazing lands, it announced last week.

2026 will be a crunch year for implementing UN carbon markets, after Article 6 decisions at COP30 cleared up key administrative uncertainties such as funding shortages and the closure of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and affirmed previous agreements on crediting standards and trading rules, according to experts. 

Africa could generate nearly $50 billion in revenue from carbon removal (CDR) markets by 2030, with the continent’s theoretical CDR potential across various methods far exceeding global projections for 2035, according to a report published this week.

VCS credits for SA-le – WeAct will be auctioning VCS credits from its South African grasslands management project (VCS2710) next month, the developer said in a press release. The sale of the nearly 0.7 mln high-integrity units will take place from Dec. 8-10 on Xpansiv CBL’s platform and feature a $12/t floor price, with the credits eligible for compliance with the South African CO2 tax as well as voluntary use. The auction will be a closed, single-round, pay-as-bid format, with the minimum bid size set at 10,000 units. Australia-based WeAct added that higher priced bids will receive the most recent vintages, and buyers need to hold both a Verra and CBL account. The deadline to register for the auction is 1500 UTC on Dec. 3.