Atlas for all – The carbon data platform Sylvera announced a partnership with Cecil, a nature data platform, last week, in which Cecil will host Sylvera’s Biomass Atlas dataset, a tool to quantify forest biomass. The companies also announced that the Biomass Atlas is now available to the public via Cecil and is intended to help guide carbon ratings and help organisations monitor plant biomass across individual sites or entire portfolios. The atlas uses ground reference datasets and satellite data to price tree canopy estimates and above ground biomass density globally.

California regulator ARB reported an issuance of nearly 511,100 compliance-eligible offsets over the last two weeks, growing the year-to-date (YtD) distribution to 15 million.

Canadian regulators and sustainability leaders on Tuesday said the pause on mandatory climate-risk disclosure is creating a competitiveness problem for domestic companies, urging firms to continue preparing for reporting requirements even as political and regulatory uncertainty persists.

With all eyes on Brazil at the Amazon COP, there were still plenty of climate and carbon market developments from nearly a dozen other Latin American countries over the course of the two weeks. 

Cash for cows – New Zealand-based agtech company Ruminant BioTech has raised NZ$17 mln ($9.7 mln) in a Series A funding round, it announced on LinkedIn Wednesday. Led by existing investor Rosrain Investments and Cultivate Ventures, the round also included cash from financial services company Marex as well as additional investment from the public-private partnership AgriZero. The New Zealand Herald reported that the funding round valued the company at NZ$132 mln. Ruminant BioTech has developed a bolus for cattle, in which the orally-administered capsule suppresses methane emissions from the animal’s digestive tract.  The company said the funding round will enable it to launch its technology in Australia and New Zealand next year, as well as advance regulatory approvals in Brazil, Canada, Europe, the UK, and the US, and enter the carbon market.

Energy companies being sued for climate damages by two local Colorado governments submitted their final plea Tuesday asking the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) to take up a case that could set a nationwide precedent for climate liability cases against oil and gas producers.

Assisted migration of tree species for reforestation and restoration is becoming increasingly important amid Canada’s forest-adaptation challenges, a panel of experts said on Tuesday, as the risks of proactively moving seed sources are far smaller than the risks of leaving climate-stressed stands to fail amid wildfire, pests, and rapid warming.

The Q4 California-Quebec current vintage carbon auction sold at a more than $1 discount to secondary market prices the day before last week's sale, settling below $29.

Mining companies and carbon removal (CDR) buyers warned on Tuesday that CDR projects at mine sites must overcome complex measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) rules, policy gaps, and social-licence concerns as stakeholders push the technology toward billlion-tonne-scale deployment.

Project developers can pay a fee of up to $50,000 to fast-track their verification approval requests through Verra, the standard body announced Wednesday.

COP30 was a tale of two climate summits: on the one side, divisive negotiations over deals that largely reaffirmed existing climate goals; but on the other, a stronger-than-ever show of how action is already spreading faster and farther.

The non-market approaches of Article 6.8 promote a needs-based, non-correspondingly adjusted source of climate finance that complements the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) and Article 6.2, an African negotiator said on the sidelines of COP30.

A US-based startup working to reduce agricultural supply chain emissions has raised $4 million in Series A financing to scale its operations, it said last week.

Discussions on international carbon trading at COP30 exposed tensions about the function of a technical review process, key for transparency in new Paris Agreement markets, which may have significant implications for those seeking to sell reductions from Article 5.2 REDD+ programmes via Article 6.

ICAO has announced it is in the process of revising the CORSIA Annual Sector’s Growth Factor (SGF) for the year 2024.

A Canadian agricultural lender has invested in a UK-based enhanced rock weathering (ERW) company, in a deal the firm said would support a threefold scale-up of its operations in Canada in 2026.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D) administration launched on Tuesday an appeal of an October court decision that ordered the state to release regulations for its planned cap-and-invest programme, dubbed NYCI.