Colourful feedback – Rainbow, a voluntary carbon standard body, is seeking feedback on version 7.0 of its Standard Rules and Procedures Manual, which aligns with key frameworks, including ICVCM requirements, the CRCF Regulation and Implementing Rules, and CORSIA requirements. The consultation is open until Dec. 28, and the final version of the standard will be published by early Feb. 2026.

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.

A European airline will seek to compensate its emissions next year with a balanced portfolio of up to 1 million tonnes of carbon credits, a portion of which from carbon removals, but needs more regulatory clarity before purchasing CORSIA-eligible credits, an industry conference heard on Wednesday.

Barclay’s take on COP30 – COP30 revealed a “quiet shift”, less captivated by the next breakthrough and more focused on the specifics of meeting global climate goals, Barclays’ Daniel Hanna wrote in a blog post. In Hanna’s view, the summit highlighted Brazil’s Tropical Forest Forever Facility as a model for scalable, place based finance. The conference underscored three things relevant to green finance: 1) Target the real bottlenecks that block capital, 2) Create financing models that can be replicated, 3) Anchor everything in data, integrity and governance.

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.

India industrial biochar – India’s Jain Irrigation Systems has announced plans to establish what it calls the country’s first industrial-scale biochar project to convert agricultural and food industry residues, such as mango kernels, maize cobs, and cotton stalks, into biochar and carbon credits. The project aims to process around 100,000 tonnes of residues annually to produce roughly 25,000 tonnes of biochar and generate over 50,000 carbon credits. According to the company, this initiative will provide farmers with an extra income stream, reduce open burning of agro-waste, and support sustainable agriculture and carbon sequestration efforts.

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

North-Indian state of Himachal Pradesh this week partnered with a Singapore-based developer to roll out a 50,000-hectare afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) project aimed at boosting farmer incomes.

A new framework has been launched to value the full climate contributions a company makes on its journey to net zero, including investing in carbon credits.

Ethiopia and Singapore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on carbon credits during a visit of the Asian country's prime minister to Addis Ababa this week.

A Tokyo-listed technology company on Wednesday said it has developed an “ocean digital twin” that can significantly cut the time and cost of generating blue carbon credits, as Japan steps up efforts to scale restoration of seagrass and seaweed beds along its coast.

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.