Most forest policies in Canada aren't enough to incentivise climate adaptation by private landowners, even as government-funded programmes accelerate Indigenous-led conservation on public lands, recent studies have suggested. 

Participation in voluntary and compliance nature markets in the UK continued to grow last year, although challenges remain in advancing projects, securing buyers, and stacking different types of credits, according to a report.

Carbon and biodiversity crediting projects have significant conflicts, alongside potential synergies, largely because carbon credits are more easily traded, a paper has said.

The gap in value widened between the highest-quality credits and much of the rest of the voluntary carbon market in December, while the integrity of retirements continued to increase at the end of 2025, according to analysts at a rating agency.

Retirements in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) fell by 4.5% in 2025, 8 million down on 2024's total, after December activity failed to live up to levels seen in previous years.

Drawing board - Turkmenistan is eyeing potential carbon credit generation as part of a draft National Forest Programme for 2026-30, the government said on Wednesday. The plan, developed by Turkmenistan’s environment ministry with support from UN Development Programme, treats forests as carbon sinks while stepping up efforts to restore natural woodlands and combat desertification. It also introduces state forest inventories and digital monitoring using satellites to underpin a national forest database. Entrepreneurs will be allowed to lease forest fund plots for fruit, oil-bearing, and medicinal crops, while land ownership remains with the state. Turkmenistan is Central Asia's most carbon-intensive economy and has little carbon market infrastructure in place.

Carbon farming - Indore-based Auri Grow India has launched an AI-powered carbon credit agritech platform called CarbonKrishi that aims to help Indian farmers estimate, report, and generate carbon credits based on sustainable farming practices, the company announced. The company plans to onboard about 100,000 farmers across agriculturally intensive regions, with estimates suggesting the platform could generate gross carbon credit value of INR 160-500 mln ($1.9-6 mln) annually, depending on verification outcomes and global carbon prices. The system uses AI analytics, satellite imagery, crop and soil data, and digital reporting to assess farm-level carbon impact, and the initiative will help integrate Indian agriculture into the global carbon credit ecosystem, the company said.

The Colombian government expects to publish a series of long-anticipated regulations ahead of the mid-year presidential elections that will affect the country’s compliance and voluntary carbon markets, its long-awaited emissions trading system (ETS), and international carbon credit transfers under Article 6.

Voluntary corporate spending on carbon credits grew in 2025, although the voluntary carbon market (VCM) remains relatively small, per a report released this week on VCM strategies.