Manulife worldwide - Canadian insurance company Manulife is launching Manulife Impact, a global network of restoration sites, working with community planting partners and nature restoration company Veritree. Manulife is Veritree’s first corporate partner to implement the latter’s smart forest technology at sites in Japan and the Philippines. To date, Manulife Impact Forests have restored 160 ha of land.  

Money for restoration - Brazil’s National Treasury has disbursed R$100 mln ($18.6 mln) to support the restoration of the Atlantic Forest in the country’s mid-west. The amount represents the first transfer from the second Eco Invest auction, a programme designed to scale up foreign investment in Brazil’s green economy. The beneficiary bank, Brazil-based Itau, said the total structured financing will enable the productive restoration of nearly 4,000 ha of degraded land in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The funds will cover soil preparation, planting, sustainable management, and the purchase of inputs for sugarcane cultivation at a sugar mill. The financing will have a two-year grace period and a seven-year term.

Existing US federal and state laws create potential regulatory obstacles for enhanced rock weathering (ERW) projects in Minnesota, while targeted legal reforms could help close gaps and enable the carbon dioxide removal pathway to scale, according to a new analysis.

A sustainable investment firm is investing $10 million into a US company that produces organic coconut sugar products in Indonesia.

A coalition of carbon removal buyers has facilitated $3.05 million in pre-purchases from two companies as part of its sixth round of advance credit buying.

A registry has certified a new protocol for CO2 removal through mangrove restoration, it announced Tuesday.

Guinness Global Investors has launched a fund focused on food, water, climate, waste, and land that is looking to rapidly build on its seed capital.

Limestone-based weathering - Dublin-based agritech startup Silicate Carbon expects to raise up to €15 mln in its next funding round in 2Q 2026 to help further develop its concept of carbon capture and using limestone to balance acidity in farming. Founder Maurice Bryson is focused on optimising the process and doing commercial pilots in the agricultural space, which will add limestone to soil, boosting soil productivity and removing CO2. (Business Post)

Papua New Guinea has introduced legal protections for project developers under newly gazetted carbon market regulations, including formal recognition of “secondary ownership” rights, a move aimed at reducing project risk in the forest-rich country.

Delivered - Australia’s AgriProve has delivered 30,145 Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) to the Peart family for their Jones and Blewett soil carbon projects in Queensland, marking what the developer claimed to be one of the largest single-farm soil carbon issuances achieved by a single farming operation under the ACCU scheme. The credits were issued after independent verification of increases in soil organic carbon across the family’s 4,800 ha grazing operation, achieved through long-term rotational grazing and pasture improvement. Project developer Corporate Carbon, together with its soil carbon spin-off Agriprove Solutions, have to deliver some 36.9 mln ACCUs, according to Clean Energy Regulator data.