The region advanced toward the operationalisation of Paris Agreement Article 6 over the past week, as governments moved to update bilateral frameworks, clarify domestic rules, and position themselves for participation in international carbon markets.

Grass is greener - Green Earth Group has completed a feasibility study for the Namizimu Afforestation, Reforestation & Agroforestry Carbon Project in Southern Malawi, confirming the project is technically and financially viable and ready to advance, the developer said Monday. It now aims to secure a Letter of Approval (LoA) from Malawi under Article 6, enabling alignment with the country's National Carbon Framework and future international credit transfers. Over the next six months, Green Earth and partner GEP said they will prioritise three actions: launching a 100-hectare pilot to test costs and seedling survival; finalising project boundaries and obtaining the LoA; and initiating formal stakeholder consultations following FPIC standards. These steps will prepare the project for full Project Design Document development and Verra registration, which Green Earth said positions Namizimu as a scalable template for replication across other forestry reserves in Malawi.

The Netherlands is launching a new government subsidy programme aimed at accelerating the development of carbon removal technologies, marking one of Europe’s clearest public funding efforts to support carbon removal (CDR).

Futures for Phase 1 CORSIA slid last week despite the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) publishing country-by-country offsetting data, which reaffirmed emissions would be higher than previously expected for 2024-26 period of the scheme.

Taiwan’s space agency, in collaboration with leading universities, launched a satellite-based monitoring system for biodiversity-linked carbon credit projects, it said in a statement Monday.

Malaysia aims to list a national forest conservation financing framework on the UN's non-market approaches platform by late 2026, potentially announcing it around the COP31 climate summit, a senior official told Carbon Pulse.

A new framework has been launched to define the best-practice criteria for high-integrity nature projects, aiming to reduce delivery and credibility risks for investors and buyers in an increasingly scrutinised voluntary carbon market.