Warming-driven emissions from thawing permafrost, boreal wildfires and tropical wetlands could shorten the timeline to exceed Paris Agreement temperature thresholds by 20-25% by mid-century, even under ambitious emissions-cutting scenarios, according to a study.

A new study quantified the upper bound of additional climate mitigation achievable through optimised forest management, finding gains of 9.2-10.2 tonnes of CO2 per hectare by 2100 once all major carbon effects are accounted for.

Conversations on risk could be an ideal vehicle for bringing nature and biodiversity into the corporate consciousness, a panel heard during the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Tuesday.

A carbon removal standard has issued the world’s first certified carbon removal credits from river alkalinity enhancement (RAE), they announced Tuesday.

Gold Standard has risked creating “serious operational bottlenecks” that could undermine investor confidence after it said fresh vintage credits must be Paris-aligned, warns a lobby group for project developers.

Carbon crediting rules for enhanced rock weathering (ERW) on farmland may be relying on flawed monitoring approaches and should focus on tracking weathering-derived cations rather than carbon flows in soils, according to a recent academic review.

Data delivery - Chloris Geospatial is partnering with re.green, a developer of ecological restoration projects in the Amazon and Mata Atlantica, as announced on LinkedIn. By joining forces, the two aim to combine large-scale ecological restoration with advanced, space-borne data to make scaling nature-based projects more accurate, transparent, and reliable. It will see Chloris provide above-ground biomass data to re.green to support robust, high-quality dynamic baselines, aligned with recent carbon methodology requirements.    

WWF Singapore has launched a blue carbon initiative with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) to advance the development of nature-based solutions (NbS) projects in Asia.

Entitlement supply is a significant factor contributing to carbon price volatility in New Zealand's emissions market, while demand-side factors exert only limited and short-lived effects on carbon price fluctuations, a new study has found.

More of the blue - Fiji has launched a 10-year national Blue Economy Framework (2025-35) setting out policy direction for sustainable ocean-based development while protecting marine ecosystems. The framework aligns with Fiji’s National Development Plan, National Ocean Policy, and the Paris Agreement commitments, and aims to sustainably manage 100% of the country’s oceans while fully protecting at least 30% by 2030. It prioritises sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, climate-resilient marine tourism, renewable ocean energy, low-emission maritime transport, and conservation-led enterprise, and positions communities, women, youth, and small enterprises as central to implementation.

Oversight - Indonesia plans to rehabilitate around 12 mln ha of degraded forests by 2034, Ministry of Forestry said on Tuesday. Deputy Minister Rohmat Marzuki told a parliamentary hearing that forest cover spans about 119.7 mln ha, or 62.5% of Southeast Asia’s largest economy's land area. Deforestation, meanwhile, fell to 166,450 ha by the third quarter of 2025 from 175,437 ha in 2024, driven by stronger monitoring and law enforcement, the ministry said. The government is also promoting social forestry, targeting 1.1 mln ha across more than 3,000 villages to support food, energy, and water security. Authorities meanwhile have revoked 40 underperforming forest-use permits covering 1.5 mln ha and reclaimed areas affected by illegal palm oil planting and mining. The ministry also plans to establish 35 regional forestry coordination centres to improve oversight.

Indonesia needs a better assessment framework for seagrass carbon emission factors (EFs), considering noticeable regional differences across the country, according to a study.

Asia’s first - Grow Indigo’s soil carbon project has become the first in Asia to receive issuance under Verra’s VM0042 soil carbon methodology, the company announced, describing it as a major milestone for high-integrity agricultural carbon markets. The Aadi project, covering about 30,000 acres across India’s Punjab and Haryana, has generated more than 50,000 carbon credits tied to regenerative farming practices and will see 75% of proceeds flow directly to smallholder farmers, boosting income while improving soil health and resilience, the company said.