Voluntary program body BioCarbon is consulting on a revised version of its biodiversity standard as it continues to pursue international recognition as a high-integrity certification body, this time seeking to align with the Biodiversity Credit Alliance’s (BCA) High-level Principles, Carbon Pulse has learned.

Carbon removal (CDR) pathways often deliver climate benefits only years or decades after deployment, but these temporal lags are treated inconsistently across carbon crediting protocols, according to a new research preprint.

A forestry carbon project developer set out plans to use AI‑driven digital tools to help scale smallholder tree planting projects while maintaining quality.

A Norway-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) project developer has signed an offtake agreement with an international assurance provider for a total of 40,000 CO2 removal (CDR) credits worth at least NOK 100 million (€8.6 mln).

Emissions trading association IETA is launching a new taskforce for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to support the development of markets across the region, a senior representative told Carbon Pulse.

The UK’s first and largest carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has signed a lease of the seabed in the North Sea that starts the ball rolling for storing up to 1 billion tonnes of CO2.

Relying on non-permanent carbon removal to meet net zero targets risks creating a Sisyphean cycle of repeated mitigation and a growing carbon debt for future generations, according to a paper released Wednesday.

Permanence will become the dominant filter through which carbon removal buyers assess projects in 2026, the chief scientist from a carbon removals (CDR) marketplace said on Wednesday. 

A carbon removal registry has released a draft module designed to create a standardised framework for durably storing biomass in subsurface mine workings.

Three technology firms have announced a strategic partnership to build national-scale infrastructure for carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, targeting a huge pipeline of Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs).

Nestle blames Trump – Nestle chief executive Philipp Navratil has partly blamed US President Donald Trump for the food giant’s muted public stance on sustainability, citing a sharp drop in investor interest in ESG issues in the US since Trump’s re-election. Speaking to employees in December, Navratil said it was “a bit a pity” Nestle was not more vocal and added it was “also President Trump’s fault” as climate concerns had “totally gone off the agenda” in US investor meetings. He stressed Nestle remains committed to its net zero by 2050 goal, after already cutting emissions 20%. (Financial Times)

Repurposing alkaline industrial waste into carbon-storing minerals could unlock carbon removal on the scale of billions of tonnes, with added environmental and economic benefits, according to a white paper.

Concrete credits - Law firm Castren and Snellman has agreed to purchase the first certified carbon credits generated from Carbonaide’s CO₂ mineralisation technology in concrete, the developer said on LinkedIn. Carbonaide claims its technology stores CO2 permanently, whilst improving concrete strength and production efficiency - making green concrete profitable. The first credits will be based on CO₂ storage at the Lakka-konserni factory in Finland, certified by the Isometric registry.

A United Arab Emirates-based technology company has carried out its first Article 6 transaction for carbon credits from a large forestry project in Malawi, it announced on Wednesday.

Gold Standard has launched a new carbon methodology that enables farmers and project developers to earn credits by using microbes to lock atmospheric CO2 into agricultural soils.

Clean cooking consultation - The Global Carbon Council (GCC) has launched a public consultation on its draft methodology: Methodology for Clean Cooking Transitions using DMRV Protocol (GCCNMT016). Comments are welcome by the deadline of Feb. 17, it said on LinkedIn. The development will help enable large-scale rollout of  improved cookstoves and clean cooking technologies across household, residential, institutional, and commercial settings, with solutions based on biomass, LPG, ethanol, biogas, electric, and hybrid technologies. Digital MRV will help enhance transparency in emissions reduction issuance. The draft methodology can be viewed here.

A first-of-its-kind US-based peatland restoration project has secured a 100,000-credit carbon removal pre-purchase from a Canadian decarbonisation fund, providing early-stage financing to advance development and construction.

Regulatory uncertainty in Indonesia’s carbon markets means sourcing investors remains challenging for a local waste-to-energy project, the developer told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week.

Indonesia has become the latest country to join the Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets, raising the number of nations in the group to 11.