Guyana has secured the issuance of more than 9 million jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) carbon credits under the ART TREES certification programme, with the vintage 2023 units eligible for use under UN aviation offsetting scheme CORSIA.

Parties in a US consumer-led class action lawsuit are probing whether companies making carbon-neutral claims can rely on third-party offset certification or whether additional substantiation of emissions reductions is required, ahead of a hearing on a motion to dismiss on Tuesday.

A global agtech software company plans to burst into the afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) market, expecting to initiate 10 voluntary carbon projects this year after switching away from a REDD+ avoided deforestation approach, the founder and chief executive told Carbon Pulse this week.

A France-headquartered carbon crediting standard has received conditional endorsement from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA).

New buyers guide - South Pole, the Swiss-based carbon developer and financier, is launching the 2026 Carbon Market Buyer’s Guide to help investors navigate the voluntary sector. The guide reveals insights and the trends in the marketplace, including the shift from volume buying to integrity, Article 6, CORSIA, and the emergence of digitalisation. This is the second edition of the guide.

Digital removals - Cula, a digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) platform for the carbon removals sector of the voluntary carbon market, has linked up with removals registry Puro.earth through its new dMRV Connect API. Puro built and launched this API as part of its roadmap toward investment-grade carbon removal infrastructure. Cula is the first dMRV system to integrate and use it in production.

After a first draft was submitted to public consultation last year, the European Commission on Tuesday published its final proposal to certify activities that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere, allowing first projects to be certified “in the coming months”.

Automotive feedback - The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has opened a second public consultation on a new framework for automakers and auto parts manufacturers seeking to set science-based targets aligned with reaching net zero by 2050. Stakeholders are asked to respond to the updated draft of its Automotive Sector Net-Zero Standard. Key updates include staying aligned with the developing Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2 and redefining low-emission vehicles as zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). The consultation is open from Tuesday until Mar. 22, 2026 and once finalised, shall replace parts of the SBTi’s existing Land Transport Guidance relating to the auto sector.

Nature-based carbon projects often struggle to prove that they deliver real and measurable emissions reductions, according to recently published research that highlighted fundamental limits to causal attribution in complex social-ecological systems.

Indonesia is aiming to complete the launch of its national carbon market by late June, with large transactions expected to begin the following month, local media reported Tuesday.

A London-based carbon credit standard has introduced a pre-approval pathway for pyrolysers to streamline the validation of biochar projects and accelerate credit issuance, it announced Tuesday.

A UK-based conservation firm is raising capital to more than double its REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania by 2035 and has launched a global learning platform focused on social impact in nature-based solutions (NbS), it announced last week.

A government body in Sweden is preparing to launch a SEK 300 million (€28 mln) funding call in March aimed at supporting bio-based carbon capture and storage (bio-CCS), it announced last week. 

A British carbon removals company is preparing to announce a series of new projects to supply its new storage site in Denmark, where it was forced to expand because it isn't eligible for storage capacity at home – at least for now. 

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) and Malaysia Forest Fund (MFF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation on carbon markets and scale nature-based solutions across Malaysia, the organisations announced Tuesday.

JNR rating - The jurisdictional REDD+ (JNR) programme of Argentina’s Misiones province has received an A-AA rating from carbon ratings agency Sylvera, its developer Coralia Environmental announced Monday via LinkedIn. The assessment makes Misiones the first REDD+ project in Argentina to reach an A rating, only the second carbon project nationwide to do so, and the first with potential to attain AA status. Sylvera flagged only moderate risk levels across leakage, anthropogenic risk, and systems and safeguards categories, marking a step closer to the commercialisation of the world's first credits under Verra's JNR 2a scenario methodology.

Costa Rica became the latest Latin American country to elect a right-leaning president over the weekend, reinforcing a regional political shift that has left carbon pricing instruments suspended less by ideology than by questions of institutional capacity and revenue generation.