The pace of issuance of Article 6-authorised credits under one of the major voluntary standards slowed in 2025, even as the number of project authorisations grew, according to a recent report. 

Colombian registry – As of Aug. 2025, 324 emissions reduction activities had voluntarily registered in Colombia's national registry, RENARE, representing 1.1 bln tonnes of CO2e of reductions in the aggregated crediting periods, the coordinator of the instrument at the Directorate of Climate Change and Risk Management of the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADS), Jimena Gomez, said at a webinar last week. These activities apply to the voluntary carbon market or the carbon tax offset mechanism and span over 87 mln ha, which represents 76% of the continental country limits, the official said. Despite the RENARE platform still being under development, the website has gradually been reactivated and currently allows initiatives to register up to a feasibility phase, Gomez added.

Verra announced an issuance of carbon credits under its clean cookstoves methodology on Tuesday – the first of such credits to carry the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label.

The first issuance of credits using Verra’s new high-quality label for the afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) is expected this year, a webinar hosted by the carbon registry heard Tuesday.

Modelling alliance – US-based soil carbon project developer Grassroots Carbon has joined Colorado State University’s Ecosystem Modelling and Data Consortium (EMDC) as an industry member, it was announced this week. The EMDC brings together scientists, NGOs, and industry to develop data-driven approaches to land management and climate mitigation, and its addition of Grassroots Carbon incorporates project-level soil carbon data into the methodologies underpinning carbon markets and NbS, press materials said. In January, Grassroots Carbon announced it had reached 2 mln credits delivered via its regenerative ranching programme.

An Estonian carbon farming project developer and a German data firm have partnered to deliver monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) for soil carbon projects covering more than 300,000 hectares across six European countries, the companies said Tuesday.

Japan is hoping to help decarbonise India’s micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in a bet that hard-to-abate sectors such as textiles, dairy, and steam-intensive manufacturing can deliver early emission cuts under the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM).

Carbon footprint measurement and offsetting in several Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries this month passed from optional to strongly encouraged – or even mandatory – preparing for international compliance measures and boosting domestic carbon markets.

Eight carbon removal startups have been selected for an accelerator programme spanning Europe and India, following a competitive screening process involving 32 early-stage firms, the initiative’s backer said Tuesday.

The European Commission plans to add a new chapter on green claims to its forthcoming revision of the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation, effectively reviving parts of the stalled Green Claims Directive, an EU official told Carbon Pulse.

A European investment bank has advocated for companies to be allowed to use environmental attribute certificates (EACs) including carbon credits where direct mitigation is not yet feasible.

Carbon removals registry Isometric is extending the crediting periods for direct air capture (DAC) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) projects to support suppliers in their project development.

A large CO2 direct air capture (DAC) developer has signed an initial agreement to deploy the technology in Saudi Arabia, following successful testing, it announced on Tuesday.

A Singapore-based non-profit has secured design certification and registration for a mangrove restoration project in Indonesia, marking the first blue carbon initiative approved under Gold Standard’s Methodology for Sustainable Management of Mangroves.

Net zero in sight - Birmingham Airport in England has launched a plan to reach net zero operational emissions by 2033 while backing wider efforts on decarbonisation. The UK's seventh-largest airport, serving almost 14 mln passengers a year, reduced its Scope 1 and 2 emissions in 2024 and 2025 by 30% compared to 2019 and 2020. Efforts include 100% renewable electricity supply, more energy-efficient equipment, and electric vehicle use. The airport is now working with stakeholders to enable the usage of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and has signed an agreement with ZeroAvia on hydrogen refuelling infrastructure. (edie.net)

A London-headquartered tropical forest restoration company has signed a long-term offtake agreement to supply up to 1.8 million carbon removal credits to Microsoft over 15 years, in one of the largest carbon removal transactions from a single project in Africa to date, the company said Tuesday.

Funding call - The Milkywire Climate Transformation Fund has opened its 2026 call for proposals under its nature protection and restoration and decarbonisation pillars, the organisation said on Feb. 19. The fund is seeking projects that remove implementation barriers and support early-stage climate solutions. Selected projects will receive one-year grants, with potential renewal based on performance. Applications close on March 17, with final selections expected by June. The fund is prioritising deforestation prevention, ecosystem restoration across forests, peatlands, and mangroves, and the scaling of emissions reduction solutions. It is also inviting expressions of interest from developers of nature-based carbon credit projects to explore future collaboration.

SAF policy - Expanding SAF mandates to include CDR could support both emissions reductions and cost containment in the aviation sector, Noah Deich, former secretary of the Energy Advisory Board at the US Department of Energy, said in a blog post last week. Current SAF frameworks in jurisdictions such as the EU, Canada, and ICAO largely exclude carbon removal pathways, despite high costs across all SAF options and uncertainty over which technologies will scale. Allowing a limited share of mandates to include removals could diversify supply, support innovation, and improve political durability of SAF policies, while providing offtake opportunities for the CDR sector, Deich said.

New partner - Japanese project developer Green Carbon has signed an MoU with Thailand's Naresuan University to pursue an emissions reduction project using alternate wetting and drying practices across rice paddies in Phitsanulok province. They aim to introduce precise measurement of GHG emissions, develop a data infrastructure aligned with international carbon credit standards, and establish research and demonstration models to support large-scale project implementation, Green Carbon said in a statement, without disclosing more project details.

A nature-based solutions project developer has appointed former South Pole CEO Daniel Klier to its top post, in a push to scale carbon credit generation and supply chain decarbonisation efforts, the company announced Tuesday.

The committee steering Japan's J-Credit programme is planning to add a new methodology that can encourage businesses to switch from high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants to natural alternatives.

Indonesia has launched a five-year plan to protect and restore its vast mangrove and seagrass ecosystems, as it seeks to unlock new streams of finance from blue carbon.

Australian oil and gas company Woodside Energy achieved its 2025 net emission reduction targets by surrendering some 1.28 million carbon credits, as gross emissions continued to rise, according to its annual results published Tuesday.