Nespresso carbon offtake – Coffee major Nespresso has made its first investment in carbon credits through a partnership with Swiss-based NatureRe Capital, the companies said Wednesday in an emailed press release. The deal centres on NatureRe’s 700-hectare assisted natural regeneration project in Antioquia, Colombia, and marks Nespresso’s first transaction directly linking carbon removal, biodiversity restoration, and social impact within one of its sourcing regions. NatureRe described the agreement as a catalytic, multi-year offtake that could serve as a model for corporates seeking to expand into integrated carbon credit purchases.

A bipartisan, bicameral bill aimed at developing federal programmes for marine carbon removal (mCDR) in the US is back trying to swim past Congress.

Voluntary carbon standard Climate Action Reserve (CAR) has issued what it said were the market’s first sustainable agriculture credits tagged with the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) label, it announced Wednesday.

Working the land - Payments to English farmers for delivering environmental benefits will now be capped at £100,000 a year, the British environment secretary, Emma Reynolds, told the National Farmers' Union conference Wednesday. Currently, farmers receive payments for digging ponds, planting trees, and sowing windflower seeds, to ensure they are not out of pocket compared to using the land for intensive farming. (The Guardian)

Fourteen African governments have committed a combined $400 million to responsible forest management and restoration, in partnership with international non-profit the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

Current carbon removal (CDR) accounting methods risk overstating the climate value of temporary carbon storage and misaligning mitigation efforts with long-term temperature goals, according to a study released last week.

ERW challenges - Large-scale rollout of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) appears limited by substantial challenges, from initial set-up to final carbon removal (CDR), according to a study published in Nature. It raised questions about the availability of suitable feedstock when considering their potential for CDR, and said that dedicated mining for suitable feedstock seems unavoidable when applying ERW at scale. Also, "ERW can positively and negatively affect soil structure, hydrology, and overall carbon and nutrient cycles", so applying it well calls for "site-specific assessment of effective CDR and mitigation of potential negative impacts". Verifying CDR is a challenge because "the fate of weathering products along the land–ocean continuum in rivers remains poorly constrained". Whilst the socio-economic impacts are also uncertain, regarding financing and risk responsibility. All these factors need considering to ensure that ERW is effective, fair, and sustainable.

Carbon removals registry Isometric has updated its bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (Bio-CCS) protocol to include energy-from-waste (EfW) facilities, it announced Wednesday.

Existing EU policies have failed to halt the decline in forest carbon stocks, Danish think tank Concito has warned, urging policymakers to consider a compliance-based carbon pricing regime built around the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), with strict monitoring rules.

A prominent multilateral bank is developing a strategy to scale up carbon markets in Central America, support eight member countries in building the necessary infrastructure for Article 6, and structure a market for highly sought-after biodiversity credits.

A Canadian Big Six bank has purchased a first tranche of carbon removal (CDR) credits in Nova Scotia as it looks to build the nascent CDR market.