Beaver bio boost - Carbon Direct will collaborate with Louisiana bio-methanol and carbon capture developer C2X on its Beaver Lake project. Carbon Direct’s Supply Services business will serve as a project contributor, providing scientific expertise and carbon market knowledge to deliver the highest standards for durability, measurement, and verification, the company said.

The carbon removal (CDR) sector is struggling to scale to meet global climate goals, as projects face financing hurdles and weak buyer signals, a new report said.

Major oil and gas companies should be prohibited from positions of influence within the voluntary carbon market's standards-setting bodies, an NGO said in a report published Thursday.

Argentina ratings – Ratings agency Sylvera has partnered with the Argentina Stock Exchange (BACX) to integrate its project ratings directly onto the exchange’s platform, the company announced Wednesday on LinkedIn. Market participants can now view Sylvera Ratings alongside listed projects, access independent quality and delivery risk assessments, and request full due diligence without leaving the exchange. The first rated project live on BACX is a forestry initiative by Unitan.

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.

This is an SRS - The UK published its new sustainability reporting standards on Wednesday, officially endorsing the global corporate baseline set by the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards, the Department of Business and Trade announced. The UK SRS 1 and SRS 2 set out a framework for corporate disclosures, including requirements on general sustainability- and climate-related risks and opportunities. Next, the department plans to look at where it could mandate standards, an official said last month.

A carbon asset manager with ambitions to become the leading supplier of CORSIA-eligible credits has struck a marketing deal for a cookstove project in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Key Carbon hire – Canada-based Key Carbon has appointed Audinga Besuspare as president as it expands its senior leadership team during a period of growth in carbon markets, the company announced Tuesday. Besuspare joins from PSP Investments, where she was senior director and co-led the European direct private equity team, having previously worked at Permira. She will work alongside CEO Luke Leslie on strategy, operations, and business development, after also serving as executive in residence at InSoil, a Key Carbon portfolio company focused on soil carbon projects. The firm in 2026 plans on scaling investments across InSoil, Global Cookstoves, and Worldview International, with projects beginning to generate carbon credits amid tightening supply and rising regulation-linked demand, it said.

Most Sub-Saharan African governments started 2026 by pushing ahead with long-awaited carbon and climate regulations, in a show of the growing policy momentum across the region, even as turbulence in voluntary markets exposed persistent risks around governance, integrity, and investor confidence.

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.

Softer strategy - The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has omitted mention of net zero by 2040 in its latest sustainability strategy, stating that it will “accelerate action on the road to reducing GHG emissions by 50% within UEFA and across UEFA events, and advocate action across European football”. The 2021 version of the strategy stated the union would halve its GHG emissions by 2030 and had set out a carbon reduction plan affecting employee travel, waste management, purchased goods and services, and other areas. The new strategy confirms this carbon reduction plan remains in place, but the language has weakened by removing the end point for next zero, which weakens the direction and collective signal, according to one football and climate commentator. (edie.net)

An Australian feed additive company, targeting emissions reductions from livestock, posted a 236% surge in revenue in the first half of the 2026 financial year, it said on Wednesday.

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.