Researchers from a US university published their findings on a new method of predicting nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from the country’s croplands on Thursday, utilising a machine learning system to reach higher accuracy.

Bolivia’s recently-elected, carbon market-friendly government has opted to slow the rollout of its market framework rather than rush regulation, seeking to anchor the process in technical cooperation with the EU amid deep institutional restructuring, Carbon Pulse learned during the Bolivia Carbon Forum.

Sylvera news - Sylvera this week announced that it is collaborating with DAC developer Deep Sky to support the transparent development of CDR projects. As part of this work, Sylvera has evaluated Deep Sky Alpha, a facility that has been validated on the Isometric registry and is moving toward credit issuance. Deep Sky is pursuing a model aimed at scaling carbon removal by combining multiple CDR technologies within a single platform while committing to independent verification and analysis throughout project development. The partnership with Sylvera focuses on improving transparency around project design, delivery risk, and the durability of removals, factors seen as increasingly important for buyers and investors as the CDR market expands. Sylvera said more details are to follow in the coming weeks. Separately, Sylvera introduced a new product called Sylvera Portfolios - designed to allow users to build, manage, and monitor portfolios of carbon credits. It integrates the company’s independent credit quality ratings with pricing data that update automatically. The platform is intended to help users track the value of credit holdings, compare scenarios across broker proposals, and create customised price indices across project development portfolios. Sylvera said the system provides a continuously updated view of portfolio performance by combining ratings data with pricing information at the portfolio level.

Thirty-six mitigation strategies across sectors including electricity, industry, transport, buildings, and land use could each deliver around 2 billion tonnes of CO2e of annual emissions reductions by 2050, according to research published Thursday.

A new demand-side coalition was launched on Thursday aiming to mobilise C$100 million ($73.2 mln) in funding for Canadian carbon removal (CDR) projects by 2030 through credit purchases, investment, and project finance.

CDR offtake - Sirona Technologies has signed a multi-year offtake agreement for carbon removal credits generated from its modular direct air capture (DAC) projects that are made in Belgium and deployed globally. The deal was facilitated by carbon marketplace Patch and details about the buyer (s) and volumes weren't specified in the press release. The agreement reflects the trend of buyers securing durable CDR now to guarantee access to high-quality supply later this decade, it said.

A France-based carbon standard has released new jurisdictional risk map for REDD projects in Brazil, it announced Thursday.

Bhutan and Singapore have advanced their bilateral Article 6 partnership with four proposed projects aimed at generating carbon credits under the Paris Agreement, according to local media reports.

Capture partners - Saipem and Capsol Technologies have entered into a non-exclusive cooperation agreement on carbon capture, focused on the joint development of projects in the hot potassium carbonate (HPC) segment. The partnership aims to combine Capsol’s CO2 capture technology with Saipem’s expertise in delivering complex energy projects, in order to provide large industrial emitters with an easily implementable solution. It also builds on the experience gained from the large-scale bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant project for Stockholm Exergi, currently under construction, for which Saipem is EPC contractor and which uses Capsol’s technology.

Spearheading growth - Asset platform Rubicon Carbon has appointed Flora Ji as its head of Asia and head of asset management, based in Singapore. Ji has most recently served as vice president of nature-based solutions at Shell and will apply her expertise in carbon markets to the company's expansion across Asia, said CEO Tom Montag on LinkedIn.

Trading activity on Indonesia’s carbon exchange slumped in February as deals dried up following a brief rebound at the end of last year, exchange data showed on Thursday.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) on Thursday approved a French carbon standard as eligible under its Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), bringing the total number of programmes allowed to issue the high-integrity voluntary credits to nine.

Bolivia has begun work on its previously absent Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) mitigation pillar through a large-scale regenerative agriculture and livestock initiative that is laying the ground for extensive monitoring of soil carbon sequestration (SOC) projects, Carbon Pulse has learned.