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- Sat 16:16An oil major has urged officials to revise proposed amendments to the state's cap-and-invest programme and adopt a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on fuel imports, warning the changes will otherwise cause irreversible harm to the industry.
- Sat 06:38Researchers have proposed a market-based framework to help the chemicals industry decarbonise complex global supply chains, arguing that verified emissions reductions within value chains could become a scalable complement to existing carbon markets.
- Sat 06:21Adding biochar to soil could significantly reduce the climate impact of farming in dryland regions compared with compost-based treatments, according to a new study that highlights implications for offsets and agricultural mitigation strategies.
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TGI+XGC - TGI Solar Power Group has signed a letter of intent to acquire Ontario-based XGC Corp for $1.8 mln, aiming to deploy national carbon registry infrastructure for governments participating in international carbon markets under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement. The deal would be executed through a new Wyoming subsidiary focused on offering “sovereign carbon infrastructure-as-a-Service”, enabling countries to issue, track, and manage carbon credits through a digital registry platform. XGC’s system combines satellite-based GeoAI verification, blockchain-based credit tracking, and enterprise financial governance tools designed to support transparent carbon credit issuance, prevent double counting, and manage revenue flows. TGI expects the platform to generate recurring revenues through registry licensing and transaction fees tied to national carbon credit activity. The companies plan to target initial deployments in Africa, Central Asia, and Latin America following a 90-day due diligence period, while XGC is also pursuing international patents covering its integrated registry and verification technologies.
- Sat 05:35Canada-Japan CCUS - Canada has announced a new comprehensive strategic partnership with Japan aimed at expanding trade ties and energy security. The bilateral agreement said the pair would look to increase efforts to support Japanese automotive manufacturers in advancing their decarbonisation efforts in Canada, and increase cooperation on clean energy technologies, including nuclear technologies, hydrogen, energy-efficient industrial processes, as well as carbon capture, utilisation, and storage. Japan was the third stop on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trade expansion tour amid uncertainty over the Canada-US relationship. He signed similar pledges with Australia earlier in the week.
- Sat 05:35Grid monitor says no - PJM Interconnection's market monitor urged US federal regulators to reject a plan by data centre developer TeraWulf to buy a 216MW oil-fired power plant in Maryland from GenOn, warning the deal would remove needed generation from a constrained grid zone and shift costs to ratepayers, Utility Dive reported. TeraWulf said it plans to build two phases of roughly 500MW each of gas-fired generation at the site - totalling about 1GW - alongside 250MW of battery storage per phase, intending to operate as a net generator to the state. The opposition came on the same day President Donald Trump issued a "ratepayer pledge" signed by Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI committing the companies to acquire new generation to meet their data centre needs.
- Sat 05:34Cleanup clash – Environmental and Indigenous groups criticised a newly announced effort to clean up oil sands tailings ponds in Canada on Friday, calling it an inadequate response to the sector’s vast toxic liabilities. Environmental Defence, Alberta Wilderness Association, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE), Indigenous Climate Action, and Keepers of the Water said the C$46 mln initiative paid for via Alberta’s Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) fund would do little to address roughly 1.7 trillion litres of contaminated tailings. The organisations argued companies already have legal obligations to reclaim tailings, warning the plan risks becoming “window-dressing” that enables industry expansion while leaving environmental and health impacts on downstream Indigenous communities unresolved.
- Sat 05:33RECs and records - Environmental futures and options on Nodal Exchange hit a daily volume record of 31.8 mln contracts on Feb. 10, surpassing the previous record of 27.8 mln contracts set a year earlier, as open interest in environmental products rose 6% year-on-year to 443.4 mln contracts at the end of February. Carbon futures and options volume on the exchange more than doubled YoY to 16.8 mln in February, with OI up 14% to 60.3 mln. Renewable energy certificate (REC) OI grew 13% YoY to 365.3 mln. Natural gas futures also set a monthly record of 182 mln, up 105% from Feb. 2025.
- Sat 03:11Oilsands blinks on carbon - Canadian Natural Resources deferred early engineering work on its C$8.25 bln ($6.1 bln) Jackpine oilsands mine expansion north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Thursday, citing uncertainty around federal carbon pricing and methane emissions rules, CBC reported. The Calgary-based company had planned to spend about C$150 mln this year on the project but said the regulatory environment had created an "economic burden for long-term growth investments." Alberta and Ottawa signed a memorandum of understanding late last year aiming to reach agreements on industrial carbon pricing and methane by Apr. 1. The Pembina Institute's oil and gas programme director said it was odd to pause a major investment over policy uncertainty expected to be resolved within a month.
- Sat 01:10Colorado's attorney general and two environmental groups sued the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday to reverse its rejection of the state's air quality plan, a move the litigants said illegally stripped a federally enforceable retirement deadline from a coal-fired power plant.
- Sat 00:52Both producers and financial players in the California carbon market reduced net length over the Feb. 25-Mar. 3 period, largely through changes in their Auction Clearing Price (ACP) holdings, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) data published Friday.
- Sat 00:22A major Bolivian industrial group expects to bring the first pyrolysis line of a new biochar facility online in Q3, potentially becoming the country’s second supplier of carbon removal (CDR) credits, Carbon Pulse learned this week at the Bolivia Carbon Forum.
- Sat 00:20The past month in climate litigation saw the US’ highest court take up a major lawsuit led by local governments against the oil industry, a landmark corporate climate case move into trial phase in Europe, and courts across multiple jurisdictions weigh greenwashing claims and statutory climate duties.
- Fri 23:34A former leader of a major US environmental advocacy group has launched a new climate initiative aimed at scaling carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies while supporting efforts to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for climate damages.
- Fri 23:30Canada and Alberta have agreed to avoid interfering with each other on their projects during environmental and regulatory requirements in a new agreement, marking a major milestone in negotiations as the pair progress towards overhauling the country’s largest carbon market.
- The Brazilian Ministry of Finance published on Friday the final results for the industry representatives selected to participate in a technical committee for the country’s emissions trading system (ETS) (Portuguese: SBCE).
- Fri 20:39A former employee filed a class action lawsuit on Tuesday alleging that workers’ retirement savings were exposed to excessive climate-related financial risk through an investment option in a company-sponsored 401(k) plan.
- Fri 16:25Voluntary carbon registries may have to reveal the company or entity retiring credits to meet the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Market’s (ICVCM) threshold for Core Carbon Principles (CCP) eligibility, in a move under consideration to ratchet up transparency, a spokesperson for the organisation told Carbon Pulse Friday.
- Fri 16:12Soaring oil prices – Crude oil prices could surge to $150 per barrel within two to three weeks if the critical Strait of Hormuz remains closed to tankers, Qatar’s Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told the Financial Times in an interview published on Friday. His comments came just hours before reports that Kuwait – one of OPEC’s founding members – had begun shutting production at some oilfields as storage capacity fills up with shipments blocked at the strait. Kuwait is also considering deeper production cuts, including at refineries, to align output with domestic demand. All major Middle Eastern oil and gas exporters are set to declare force majeure on exports within days if the key shipping lane remains effectively closed to tanker traffic, said al-Kaabi, who is also president and CEO of QatarEnergy. Qatar’s state energy firm earlier this week halted LNG production at its Ras Laffan hub, the world’s largest LNG complex. Front-month Brent crude futures were trading above $90 a barrel on Friday.
- Fri 15:46More than 2 million carbon credits from a Brazilian Amazon forest project were retired by companies after the project had been suspended and placed under investigation by Verra, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Friday.
- Fri 14:53Sea level jump – Actual sea levels in coastal areas are up to 24-27 cm higher than previously thought, meaning the impacts of sea level rise have been underestimated, according to a new study published in the journal Nature this week. Researchers from Wageningen University in the Netherlands analysed 385 scientific studies and found that 90% of them assume the sea is at exactly the same height as the land, when in actual fact it often rises above that due to wind and waves, for example. Predominantly in the Global South, measured mean sea level can be more than 1 m above the assumed level, with the largest differences in the Indo-Pacific. This means climate change-induced sea level rise could affect 31-37% more land and 48-68% more people (increasing estimates to 77-132 mln) than previously thought. (Nature study)
- Fri 14:22Middle East angst – A lengthy war in the Middle East may drive up demand for carbon credits in the compliance market, if utilities switch to coal as a result of LNG disruptions, according to BloombergNEF. Taiwan is already considering boosting production at coal-fired plants, while Italy is keeping its plants in reserve as a precaution. The ultimate impact on compliance markets will depend on how long the energy disruption lasts and whether regulators step in to adjust compliance caps, said AirCarbon Exchange. Meanwhile, the voluntary market could see a drop in buying activity as corporate discretionary spending gets constrained due to higher operating costs from an energy crisis - firms may reconsider buying timelines, emissions forecasts, and hedging strategies as a result, according to AirCarbon. (Bloomberg News)
- Fri 14:00The Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF) should build on the governance systems developed for jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+), as the two mechanisms share objectives and draw on complementary sources of finance, a board member of standard body ART told Carbon Pulse.
- Fri 12:42Colombia's fossil fuel phase-out conference – The First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels – to be hosted by Colombia and co-organised by the Netherlands in April – now has a rough agenda, Colombian Environment Minister Irene Velez Torres said on a webinar Thursday. A meeting of academics will be held from Apr. 24-26 ahead of a high-level summit on Apr. 28-29 with participants from 40-80 countries, including civil society and academic delegates. The conference itself will unfold in four stages: collection of written submissions focused on concrete solutions; online dialogue on the basis of these contributions; decentralised, self-directed dialogues organised by local communities and other actors; and the high-level segment, which will have capacity limits. For the final stage, accreditation will be based on three criteria meant to ensure balance: regional representation, sectoral representation, and relevant work on the conference's main themes. The conference is designed to contribute to Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's call to develop a global roadmap for phasing out fossil fuels, announced at COP30 in Belem last November. Colombia will host national elections in May.
- Fri 11:54Carbon insurance to manage political risk, and a dual-layered registry approach to support carbon accounting, are two valuable tools for the UN’s CORSIA international aviation offsetting market – but there are big caveats, according to experts.
- Fri 04:36Redirecting revenues from the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) to producers of specific industrial product categories rather than allocating them by country could both reduce global emissions and offset some of the policy’s welfare losses for trading partners, researchers argue.
- Canada’s critical minerals sector has the potential to transform into a removal vehicle, but must ensure that supply chains remain ethical, a group of experts warned on Thursday.
- Fri 03:58Countries could seize a "golden opportunity" by establishing a government-backed strategic reserve to guarantee long-term demand for CO2 removal credits and unlock financing for large-scale projects in the "massive industry of the future".
- Governments in Canada, the UK, and the US are pursuing markedly different policy approaches to scaling CO2 removal (CDR), with diverging frameworks for financing projects and long-term revenue certainty emerging as the sector seeks to move from pilot activity to commercial deployment.
- Fri 02:27Golden state, dim program - California has built at most 34 community solar projects since 2015, falling well behind at least 10 other US states that have developed programmes allowing renters and low-income residents to subscribe to shared solar arrays for discounts on electricity bills, The Los Angeles Times reported. Eight states have more than 100 megawatts of community solar installed, led by New York with 2,789MW, while California has less than 100MW. The state's California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has yet to launch an effective programme after a 2024 decision to pay community solar developers at a lower rate than rooftop solar, and after failing to spend most of US$250 mln in federal Solar for All grant funding before the Trump administration moved to claw it back. The CPUC said it still plans to release a programme within months.
- Fri 02:19Alberta is considering labels to distinguish carbon removal (CDR) from reduction credits in its Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction (TIER) regulation, while also tightening benchmark accounting rules for low- and zero-emitting oil and gas facilities starting in 2026.
- Fri 02:06Oregon CFP meeting - Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold a Rulemaking Advisory Committee meeting on Mar. 18 for its Clean Fuels Program (CFP), it announced on Wednesday. The committee will provide DEQ with input for an upcoming rulemaking on the programme, including topics such as a proposed tightened carbon intensity standard, potential amendments to improvement alignment with neighbouring states' similar programmes, electrification provisions, and more. DEQ will provide an opportunity for public comment, and interested parties can register here.
- Fri 01:44A decade-long field trial in Germany has found that regenerative organic farming practices can increase soil carbon stocks, but mainly in surface soils and with limited evidence of long-term carbon storage at depth – raising questions about how related offsets methodologies account for permanence and monitoring.
- Fri 01:26California Carbon Allowance (CCA) futures hit multi-month lows before recovering to end the week flat, as most traders said they saw little reason prices would elevate soon much above current levels hovering over the price floor.
- Fri 01:25US balcony solar - Lawmakers in 27 states and Washington, DC, have announced legislation to enable plug-in solar panels, according to Corporate Knights. The outlet wrote an 800-watt unit that costs $1,099 could save a New York household $279 on average per year amid affordability concerns and climbing energy costs. Millions of households in Europe have already installed plug-in solar.
- Fri 01:20Power payments - California government watchdog is urging lawmakers to adopt new rules for AI data centres, warning their rapid growth could raise electricity bills if companies do not cover the grid infrastructure they require. In a report released Tuesday, the independent Little Hoover Commission recommended creating a special electricity rate category for very large power users and requiring them to prepay for grid upgrades and related costs. The report comes as Pacific Gas & Electric told regulators proposed data-centre projects could add about 10 GW of electricity demand over the next decade – roughly four times the generating capacity of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Lawmakers including Cottie Petrie-Norris (D) said they are preparing legislation to ensure data centres pay their share of grid costs and protect households from rate increases. (CalMatters)
- Fri 01:15Update needed - The Carbon Capture Coalition announced on Thursday that they urged the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to update their safety guidelines for CO2 pipelines. The coalition wants the federal regulatory body, under the US Department of Transportation, to modernise safety regulations and address concerns from the 2020 pipeline failure in Mississippi, to provide confidence in the expansion of the sector. The leak in Satartia, Mississippi caused 45 people to be taken to the hospital and 200 to be evacuated, following a rupture caused by a landslide during heavy rain conditions. The incident has been referenced in other regulatory considerations for CO2 pipelines, such as the multi-state Summit Carbon Solutions pipeline. State regulators have previously noted that PHMSA’s planned updates to its CO2 pipeline safety regulations are unknown.
- Fri 01:00Reporting scoop - Caterpillar’s CCS collaboration is evaluating a site in Wyoming for developing a natural gas system integrated with battery storage and carbon capture, a spokesperson for the company told Carbon Pulse on Thursday. Wyoming has primacy over Class VI CO2 injection permits as well as a carbon management framework. The agreement is focused on deploying a behind-the-meter natural gas-fired facility of approximately 500 MW paired with carbon capture. Caterpillar said location details remain confidential as development advances. The project is expected to launch in 2026. Wyoming regulators granted a CCS siting permit in the fourth quarter of 2025 to the Dry Piney Helium and Sequestration Project, which is planned on private land in Sublette County.
- Fri 00:48Biogas to jet fuel - Houston-based Syzygy Plasmonics has signed a memorandum of understanding with Brazilian developer Geo bio gas&carbon to explore commercial-scale SAF production using biogas from sugarcane residues, the companies announced Tuesday. The collaboration aims to deploy projects capable of producing up to 100,000 tonnes of SAF per year initially, with a longer-term vision of building a portfolio of facilities exceeding 525k tonnes annually across Brazil. The initiative forms part of Syzygy’s broader NovaSAF expansion strategy, which seeks to convert biogas into low-carbon fuels using its light-driven reactor technology. The firm has recently signed similar feedstock agreements in several regions, including the US, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic, targeting a combined pipeline intended to support up to 1 mln tonnes of annual SAF output globally by 2035.
- Fri 00:28A Bolivia-based biochar developer is ramping up production capacity as it targets delivering 320,000 carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credits in 2026 and up to 1 million annually by 2028, while also exploring an expansion into new biomass streams and geographies, its CEO told Carbon Pulse.
