Adding 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.

A 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.

More 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.

The 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.

There will be more wildfires, storms, and bark beetle infestations across European forests throughout the 21st century under all temperature change scenarios modelled by a large team of scientists.

Growing scrutiny over the credibility of international carbon credits is raising the bar for rice carbon projects, with compliance buyers demanding increasingly sophisticated monitoring systems to verify emission reductions.

Blue carbon atlas - Scientists in India’s Tamil Nadu are planning a high-resolution mapping of coastal blue carbon ecosystems – including mangroves, seagrass meadows, and tidal marshlands – using drones, AI, and cloud computing to better quantify the carbon stored in these habitats. The project, led by the M S Swaminathan Research Foundation in collaboration with the state forest department and supported by Microsoft, aims to generate pixel-level carbon data and produce a Blue Carbon Atlas for the state. Army-grade drones equipped with multispectral sensors and LiDAR will capture detailed imagery to measure vegetation and biomass, enabling scientists to assign carbon values to each mapped pixel and estimate both above-ground and below-ground carbon stocks, the Times of India reported.

Renewed - Indonesia’s Ministry of Forestry has renewed a strategic partnership with the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF) to expand agroforestry as part of sustainable forest and landscape management, the government said in a press release. The agreement, signed in Jakarta, will focus on areas including agroforestry model development, watershed restoration, innovative financing, and digital knowledge systems. Integrating trees with agricultural crops can boost vegetation cover, improve soil fertility, and increase national carbon stocks. ICRAF said the collaboration could strengthen management of around 8 mln ha of community-managed forest land and potentially expand to 12 mln ha.

Sabah forests - Malaysia is looking to expand its carbon market by leveraging Sabah’s vast forest reserves, a federal minister said, highlighting the state’s role as a source of credits, New Straits Times reported. Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Arthur Kurup said Sabah hosts one of Malaysia’s recognised carbon projects, the 83,000 ha Kuamut Rainforest initiative, which has generated more than 80,000 credits traded on the Bursa Carbon Exchange. He added that the federal government is finalising a National Carbon Market Policy and a National Climate Change Bill to strengthen the country’s climate governance and support its 2050 carbon neutrality target.

A 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.

A 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.