An increase in high-quality and large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR) credit supply, growing buyer participation – even speculators – and the emergence of financial and technological infrastructure suggest the engineered removals market may be approaching a turning point, according to the president of a leading carbon removals standard.

Corporations can achieve immediate and long-term climate benefits by strategically pairing super pollutant abatement with carbon removal (CDR), according to a report by a carbon management platform.

Rock on – A new study published in the journal AGU Advances last week showed that injecting CO2 into underground rocks can trigger mineralisation that locks the GHG into solid minerals for potentially millions of years. Researchers found that mineral build-up in narrow channels sharply reduced the rock’s permeability, making it harder for fluids to flow through it. However, the rock’s overall porosity remained largely unchanged, and fluids continued moving through it at a lower rate. The findings suggest that even when mineralisation slows flow, rocks may still keep forming minerals and storing carbon underground.

Prairie carbon – A federal investment of more than C$4.4 mln ($3.2 mln) will support 10 projects aimed at strengthening the forest sector in the provinces of Alberta and Manitoba, the Canadian government announced on Friday. Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) said the funding will advance manufacturing and processing, diversify forest products and export markets, and support Indigenous groups and forestry businesses. Among the initiatives, the Paddle Prairie Metis Settlement will receive C$200,000 for its Paddle Prairie Carbon project in Alberta, which will work with lands-holding Indigenous groups to pursue economic opportunities linked to forest carbon and related regulatory frameworks.

An Alberta-based carbon credit platform and an Indigenous cooperative have formed an alliance to develop pathways aimed at decarbonising the province's oil and gas assets for global markets.

CORSIA prices stabilised last week, but there was a general-sell off in much of the avoidance complex amid uncertainty about the impact of the war in the Middle East on the economy.

Outstanding design choices for Colombia’s ETS (Spanish: PNCTE) could put the scheme on several paths – but selecting the right one is tricky due to the lack of a clear policy direction, experts have told Carbon Pulse.

The engineered carbon removals (CDR) market saw a softening in investment and fewer forward purchase deals in February, with biochar projects again dominating new issuance and retirements, according to registry data and figures from two analytics firms.

Consultation open – Gold Standard has opened a consultation on formal procedures to address and remediate over-issuance or erroneous issuance of certified products. The procedure applies to cases where Gold Standard Verified Emission Reductions (GSVERs), verified SDG impacts, or other Gold Standard-labelled products are found to have been issued in excess of the correct amount, including cases caused by calculation errors, protocol breaches, or misreporting. The rules apply across all GS4GG-certified products, apart from land use and forestry (LUF) projects. The deadline to respond is Apr. 9 at 18:00 CET.

A carbon crediting registry has released updated Article 6.2 procedures for projects seeking eligibility for international transfers of mitigation outcomes (ITMOs), including potential use under CORSIA, alongside an updated list of approved methodologies.

Japan has revised five methodologies under its domestic J-Credit carbon offset scheme, updating rules for agricultural methane reductions, biochar soil carbon, and energy-efficiency technologies.

Qatar-based Global Carbon Council (GCC) has launched a public consultation on a new validation and verification framework designed to support carbon credit generation from energy access projects, including clean cooking and distributed renewable energy systems.

Scaling up CO2 removal technologies to meet global climate targets could create significant new pressures on mineral resources, ecosystems, and agricultural inputs, even as the methods help reduce atmospheric greenhouse gases, researchers have warned.

Handle with care - Bangladesh’s plan to develop a $1 bln carbon market has sparked debate among environmentalists and policy experts over governance, climate justice, and the effectiveness of carbon trading in delivering real emissions reductions. The proposal, referenced in the election manifesto of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), envisions building a carbon market capable of attracting international climate finance by selling verified carbon credits generated from emission reduction projects. According to government officials carbon trading could become a significant future revenue source, but environmentalists have cautioned that strong monitoring, verification systems, and safeguards for local communities will be essential to ensure transparency and credibility in the emerging market. (The Climate Watch)

Cooling the carbon market - A methodology to generate carbon credits from the recovery and destruction of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerant gases in developing nations has entered its public commentary phase after five review rounds under Open Carbon Protocol. The methodology, developed by staff at the Carbon Containment Lab and submitted in Aug. 2025, expands on existing carbon market mechanisms for ozone-depleting substances (ODS) - which have prevented more than 30 MtCO2e emissions to date - to cover HFCs for the first time. HFCs replaced ozone-depleting refrigerants but carry global warming potential thousands of times that of CO2. The methodology targets Article 5 countries under the Montreal Protocol, which typically lack refrigerant reclamation infrastructure and legal end markets for recovered gases.

A French trade association has published the methodology and project list behind its new mapping initiative, which assesses the potential for CO2 removal deployment across regions of the country.