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- TEU good - Global logistics company DP World launched a carbon inset trial in Belgium, Portugal, and Sweden on Wednesday, offering qualifying ocean freight forwarding customers credits of 100 kg of CO2e per twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) shipped per quarter at no additional cost. The Insetify programme, which takes effect Apr. 1, requires a minimum threshold of 25 TEUs per quarter and generates credits by deploying lower-carbon fuel within DP World's own supply chain rather than funding external offset projects. The trial expands on a UK programme launched in Jan. 2025 that registered more than 250,000 TEUs and issued more than 9,000 tCO2e of carbon inset credits. Unlike carbon offsets, insets reduce emissions within the customer's own value chain, targeting Scope 3 emissions from ocean freight.
- Retired, reduced - Volkswagen retired over 680,000 tCO2e worth of carbon credits in 2025, an 89% drop from 6 MtCO2e worth cancelled in 2024, according to its annual sustainability report. All credits cancelled were from emissions reduction projects - and none from removal projects - with 56% issued under Verra and 44% under Gold Standard. The group's Scope 1 emissions fell to 2.7 MtCO2e in 2025 from 3.3 MtCO2e in 2024, while market-based Scope 2 emissions declined to 900,000 from 1.1 MtCO2e. Scope 3 emissions rose to under 883.7 MtCO2e from 824 MtCO2e. Volkswagen said carbon credits are reserved for hard-to-abate emissions only and are expected to represent less than 10% of total emissions once all its efficiency and electrification measures are in place.
- Sun 23:12Tool fix, grid mix - Verra is seeking funders, technical contributors, and independent expert reviewers to help revise VT0011, its tool for estimating grid electricity emission factors used across Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) methodologies. The proposed revision would consolidate the tool into a standalone document, removing its current reliance on the Clean Development Mechanism's TOOL07, and would merge it with the related VT0010 tool to reduce cross-referencing. Verra also plans to introduce simplified calculation procedures, improved quantification approaches, and potentially an hourly marginal emission factor. The revision is currently at the methodology idea note stage.
- Sun 23:10Capturing outback - Dutch direct air capture (DAC) company Skytree entered the Australian market, as its CEO, Rob van Straten, participated in a two-week trade mission and delivering a keynote at the Energy Exchange Australia conference in Perth. The company said Australia's abundant solar and wind resources create conditions for low-cost DAC operations, with target markets including synthetic aviation fuel production, greenhouse horticulture, beverage carbonation, and geological carbon storage. Skytree appointed a Sydney-based project development manager for the Asia-Pacific region as part of the expansion. The company said its modular technology aligns with Australia's Safeguard Mechanism and its emissions reduction target of 62-70% below 2005 levels by 2035.
- Sun 23:07Bank's carbon homework - Deutsche Bank purchased and retired just under 101,600 tonnes of CO2e in voluntary carbon credits in 2025, sourced from projects across Asia, Africa, and Latin America, according to its annual report. Some 83% of the credits came from emissions reduction projects, with the remaining 17% from removal projects including biochar and nature-based solutions. By standard, 75% were issued under Verra, 12% under Gold Standard, 8% under Global C-Sink Registry, and 5% under Puro.earth. The German lender said credits are used only to offset residual Scope 1, Scope 2, and business travel emissions that cannot be eliminated through efficiency or renewable energy measures. Separately, Deutsche Bank signed a letter of intent at COP30 with Honduras and Suriname to develop sovereign rainforest carbon credits under Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement.
- Sun 03:31A Dutch voluntary carbon market standard has revised its methodology for carbon removal through enhanced mineral weathering, adding the mineral wollastonite and updating accounting rules for projects seeking carbon certificates.
- Sat 11:40Enhanced weathering (EW) could remove hundreds of millions of tonnes of CO2 each year, though major uncertainties remain around how much carbon ultimately reaches long-term storage, according to a new study.
- Sat 11:20Rising attendance has driven a 26-fold increase in emissions from air travel to United Nations climate negotiations over the past three decades, with delegate flights generating more than 710,000 tonnes of CO2e since the mid-1990s, according to a new study.
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Airmo' money - Airmo, a Berlin and Luxembourg-based space technology startup focused on monitoring methane emissions, has raised €5 mln in a seed funding round to support the launch of its first satellite mission. Founded in 2022 by rocket scientist Daria Stepanova, the company develops airborne and space-based tools to detect methane leaks. The new funding will help expand its current monitoring operations using drones and aircraft, support international growth, and finance a satellite scheduled for launch in 2027. Airmo says its planned satellite system will combine a short-wave infrared (SWIR) imager with micro-LIDAR on a small satellite platform, enabling more accurate and lower-cost methane detection than existing space-based systems. The technology is designed to identify methane leaks as small as the size of a car from 500 km in orbit. The company’s monitoring tools are already used commercially for energy infrastructure inspections across Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa, with clients including Uniper, TotalEnergies, and ESCE. The seed round was led by Ananda Impact Ventures, with participation from Unconventional Ventures, kopa ventures, Desai Ventures, Hypernova / New Venture Securities, strategic investors affiliated with EQT, and additional backers including Antler, Findus Ventures, E2MC, and Pi Labs.
- Fri 21:38Storage start – Engineering and project delivery company Kent has been selected by Enearth, a subsidiary of UK energy company Energean, to carry out the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the planned Prinos CO2 storage project in northern Greece, they announced on Friday. The project aims to receive CO2 from industrial emitters shipped to a new terminal near Kavala, before conditioning and transporting the gas via subsea pipeline for injection into the Prinos aquifer beneath an existing reservoir. Developers plan for the site to handle up to 2.8 mln tonnes of CO2 per year by 2029, with the project already holding environmental and storage permits and securing EU and Greek government funding.
- Fri 21:31Jet pact – French renewable fuels firm Axens and multinational European aircraft manufacturer Airbus have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance development and deployment of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the companies announced this week. The partnership will centre on technical discussions around existing and emerging SAF production pathways, with the companies strengthening exchanges between their engineering teams to deepen understanding of available technologies. Axens and Airbus also plan to support wider SAF deployment through joint advocacy, stakeholder engagement, and regional market analysis, while exploring initiatives that could reduce project risk and accelerate global SAF production at scale.
- Fri 21:06Energy Aspects’ London-based senior carbon analyst is joining risk management firm Redshaw Advisors, Carbon Pulse has learned.
- Fri 20:14Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA said this week it will appeal to the country’s Supreme Court after the Borgarting Court of Appeal overturned a lower court ruling that had cleared the airline of a NOK 400 million (€33.8 mln) penalty linked to its failure to comply with the EU ETS during the pandemic.
- Fri 18:33One of the largest cooperation agreements to curb deforestation in the Amazon has renewed its commitment with a second country, extending efforts beyond 2030 with an emphasis on results-based payments and carbon markets regulation.
- Fri 17:36Pressure overload - Consumers in Malta are reportedly paying an extra €654,000 per week in freight and shipping costs as the Middle East war is driving a surge in fuel prices, and exacerbating the impact of the EU ETS. The Association of Tractor and Trailer Operators on Friday called for an immediate suspension of ETS obligations on Malta, saying operators can no longer absorb the surcharges and rising fuel costs. They've urged the EU to 'reconsider' the carbon pricing system - arguing the system is already 'highly unfair' to Malta due to its geographical location and heavy reliance on shipping. (Times of Malta)
- Fri 17:24Coal-fired power generation and emissions have yet to significantly rebound across the EU amid mild weather and low demand, despite analysts highlighting fuel-switching away from gas due to extreme price spikes in March.
- Fri 17:16EU carbon prices recovered from an initial drop to a new 10-month low to post a modest gain on the day, as a largely quiet market absorbed Thursday's heavy fall with developments in Iran continuing to draw most of the attention, while speculation grew ahead of next week's leaders summit where conversation is expected to include short-term measures to reduce the impact of EUA costs on industry.
- Fri 16:49EU lawmakers should design the bloc’s 2040 climate framework to deliver the targeted 90% GHG emissions cut fully at home, using international carbon credits only as a tightly controlled back‑up, and keeping land sinks and permanent removals in separate, capped pillars, says a Brussels-based NGO.
- The government of Indonesia will pilot a new global framework for standardising carbon credit data as part of efforts to strengthen transparency and interoperability in carbon markets, according to an announcement Friday.
- Fri 15:41Global toy manufacturer Lego Group holds a balance of 42,000 carbon credits after retiring 25,000 units in 2025 as part of a strategy to reduce emissions across its value chain, it said in its latest annual report, published this week.
- Fri 15:20Major European utilities urge EU leaders to maintain robust ETS, electricity marginal pricing systemEight major European power producers have urged EU institutions to maintain the marginal pricing electricity system and a robust Emissions Trading System (ETS), in a letter sent this week.
- Fri 15:14ArcelorMittal is preparing to restart a second blast furnace at its major steelworks in Fos-sur-Mer, signalling a potential rebound for one of France’s largest industrial sites and significant EU ETS-covered emitter.
- Fri 14:53A new procurement service and online marketplace has launched aimed at helping airlines source carbon credits eligible under the UN aviation offsetting scheme CORSIA, the partners behind the project announced Friday.
- Fri 14:28Officials from the Trump administration have been in the EU this week, reportedly pushing for a full US exemption from the bloc’s anti-deforestation regulation ahead of the European Commission’s upcoming review.
- Fri 14:26The UK is overhauling regulations for new nuclear power plants as it seeks to ramp up capacity by 2050, following an independent review that found an “overly complex” and “bureaucratic” system was holding back the industry, it announced Friday.
- Fri 14:21The UK Parliament’s upper chamber has opened a new inquiry into “dynamic alignment” with EU rules, a concept expected to feature prominently in the government’s planned reset of relations with Brussels, including the linking of the two jurisdictions ETSs.
- Fri 14:18A UK-based multinational pharmaceutical company’s carbon credit portfolio reached £10 million in 2025 following additional investments in forward delivery contracts, according to its latest climate disclosure published last week.
- Fri 13:44Gas lobby response to Iran war – Eurogas, a trade body, sent recommendations on the EU’s response to the Iran War, which will be discussed during a meeting of EU27 energy ministers on Mar. 16. The trade group is calling on the European Commission to use existing tools to shield consumers and industry from rising costs. This includes: 1) Harmonising REPowerEU implementation to prevent non‑Russian LNG cargoes from being held up by bureaucracy; 2) Activating gas storage flexibilities to avoid “at any cost” injections; 3) Making interim arrangements on the Methane Regulation so that critical supply contracts can go ahead while implementation is finalised – including a “stop the clock” decision to delay implementation.
- Fri 13:42Loan emissions reductions - Deutsche Bank has made some overall emissions reductions in carbon-intensive sectors of its corporate loan portfolio covered by net zero targets, according to its latest sustainability statement. These include a 25% emissions reduction in upstream oil and gas since 2021, 33% in coal mining emissions since 2022, and 47% in power generation emissions since 2021, wrote the bank's chief sustainability officer, Jorg Eigendorf, on LinkedIn. Also, the emissions intensity in kilograms of CO2 per square metre of its European residential real estate loan portfolio of €160.6 bln fell by 8% last year compared to 2024. Deutsche Bank's sustainable finance reached €98 bln last year, the highest annual amount since 2021.
- Fri 12:28German MEP Peter Liese is urging the EU to allow international carbon credits in its Emissions Trading System (ETS), reviving debate over the potential integration of Paris Agreement Article 6 units into the bloc’s carbon market.
- Fri 11:27The economic costs of enacting EU climate policy from 2028-48 could be reduced by around 20% – or up to €824 billion – if the EU's Emissions Trading System for buildings and road transport (ETS2) were better designed, found a new study.
- Fri 11:23A global bank based in Switzerland plans to begin retiring credits from engineered carbon removal (CDR) from 2026 to match its Scope 1 emissions by 2030, according to its latest sustainability report.
- Sanction lift - The US has announced a 30-day waiver on sanctions of Russian oil at sea in response to rising energy prices and heightening concern about global supplies. The short-term measure only applies to oil already in transit and won't significantly benefit the Russian govt, which derives most of its energy revenue from taxes at the point of extraction, said US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent. Despite this, brent crude remained above $100 per barrel during early trading on Friday. Moscow claimed on Friday it was “increasingly inevitable” that Washington would lift sanctions. (the Guardian)
- Gold Standard has published a new methodology for crediting the early closure of coal-fired power plants, requiring that projects show the historical output is replaced with renewable energy.
- Because carbon's worth it - Cosmetics producer L'Oreal has partnered with clean chemicals company Dioxycle to transform captured carbon emissions into a form of ethylene for use as a building block in polyethylene for packaging. Dioxycle claims the solution is energy and cost efficient, and also cuts emissions. L'Oreal hasn't yet said which products will be packaged using the new material or how much can be used. (edie.net)
- Fri 09:08Pipelines provide the cheapest long-term option for transporting CO2, but trains, trucks, and barges could help small and remote emitters move captured carbon to storage sites faster and at lower cost, experts say.
- Fri 06:19Methane market – Kenya is exploring carbon market opportunities in its livestock sector through biotechnology innovations aimed at reducing methane emissions from cattle. During a meeting, the company Fermfeed Bio and the Office of Kenya's Special Envoy for Climate Change discussed scaling new feed-based technologies that improve livestock productivity while cutting methane emissions by an estimated 50-65%. The technology is already being deployed with dairy cooperatives in Nyandarua and Murang’a counties, where farmers have reported higher milk yields. The initiative is being implemented in collaboration with many local government and private institutions. Stakeholders are also examining how the emissions reductions could be monetised through carbon market mechanisms in line with Kenya’s carbon market regulations.
- Clean power and electrification would do more to shield Europe from future price shocks than weakening the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), a study published Friday by a global energy think tank said, adding that the Middle East war has again exposed the bloc's vulnerability to gas price volatility.
- Fri 01:25New data tool - Carbon market intelligence platform Clever Offsets announced Thursday the launch of its Enterprise Module, which it said provides market participants with structured data and analytical tools to assess delivery risk across categories and portfolios at scale. The new offering is meant to empower market participants to apply their own underwriting frameworks, diversify exposure, and engage with greater confidence, aiming to meet institutional risk appetites and support broader financial participation.
- Fri 00:11Climate-AI fellows - Environmental disclosure non-profit CDP has announced a Google.org Fellowship. The fellowship team will support CDP in building an AI-powered tool to transform how cities, states, and regions use CDP’s environmental dataset to help them reduce risk and drive action for the future.
