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- 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.
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Green Gables - The city of Coral Gables, Florida has launched a climate technology initiative with Carbon Standard to convert municipal organic waste into biochar and generate carbon removal credits. The project processes yard trimmings and landscaping debris using modular pyrolysis units, turning biomass waste into stable biochar that can store carbon for centuries. The resulting material is used in city landscaping and soil restoration, improving soil water retention and nutrient capacity. By certifying the carbon removals through Carbon Standard’s accounting framework, the city aims to produce high-integrity carbon credits that can be sold to companies seeking to offset emissions. This creates a potential revenue stream to help fund the programme while addressing the challenge of managing urban organic waste that would otherwise be mulched or sent to landfill, where it could release methane. Officials say the initiative has already diverted thousands of tonnes of organic waste from landfills and could serve as a model for other municipalities seeking to link waste management, soil health, and carbon removal. (Biochar Today)
- Fri 22:02Increasing investment in forest-based climate solutions could significantly boost carbon sequestration in the US by 2035, according to new preprint research.
- Fri 21:40First in Salta - Argentina’s carbon market continues to develop slowly and largely at the provincial level, with the northern province of Salta reporting the first carbon credit sales from a local REDD+ project, the government announced this week. Authorities said the privately led Selva de Urundel REDD+ initiative, registered under Verra, sold some 300,000 credits after completing its first monitoring period. The project, located in the Oran department, marks the first private initiative in Salta to receive issuance and commercialise credits under international standards.
- Fri 20:23Scientists have identified a widespread shift in the structure of Amazon rainforest canopies towards younger, more photosynthetically efficient leaves over the past two decades, a trend that could have implications for the performance and modelling of forest carbon offset projects.
- 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 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 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 14:18A 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 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.
- Fri 10:32A Perth-based energy company has agreed to acquire up to 6.6 million carbon credits from forestry and mangrove restoration projects in Mexico and Indonesia, a US law firm that advised on the transaction announced on Thursday.
- 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.
