A model that aggregates buyer demand through a centralised request for proposal (RFP) process for sourcing carbon removals (CDR) can reduce transaction costs and improve access to vetted supply, panellists said during a Thursday webinar.

Efforts to scale up ecosystem restoration are accelerating across regions, but ongoing approval of extractive activities, weak coordination, and limited enforcement capacity are raising doubts over whether countries can meet 2030 targets, specialists said during a webinar this week.

Nature's premium hike - US home insurance premiums have risen nearly three times faster than inflation since 2021, driven by severe weather and natural disasters, according to insurance company Insurify. The average annual premium reached $2,948 in 2025 - up 46% since 2021 against 16% inflation - and is projected to climb a further 4% to $3,057 by the end of 2026. Severe convective storms caused more than $52 bln in insured losses in 2025, the third-highest on record, while the Jan. 2025 Los Angeles wildfires became the costliest non-hurricane disaster in US history at $62 bln.

A coalition of 40 US states, cities, and territories have asked a federal appeals court to overturn the Trump administration’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding, calling the move an unlawful attempt to roll back federal limits on CO2 emissions.

Gulf Coast carbon capture and storage (CCS) hubs could leave US taxpayers paying for hundreds of billions in federal subsidies while deploying technology untested at the scale proposed, a new analysis said.

Companies must use a final accounting standard for land-based emissions and removals from 2027 under updated guidance that revises timelines and tightens no-deforestation rules.

New analysis by a Canadian think tank has found Alberta is underestimating its emissions data and the province’s claim that it met its methane reduction target ahead of schedule is “not credible”.

The Brazilian Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) has filed three public civil actions against carbon credit projects in the state of Amazonas for allegedly violating the rights of Indigenous Peoples and traditional communities, it announced on Thursday.

Oregon officials are weighing electrification, hydrogen, and changes to consumption patterns to close the gap on state climate targets, according to draft modelling released Monday.

A German-headquartered carbon offset platform has selected six early-stage nature-based project developers for the fourth cohort of its accelerator, marking the programme’s first edition dedicated to land-based CDR activities.

Fresh eyes - Climate tech company Spiritus has announced two leadership appointments - Kip Hensley has joined as head of project development, while Dorian West has joined the company's board of directors. Spiritus pairs high-efficiency natural gas generation with point-source carbon capture and direct air capture (DAC) driven by waste heat. Hensley joins Spiritus after eight years at Brightmark where he developed and managed renewable natural gas plants across the US, and will now guide Spiritus's first commercial-scale efforts in Wyoming. West joins Spiritus’s board after 15 years at Tesla, where he was an early employee and held engineering leadership roles. He will support the company’s next phase of engineering scale-up as it moves from technical validation into larger systems built for commercial deployment, stated the press release.

New York lawmakers are advancing a corporate climate disclosure bill that could contribute to a broader convergence of emissions reporting rules across US states, potentially pushing companies toward a single reporting framework even without federal regulation.

A wide range of sub-national rates have been proposed by an expert UN panel that will be used to calculate how many units a cookstove project can generate under Article 6.4 carbon crediting.

A US-based regenerative agriculture company is unveiling a new environmental asset division to issue carbon credits generated through soil carbon sequestration (SOC) and other climate improvement practices.

Missile attacks on the world’s largest gas field in Qatar has fundamentally changed the outlook for liquefied natural gas (LNG) globally, leaving Asia under pressure to reduce demand, and Europe cutting down on spring storage plans while prolonging coal-fired generation, analysts said Thursday.

Proposed revisions to how companies calculate their Scope 2 emissions under the Greenhouse Gas Protocol could result in higher market-based emissions, even without changes in the underlying electricity consumption, analysts said on Wednesday.

Guyana has sold jurisdictional forest carbon credits to 19 international airlines over the past 18 months, a senior government official said, as demand for CORSIA-eligible units grows ahead of tightening aviation offsetting requirements.

Virginia's solar backslide – Virginia installed only 716 MW of solar in 2025 – less than half of its 2024 figure and the lowest since 2019 – even as the US added a record 43 GW nationally, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Virginia ranked ninth nationally for total installed solar capacity at 7.6 GW, with solar supplying just under 9.5% of the state's electricity. However, this trend might reverse as Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) has a goal to boost solar capacity and rejoin the RGGI cap-and-trade programme as part of her energy affordability agenda.

A developer of nature-based infrastructure assets and a nature-based solutions (NbS) carbon project developer will share risks and long-term project value via a new co-development model, they announced Thursday in connection with an afforestation and reforestation (A/R) initiative.