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.

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.

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.

European carbon prices fell for the sixth time in seven days, shrugging off a big surge across energy markets to reach a new 11-month low, as traders watched from news from an EU summit at which leaders were discussing ways to reduce the bloc's energy costs, including measures to reduce carbon prices, while spot UKA prices continued their decline to within £5 of the new floor price.

The European Central Bank has revised its EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) price outlook lower for the 2026-28 period, despite a sharp upward change to its inflation forecast.

Money for fEUsion - The European Commission has earmarked €222 mln to push fusion energy from labs to the power grids, as part of its Euratom Research and Training Programme for 2026-27, it announced on Thursday. The new work programme is aimed at boosting energy independence, competitiveness, and technological leadership. The money for fusion will go towards a new European public-private partnership aimed at developing commercially viable technologies and a domestic supply chain, plus support for startups and research.

An airline trade body is calling for the EU to reform the Emission Trading System (ETS) and let all international flights, including those within the European Economic Area (EEA), be subject to CORSIA, the international aviation offsetting scheme.

Stacking carbon, biodiversity, and water at the MRV level would improve efficiency for participants in the EU’s public certification scheme for carbon removal activities, however markets for each credit type should be kept separate, a summit heard on Thursday.

Switzerland should prioritise domestic removal projects 'as far as possible', a body for the sector has urged the government in response to a consultation on the country's net zero framework.

The Innovation Fund, which channels revenues from the EU ETS to innovative decarbonisation projects, is failing to deliver the expected level of greenhouse gas emissions reductions, concluded the European Court of Auditors (ECA) in a new report.

Two months after the EU greenlighted auctions to support up to 12 GW of new gas power plants, the German government has yet to submit a related draft law to Brussels, news outlet Der Spiegel reported on Wednesday.

CDR assessment - EU member states national energy and climate plans (NECPs) are falling short in delivering a proper assessment of how permanent carbon removals will be deployed to help achieve net zero, concluded Carbon Market Watch (CMW) in a new study. The most popular carbon removal technologies present key challenges as they compete for clean energy, water, and land, and can put pressure on food production, biodiversity, and the local community rights, it said. CMW therefore urges stronger governance at EU level, including through a dedicated space in NECPs for permanent carbon removal work and a clear definition of carbon removal overreliance as insufficient climate ambition.

A proposal to remove natural gas power plants from the EU’s carbon market could dramatically reshape Europe’s electricity system – cutting prices in the short term but triggering wide-ranging economic and environmental consequences, according to new analysis published on Thursday.

The European Union plans to begin preparing earlier for the year-end United Nations climate conferences and adopt a more “realistic” multi-year strategy after what many described as a disappointing performance at last year’s talks.

Construction of a major carbon capture demonstration plant in Germany has entered its final assembly phase and will start operating in mid-2026, the developers have announced.

The UK will allocate around £6 billion to international climate finance (ICF) over the next three years, compared to a £11.6 bln five-year commitment for 2021-26, as part of wider changes to its development spending, the government said on Thursday.

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.

The UK government wants up to half of the country's steel use to be made domestically, and for the industry to move towards electrification, under new plans to protect critical manufacturing resource.

Emissions disclosure alone is not enough for the food industry, a UK-based consultancy has argued, suggesting businesses instead deploy a new metric connecting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with corporate gross value added (GVA).

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.

War in the Middle East is dominating talks on industrial competitiveness at an EU summit opening Thursday, with a draft leaders’ statement calling for planned reform of the bloc's Emissions Trading System (ETS) to be presented “by July 2026 at the latest”, as well as urging near-term energy price containment measures.

A coalition of European industry and climate organisations has called on EU policymakers to launch a sweeping new investment strategy, warning that the bloc faces a historic moment requiring urgent and coordinated financial action.

A nationally replicable UK model for coordinating public and private investment into nature-based solutions (NbS) has been published in a report on Thursday by the Green Finance Institute (GFI).