A nature-based carbon project developer has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise up to €700,000, as smaller firms in the voluntary carbon market explore alternative financing routes.

Ukraine's CBAM pact - Ukraine and Sweden will aim to make accreditation procedures for verifiers easier under the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the duo announced late on Friday. The move will allow Ukrainian exporters to verify greenhouse gas emissions for CBAM using actual data rather than default values, according to the country's ministry of economy, environment, and agriculture. The Swedish Board for Accreditation and Conformity Assessment (SWEDAC) agreed to accredit Ukrainian verification bodies, with representitives of both countries set to meet next week to discuss the legalities of their partnership. Steel industry representatives recently called on the Commission to delay the application of CBAM on Ukraine exporter for three years, suggesting they need time to recver from the war. The bloc's executive may be prepared to delay the full rollout of the CBAM for Ukraine until Feb. 1, 2027, according to Ukraine’s environment ministry, though Kyiv has yet to submit a formal request, local media reported last May.

A global shift toward cross-border due diligence rules in environmental value chains has not missed Colombia or its carbon market, creating legal vulnerabilities for financial institutions and potentially carbon credit buyers, according to a Colombian environmental attorney.

TFFF governance – Norway will join Brazil as co-chair of the Tropical Forest Forever Facility (TFFF), the country announced on Thursday on the sidelines of the World Bank’s Spring Meetings in Washington, DC. Launched during COP30, the fund aims to secure long-term financing for rainforest preservation. On that occasion, Norway also pledged up to $3 billion in loans to the TFFF.

EUAs posted their largest weekly increase since November 2024 as an early jump amid thin liquidity was followed in the afternoon by a second surge of buying amid growing signs that a peace deal between the United States and Iran could open the Strait of Hormuz to all commercial traffic.

It’s official – The delegated regulation setting out methodologies to certify permanent carbon removals in the European Union was published in the EU’s Official Journal on Apr. 17. The delegated act aims to measure the sequestration of CO2 from three permanent carbon removal techniques: direct air capture with carbon storage (DACCS), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), and biochar carbon removals (BCR). The act was passed after a failed attempt by the Greens and left-wing groups to block the methodologies in the European Parliament.

EU greenhouse gas emissions dropped by 3% in 2024, pushing total net domestic reductions to 40% below 1990 levels, but still short of the bloc’s 55% target for 2030, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in its annual submission to the UN.

The European Commission will urge EU governments to channel revenues from the bloc’s emissions trading system (ETS) into electrification as part of its “Accelerate EU Energy Union” response to the energy shock caused by the Middle East conflict, according to a leaked draft seen by Carbon Pulse.

The European chemical industry has proposed creating a ‘savings account’ for revenues generated by the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS), which companies could draw on to finance decarbonisation investments when needed.

Swedish accelerator – An investment programme, backed by a government body in Sweden, announced eight energy and climate projects will join its 2026 cohort. Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, the accelerator programme aims to support early-stage companies develop energy transition technology. A total 22 companies applied, with the eight winners set to begin the programme's investor readiness activities from April. The succcesful applicants are focused on transition innovations including recovering waste heat from data centres, battery materials, rapid EV charging, and biomass to biochar conversion.

Brokers in the voluntary carbon market are seeing a growth in multi-year offtakes from corporate buyers who have become more selective in their procurement, and are seeking nature-based removals in particular, they told Carbon Pulse.

The UK government is looking at ways to break the link between the cost of electricity and gas prices, in a bid to ease pressure on consumers and businesses battling higher power prices driven by the Iran war.

A French ministry official expects the EU to purchase as many as 716 mln international carbon credits in 2036-40 to help meet the bloc's new climate target, an official told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of the European Climate Summit in Barcelona.

The European Union is drafting plans to tackle ​a looming jet fuel supply crunch and maximise refinery output, officials have told Reuters, amid news a major airline is already set to cut flights due to high jet fuel prices.

A new study has put a price tag on climate “loss and damage” at levels far above many existing benchmarks, finding that the bulk of harm from past emissions has yet to be felt and could run into tens of trillions of dollars globally.

Carbon analysts from two firms see UK carbon prices averaging above £60 in 2026 as the prospects of linking the market with the EU ETS should narrow spreads to European permits, though they warned of political downside risks in the second half of the year if a mid-year EU-UK summit is delayed or talks fail to make a breakthrough.

A US-based non-profit has released a global, high-resolution dataset tracking aboveground biomass over more than two decades, in a move that could strengthen monitoring, baselining, and verification across carbon markets and nature-based solutions.