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- The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued new guidance for companies to improve financial accounting and disclosure of environmental credits.
- Thu 20:23Data centre developers are unlikely to integrate carbon removal (CDR) into projects at scale unless hyperscale tenants, policy incentives, and long-term offtake agreements make it part of the commercial structure, according to legal and industry experts.
- Thu 20:06The UN body overseeing implementation of the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) has approved a new methodology to reduce N2O emissions from nitric acid production.
- CDR hire - Residual, a carbon asset developer, has appointed Julien Jacob as Vice President of Finance to lead project finance and offtake strategy across the company's pipeline, which spans eight projects. Jacob joins from Puro.earth, where he spent four years as Head of Offtakes & Investments Before carbon, Jacob spent eight years in structured commodity finance across investment banks and capital-raising advisory firms.
- Thu 16:24Carbon removal (CDR) developers across Europe urged countries to create national strategies for the sector, including clear plans for transporting captured CO2 to storage sites, during workshop in Brussels held this week.
- Thu 14:23The aviation sector's international carbon offsetting scheme could face a shortage of eligible credits by 2028 under medium- and high-emissions scenarios, according to analysts, even though only a small portion of expected demand is currently covered by explicit non-compliance penalties.Â
- Thu 14:19Developing countries should build clear domestic rules for carbon crediting while relying where possible on established international standards and infrastructure to avoid slowing market access, the World Bank said in a legal guide published this week.
- Thu 14:16The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has unveiled a new 2026-30 strategy that will see it pivot from a generalised approach to more tailored support across sectors and geographies for corporates aiming to reach net zero, with a direct reference in the plan to the possible use of 'high-integrity' carbon credits as a "complement" for emission reductions.
- Thu 13:41ART credits on Sylvera - Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART) credits are now hosted on carbon data platform Sylvera, according to a LinkedIn announcement. Every ART-listed programme including Guyana's ART TREES credits that alone account for over 75% of CORSIA Phase 1 supply, now sits in Sylvera's project catalogue, with data covering issuances, retirements, and cancellations. "With the World Bank's FCPF Carbon Fund now CORSIA Phase 1 eligible and selling through the ART registry, even more demand will flow through ART," said Sylvera.
- Direct air capture (DAC) is unlikely to reach a billion-tonne scale by 2050 unless governments move quickly to boost early capacity, according to a study published this month.
- Thu 11:53A large European airline has signed a multi-year offtake agreement with a Berlin-based broker, doubling the share of permanent carbon removals in its credit portfolio.
- Thu 11:40Germany’s Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMUV) has launched a new initiative to develop high‑integrity carbon removals in Africa, backed by funding from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) and implemented by the development agency GIZ.
- A carbon removals registry has certified a protocol for reducing landfill methane, the first of which it has published in the super pollutants category.
- Thu 11:33The European Commission and private sector players formally launched the EU's carbon removals buyers' club in Brussels this week, though the organisation's governance and legal structure remain to be clarified.
- Thu 09:19The UN's international aviation offsetting scheme is slowly growing, but has the potential to take off quickly if supply and demand fall into lockstep, the founder of a carbon markets analysis company told Carbon Pulse.
- Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, is preparing an extensive push into carbon markets, with officials targeting the launch of a sub-national emissions trading system (ETS) by mid-2027 while developing a pipeline of Article 6 and voluntary carbon market projects spanning forestry, transport, waste, energy, and clean water.
- Thu 07:15Project developers in developing countries face short-term economic strain as carbon credit methodologies are brought into line with the Core Carbon Principles (CCP), but the move is already yielding higher prices and renewed buyer confidence, said Amy Merrill, CEO of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM).
- Thu 07:00A carbon market assets company on Thursday announced a series of transactions aimed at turning carbon removals into longer-term financial assets.
- Thu 01:49Open system carbon removal (CDR) projects need larger deployments and shared datasets to reduce monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) uncertainty that is raising credit costs and limiting scale, experts said on Wednesday.
