Modelling the carbon curve - London-based venture capital firm Counteract has launched the Carbon Curve tool for investors to explore the financial dynamics of carbon removal (CDR) projects as the industry scales. For investors, the tool illustrates conditions for early returns in CDR, and for developers, it can help optimise variables such as capex and opex that affect capital costs and project viability.

Transition trouble - A new analysis of 400 major financial institutions found that climate transition planning is becoming more common, but financing for low-carbon activities and fossil fuel phase-out commitments remain limited, with just over a third of institutions assessed having transition plans that address at least some financial activities. The World Benchmarking Alliance analysis found that only 26% of institutions provide clarity on the share of financed activity allocated to low-carbon solutions, unchanged from its 2025 assessment, while low-carbon activities accounted for an average 2.7% of total financed activity across the group. It also found that only two companies, ING and Zurcher Kantonalbank, had robust restrictions covering coal, oil, and gas, including commitments to phase out existing exposure and stop new financing flows, raising questions about the credibility of most transition plans without stronger fossil fuel exit policies.

A cohort of five nature-based project developers from around the world have completed a German-based offset platform’s fourth accelerator programme.

Illicit financial flows linked to timber trade mispricing may be higher than previously estimated, averaging $289 million annually in Cameroon and $214 mln in Brazil, according to a new report.

Prices for Phase 1 CORSIA-eligible carbon credits continued to fall last week as uncertainty around the international aviation offsetting scheme and persistently high jet fuel prices weighed on market sentiment, pushing thoughts of future compliance lower down carriers’ list of priorities.

European carbon prices broke above the upper end of an emerging pennant formation and set a 15-week high on Tuesday as the market shrugged off bearish news headlines from the Middle East and took heart from a strong rally in UKAs, as optimism flowered anew that the EU and UK may reach a deal on market linking at their next summit meeting in the summer, while also taking a more bullish view of EU ETS reform.

Morocco this month inked another bilateral Article 6.2 agreement, as the government is finally putting in place market infrastructure to support its ‘learning by doing’ approach, while Oman produced a concrete roadmap outlining its carbon market priorities.

Lawmakers in the European Parliament are poised to clash on whether to introduce additional climate conditions for European companies to access support from the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund (TDF).

The Congo Basin needs a boost of investment, strengthened governance, and coordinated action in order to ward off mounting pressure on its resources and remain a vital carbon sink, including through more forestry carbon crediting projects, a UN-backed panel of scientists warned on Tuesday. 

The EU’s flagship Emissions Trading System (ETS) puts a short-term drag on jobs when allowance prices rise unexpectedly, with workers in carbon-intensive roles hit hardest and green job gains failing to fully offset the losses, according to new research by the European Central Bank.

A Germany-based airline has announced that its customers contributed to climate protection projects covering more than 710,000 tonnes of CO2 in 2025, an increase of around one-fifth year-on-year.

Chemicals crisis - The European chemical industry is battling intense cost pressure due to high energy prices and is also one of the hardest to decarbonise. But despite facing structural disadvantages compared to oil and gas-rich regions, the sector could benefit from targeted policies that create wide-scale demand for green materials and strategies that break dependence on fossil-based supply chains. A report by the Wuppertal Institute suggests that targeted R&D investment would help to decouple specialty chemicals from fossil feedstocks, while circular economy measures implemented through clusters would help European chemicals to regain competitive strength. Big new investments are also required to boot productivity, as well as govt policies to unlock large-scale demand for green materials.

The CEO of large carbon removal developer Climeworks has called on governments and corporations to expand their support for new technologies, warning that the industry cannot rely on a small group of early adopters to scale operations fast enough to meet global climate goals.

A Belgian startup has raised €17.5 million in Series A funding to scale its plasma-based carbon utilisation technology, it announced Tuesday.

Campaigners are urging the EU to reject proposals to dilute its green finance rulebook, denouncing plans that would effectively allow companies to expand fossil fuel activities while still claiming a "transition" label under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

Biodiversity credits are the ecosystem services market closest to becoming commercially viable as a funding source in their own right, but for now most nature value is still being priced indirectly, the head of a nature-based solutions financier has said.

The global sustainable debt market has surged in activity since 2020, with cumulative aligned issuance now having surpassed $7 trillion, according to the latest data from a non profit.

The fertiliser crisis, driven by the Iran war and rising energy costs, makes clear that defenders of the EU's carbon pricing regime are increasingly isolated, and scarce – with Denmark alone in clearly backing the ETS and carbon border fee when agricultural ministers met on Tuesday.

A removals registry has certified a new module for biochar produced in mobile reactors, supporting projects that transport reactors between sites.

A €20 million carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) plant has begun producing low-carbon aggregates at the Port of Bilbao in Spain, using industrial CO2 from a nearby refinery and thermal residues that would otherwise typically be sent to landfill.

A direct ocean carbon capture developer has issued an urgent call for investment or said it will file for bankruptcy this week.

Annual demand for Article 6 carbon credits, generated by proposed rules to allow them to be deducted from EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) fees, could theoretically rise to more than 17 million tonnes through 2040, analysts have said, but limitations imposed by Brussels mean that, at least in the near term, buying is likely to be a fraction of that potential volume.

Biodiversity credits could become the next premium layer of carbon markets, rewarding projects that protect nature as well as store carbon, the head of a climate finance company has said in a paper.

A procurement and intelligence platform has launched a library of forward vintage curves for credits issued on the voluntary carbon market.

An agreement to buy 750,000 tonnes of carbon removals from a Swedish bioenergy carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility sees a new market entrant buy at a scale approaching that typically reserved for the American tech giants, notably Microsoft.

Airline exposure - European airlines Lufthansa, British Airways parent IAG Group, and Air France-KLM, would each face additional costs of €1.8 bln, €1.7 bln, and €1.5 bln respectively in 2027 were Brussels to extend the EU ETS to flights leaving the bloc, according to projections by consultancy Transition Metrics. The extra costs would amount to about 44% of Lufthansa’s 2025 earnings, 23% for IAG Group, and 30% for Air France-KLM, which are "material" costs that complicate the companies' hedging of their 2027 compliance, the firm said. The estimates are based on the airlines’ current carbon emissions and a projected carbon price of €120/t, which Transition Metrics says are realistic if the full extension of the ETS were applied. Officials are considering extending the scheme that presently applies only to intra-EU flights to all flights departing the bloc, depending on their assessment of the effectiveness of international offset scheme CORSIA. (FT)

A global exchange industry body has drafted principles for stock exchanges to label listed companies and IPO candidates with credible climate transition plans, it announced Tuesday.

Europe's only Verra-certified improved forest management (IFM) project has paid to have the activity fully assessed by a ratings agency after finding out earlier 'estimated' quality scores were too low to attract buyers, its developer told Carbon Pulse.

The first EU-backed transaction registered under the bloc’s Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) scheme will deliver its initial credits in 2029, according to the partners involved in the project.

A new academic study has proposed a machine learning recommendation framework designed to minimise carbon emissions from AI model development by predicting the environmental impact of training runs before they occur, with the researchers claiming the approach could cut emissions from model selection by more than 98%.

A carbon removals financier has partnered with a London-based biochar and biocarbon project authentication platform to apply independent scientific analysis and authentication services across its global CDR portfolio, in a move aimed at bolstering transparency, permanence assurance, and operational performance in the fast-growing sector.