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.

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help fill GHG data gaps, but may also amplify uncertainty and reduce transparency if not carefully validated, a webinar heard on Tuesday.

A Canadian carbon removal (CDR) company has landed a major research deal with a federal body to launch a nearly C$7.5 million ($5.4 mln) research project.

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

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.

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.

Aligning with Paris - Gold Standard has launched its Paris Agreement-aligned templates - those both for project developers and validation and verification bodies, it said on LinkedIn. The update is intended to raise market integrity and to reduce admin burden by integrating Paris Agreement requirements directly into core documents, including the project design document (PDD), programme of activities design document (PoA-DD), voluntary project activity design document (VPA-DD), and monitoring reports. The templates are effective immediately for new projects and existing projects can voluntarily opt to transition early.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Brunei Darussalam is set to tap its vast forest resources for international carbon markets, media reported.

Communications push - The Super Pollutant Action Alliance (SPAA), a project of US non-profit Multiplier, is seeking a consultant to test how policymakers, funders, journalists, scientists, and communicators respond to language around near-term warming and fast-acting climate mitigation. The work will cover methane, black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons, and tropospheric ozone, and include testing in the US, EU, China, India, and other geographies ahead of COP31. The contract, estimated at $325,000-475,000, will run from June to Oct. 2026, with proposals due June 5.

UN platform revamp - The UNFCCC secretariat has recommended repurposing the CDM voluntary cancellation platform to allow voluntary cancellation of Article 6.4 MCUs and eligible second commitment period CERs, while excluding authorised Article 6.4 emission reductions due to complexity and cost. The existing platform, launched in 2015, has facilitated the cancellation of around 16 mln CERs from almost 300 projects, but would need $265,000 in one-off development and software upgrades, plus $120,000 in annual maintenance, to integrate with the Article 6.4 mechanism registry and address security vulnerabilities. The CDM registry is due to close for transactions on Dec. 31, 2026, meaning the platform would be shut down unless a decision is taken, with the secretariat asking the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body to reach an agreed outcome by its twenty-second meeting in July.

Biochar boost - The Climate Trust (TCT) said it is exploring biochar carbon projects to help dry inland forest managers in the western US reduce wildfire risk while generating revenue from fuel reduction treatments. The Oregon-based non-profit said biochar production could turn small-diameter wood, deadwood, and other forest debris from pre-commercial thinning into a soil amendment that stores carbon, improves water retention, and reduces fertiliser needs, while cutting the cost of forest management through carbon credit and biochar sales.

Indonesia’s development of its forest carbon market is running into concerns over export levies, taxation, regulatory uncertainty, and technical bottlenecks, according to experts and stakeholders.

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.

Vietnam has finalised rules governing forest carbon credit trading, paving the way for the Southeast Asian country’s first issuances later this year.

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.