A Canadian-headquartered forestry company this week reported progress towards its climate targets, including lower emissions and new revenues from carbon market activities, in its latest sustainability report.

Natural forest expansion across the moist tropics has sequestered more above-ground carbon than secondary forests, but the sink remains far smaller than emissions from tropical forest loss, according to a new study.

EU-approved CORSIA Phase 1 supply, based on provisional eligibility criteria, could reach as many as 160 million credits across the three-year period, according to a rating agency, but the company urged that Brussels takes a more moderate stance as this total is unlikely to be anywhere near as high in reality.

A UK energy-from-waste wood company has submitted a planning application to add carbon capture technology to an existing bioenergy plant, it announced last week.

Colombia has published a draft carbon markets decree addressing technical and safeguarding concerns with tools that don’t yet exist, also imposing new responsibilities on domestic and international entities, but leaving key implementation questions open.

The European Commission is facing mounting criticism over its forthcoming rulebook for certifying carbon farming activities, with campaigners warning that the framework risks undermining environmental integrity just as the EU seeks to expand carbon removals alongside its emissions trading and carbon border policies.

The effectiveness of the Joint Crediting Mechanism (JCM) remains constrained by institutional complexity and insufficient partner engagement, but Tokyo's move to scale up nature-based projects may address the issue of limited credit issuance, a new paper argued.

Papua New Guinea has set a pathway to reach net zero emissions by 2030 and become net-negative by 2035 under a near-final update to its national climate pledge, while simultaneously securing new EU funding to strengthen climate finance, forest monitoring, and biodiversity governance.

Optimising composting practices using machine learning could transform the global organic waste sector from a net greenhouse gas emitter into a carbon sink while conserving nutrients for agriculture, according to a new study.

Taking the initiative – Intergovernmental organisation the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) and the government of Indonesia have launched a new phase of the Green Indonesia Future Initiative (GIFT), running from 2026-30, the Korea-based group said in a press release. This builds on work done so far under this partnership, which has delivered an estimated 183.5 MtCO2e of emissions reductions, mobilised $776.5 mln of green investment across the economy, and created 271,095 jobs, GGGI said, in sectors such as forestry, blue carbon, and energy. Under the next chapter, GIFT is aiming to mobilise $2 bln of green investment by 2030 – more than doubling what it has so far delivered – as the country seeks to make progress on its Paris Agreement NDC and the Indonesian Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan.

Several governments across Latin America and the Caribbean are studying how to replicate Argentina's Misiones programme after it became the first jurisdictional REDD+ initiative approved under Verra's Jurisdictional and Nested REDD+ (JNR) Framework, the standard's regional representative told Carbon Pulse. 

Mining activities across sub-Saharan Africa have triggered far more deforestation beyond mine boundaries than within them, with every hectare of forest directly cleared for mining associated with nearly 34 additional hectares of offsite forest loss, according to a new study.

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) has awarded C$130 million ($93.6 mln) in federal funding to 56 forestry innovation projects, ranging from new low-carbon wood technologies, to supporting Indigenous participation and forest-sector businesses.