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- Thu 19:14A 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.
- 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.
- Thu 16:00Colombia 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.
- Thu 15:05A voluntary carbon registry has listed its first Paris Agreement-aligned project, a clean cooking initiative in Senegal that is set to expand to cover several different programmes in the coming years, it was announced on Thursday.
- Thu 13:19The 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.
- Thu 11:11Stepping into SAF - The first procurement of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) has gone live on carbon removal portfolio manager Climefi's platform, in partnership with The International Aviation Group and British Airways, said ClimeFi co-founder, Sebastien Dewarrat. It reflects growing client demand and helps ClimeFi to coordinate removal purchases alongside SAF, as well as "to consolidate procurement, portfolio, and inventory management", he said on LinkedIn.
- A Canadian bank has signed a deal to purchase 18,000 verified direct air capture (DAC) carbon removal (CDR) credits from a Montreal-headquartered project developer, it was announced on Thursday.
- Open for feedback - The Rainbow Standard has opened a 30-day consultation on its bio-oil in asphalt module under the biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) methodology. Module highlights include that projects are required to demonstrate carbon durability of 100 years or more, and that developers can issue removal credits for both pyrolysis co-products (biochar and bio-oil) within a single certification framework. The consultation is open until June 25. Find out more here.
- 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.
- The UK government needs to create a dedicated carbon reporting office in order to streamline an increasingly fragmented landscape of regulations and approaches to emissions accounting, according to a report published on Thursday.
- Thu 07:01Companies should split net zero targets between emissions cuts they can deliver themselves and reductions that depend on wider system change, as part of a more honest approach to corporate climate commitments, according to a report published Thursday.
- Thu 06:10Optimising 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.
- Thu 05:03An India‑based climate infrastructure company has signed a multi‑year agreement with a carbon removal (CDR) financier to deliver 180,000 tonnes of biochar removals, in what the partners say is one of the largest long‑term offtake deals of its kind from the South Asian country.
- 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.Â
- Thu 01:27Mining 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.
- Thu 01:18The Mexican government is aiming to publish the regulation required to make its emissions trading system (ETS) fully operational by the end of 2026, accompanied by a national programme to boost local supply of carbon credits, according to a federal official.
