Two UK-based investment advisory and management firms have merged to accelerate investment in large-scale nature restoration projects across the Global South, they said on Tuesday.

A carbon removal registry and standards developer has launched a public consultation on a new framework designed to quantify CO2 removal from enhanced weathering projects using a combination of field measurements and predictive models.

The UK government will need to subsidise a fixed price for carbon removal credits when it integrates them into the country's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), at a cost of around £147 million per year, and more in the future, according to new research.

Countries are relying too heavily on bioenergy to reduce carbon emissions in their national Paris Agreement pledges, which spells bad news for forests and climate as huge swathes of land are eaten up for growing biomass, according to environmental and social justice groups.

Large-scale deployment of CO2 removal technologies could substantially reduce the cost of reaching net zero emissions in the US and generate trillions of dollars in revenues for project developers, but may also lead to worse air quality outcomes than pathways that rely more heavily on direct emissions cuts, according to a new study.

India needs to add agriculture to its list of Article 6.2‑eligible activities, to tap into the country’s carbon credit potential and enter international compliance markets, a study found.

An Indonesian palm oil company plans to present a biochar pilot this week that aims to convert palm biomass residues into carbon removals.

Korean offsets – South Korea has approved 20 new external reduction projects expected to cut 73,433 tonnes of CO2e annually, while certifying 329,306 credits from 13 existing projects for potential use in the country’s ETS, the country's climate ministry said last week. The newly approved projects include heat pumps for agricultural greenhouses, solar power facilities in buildings and public facilities, fuel conversion, vegetation restoration, sulphur hexafluoride recovery, high-efficiency compressor replacement, and biomass fuel use.

A South African rangeland restoration programme is seeking a Verra-approved validation and verification body (VVB) to assess an initial project area covering more than 173,000 hectares, it announced last week.

Goals - Myanmar's President Min Aung Hlaing called for greater focus on renewable energy, forest conservation, climate-resilient agriculture, improved cookstoves, solar-powered rural electrification, and electric vehicles as part of the country's efforts to reduce emissions and implement its Paris Agreement commitments, according to state media. He said Myanmar plans to plant more than 21 mln trees across roughly 12,000 ha in 2026 and continue annual mangrove restoration programmes through 2030. The president said over 269.8 mln trees had been planted between 2016-25, while more than 64,000 ha of plantations were established during 2021-25. He also said protected forests and natural areas account for about 50% of the country's land area.

Above the clouds - Giant trees in the mountains of Taiwan could be vital, overlooked carbon sinks, but they face the risk of extinction within the next two centuries, Taipei Times reported, citing the latest findings. A group of arborists, spatial scientists, geologists, and mountaineers has discovered the tallest tree on the island, which is also the tallest recorded in East Asia. Old-growth forests of giant trees are mostly found in Taiwan’s deepest and most forbidding mountain ranges, which are difficult to survey, according to the team, which has also found alarming signs regarding the survival of Taiwan’s ancient trees.

Fiji’s Ministry of Finance has ended the country’s participation in the World Bank‑backed Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Carbon Fund Emission Reductions Program (ERP), after failing to meet key requirements, a World Bank report said.