A sustainable land-use project in the Republic of the Congo has secured catalytic technical-assistance funding to support environmental and social studies aimed at advancing the project towards investment readiness.

a New York-based investor this week announced a carbon stream financing vehicle focused on voluntary carbon market projects, with an initial emphasis on Central Asia.

A newly launched CO2 removals developer has emerged with plans to build a portfolio of community-focused forestry and biomass projects.

A Sydney-based investment manager and forestry firm launched its first global natural capital strategy fund, which will invest across forestry, agriculture, carbon, and biodiversity markets.

Brazil’s National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) have announced five new forest restoration and agroforestry financing operations worth R$834 million ($164 mln), expected to leverage a total of R$2.7 billion in investments and generate millions of carbon credits.

Staff at global standard Greenhouse Gas Protocol have responded with detailed steps of an independent review conducted after scientists on the Independent Standards Board (ISB) raised concerns internally regarding deliberations over forest carbon accounting.

Europe’s food and drink industry could cut greenhouse gas emissions by 85% from 2020 levels by 2050, exceeding the reductions required under science-based guidance, but only if policymakers channel more carbon pricing revenues and targeted support into low-carbon technologies, according to a sectoral net zero roadmap presented in Brussels on Thursday.

Guidance underpinning the rapidly expanding blue carbon sector frequently overlooks key tenure rights and international obligations to Indigenous peoples, coastal communities, and small-scale fishers, potentially exposing local groups to dispossession and exclusion from project benefits, researchers have warned.

The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM) could help carbon markets move beyond individual projects and deliver mitigation at scale, but regulators still need to close key methodological, governance, and demand gaps, according to a report released Tuesday.

A Colombian carbon crediting standard has opened a public consultation on a revised biochar methodology, with updates aimed at strengthening rules on biomass eligibility, permanence, leakage, uncertainty, and long-term storage.

Nature-based solutions deserve stronger support in the newly released Science Based Targets initiative's (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2.0, though they still have a clear pathway to scale, according to some carbon market stakeholders, who pointed to the standard's prioritisation of engineered removals to help companies tackle hard-to-abate emissions later down the line.

Armed conflict and policy uncertainty are making parts of the international carbon market harder to insure just as the EU looks to lean more on overseas credits, according to Bilal Hussain, co-founder and CEO of carbon credit insurer Artio.

A digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) provider has partnered with a Danish biogas operator to provide data infrastructure for a five-site bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project in Denmark, the firms said last week.

Verra has issued a number of corrections and clarification for version 2.2 of its VM0042 methodology for Improved Land Management that was released in October.

The provincial government of Southwest Papua is working on a jurisdiction-based carbon programme in preparation for future directions from Jakarta, local media reported Friday.

From sea to land - The Western Australian government has granted an aquaculture licence to SeaStock to grow asparagopsis seaweed at scale at an onshore facility in Perth currently under construction, it announced. The government said SeaStock has developed an innovative onshore cultivation technique that provides consistent, quality biomass and high yield. The facility will be the state's first commercial-scale seaweed production facility, with the asparagopsis being fed to livestock to reduce methane emissions, among other uses. The federal government recently tapped Meat and Livestock Australia to develop a new beef herd management method under the Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) Scheme to include feed additive technologies as an eligible activity for crediting.

The EU may need to integrate CO2 removals into its emissions trading system as a "safety valve" to prevent allowance prices from spiralling if deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS) and green hydrogen infrastructure continues to lag expectations, according to a new report.

Europe’s forests are on course to miss a carbon sink target consistent with the EU’s 2030 climate goals by more than a quarter, as rising natural disturbances and continued harvesting erode their capacity to absorb emissions, according to a study published this week.

UK farm soil carbon stocks may be significantly underestimated by current accounting methodologies, with early findings from a major British environmental baselining project indicating that at least 30% of soil organic carbon lies below the depth commonly measured in carbon assessments.

Sao Paulo state has launched a five-year, R$30 million ($5.9 mln) programme to develop Brazil's first bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) pilot project for sugarcane ethanol.