A North American methane mitigation and well-plugging company has raised $2.4 million in fresh capital and secured several new energy-sector clients as it expands its remediation operations across the United States and prepares for international growth.

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.

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.

The Dutch government has retired nearly 7,000 tonnes of durable carbon removal credits to compensate for emissions generated by official government flights, marking what is believed to be the largest retirement of durable carbon removal credits by a government entity to date.

The EU is hopeful that the UN’s CORSIA offsetting scheme for airlines will look at the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism’s (PACM) direction of travel and explore potential revisions, a policy advisor to the European Commission said Friday, as aviation stakeholders await a decision on whether the bloc will expand its ETS to cover extra-European flights.

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.

Safer waste treatment - Gold Standard has opened a consultation on its Safe Sanitation Services methodology, which quantifies GHG emission reductions from safely managing sanitation waste due to the avoidance of methane from anaerobic decomposition. Stakeholder feedback is sought on how, when, and to what extent facilities may be shared between several households, and on whether and how the co-treatment of municipal solid waste should be allowed, and whether the resulting emission reductions treatment can be considered under the methodology. The submission deadline is July 12 at 18:00 CET.

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.

The UK’s first commercial direct air capture (DAC) project has launched with plans to remove up to 60,000 tonnes of CO2 per year by 2032, the project developers announced Thursday.

Singapore has signed cooperation agreements with carbon credit standards Verra and Gold Standard to expand the city-state's role in project validation and verification, according to an announcement made Friday.

A US‑based finance firm set up a carbon stream vehicle to back voluntary carbon market projects in Central Asia, targeting high‑integrity credits across land‑use and nature‑based categories.

Pedalling credits - Pakistan's Punjab province has earmarked half of the carbon credits expected from a new PKR 8.1 bln ($29 mln) electric bike-sharing scheme for the provincial horticulture agency, according to project details cited by The Nation. The initiative will deploy 50,000 e-bikes across Lahore over the next 18 months and is expected to cut CO2 emissions by around 5,000 tonnes annually. The project, financed entirely by private investment, will also generate operational revenue to be shared among government agencies. The province, Pakistan’s most populous, is also targeting the launch of a subnational ETS by mid-2027 while developing a pipeline of Article 6 and voluntary carbon market projects spanning forestry, transport, waste, energy, and clean water.

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.