More than half of the world's largest companies now have net zero targets and nearly half plan to use carbon credits as part of their climate strategies, according to a report released Tuesday, highlighting the continued mainstreaming of voluntary carbon markets among major corporates.

A mangrove restoration project in western Senegal has been registered under Verra's Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate, Community, and Biodiversity (CCB) standards, becoming the second globally under the body's flagship VM0033 blue carbon methodology, its developer announced this week.

A Rio de Janeiro-headquartered mining company has mapped nearly $2.5 billion in estimated decarbonisation-related spending and warned that carbon pricing mechanisms could cost the company up to $4 bln from 2030 onwards, according to an annual report.

Verra has put a large Zambian REDD+ project on hold, six years after project registration, according to the standard body's registry.

KAI PACT - Indonesia’s state railway operator, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI), has launched a decarbonisation roadmap aimed at achieving net zero emissions by 2060, with support from the UK government through the UK PACT programme. The plan targets a 25.8% emissions reduction by 2030 from a baseline of nearly 648,000 tonnes of CO2e, rising to 35.6% by 2035 and 78.2% by 2050 before reaching net zero in 2060. A key component is the electrification of around 1,039 km of rail infrastructure, including commuter rail services, the Jabodebek LRT and the Whoosh high-speed rail line. The roadmap also includes energy-efficiency measures, green building certification for stations and depots, expanded solar power deployment, and a shift from diesel fuel towards higher biodiesel blends, in line with Indonesia’s planned move from B40 to B50 biodiesel. KAI has already installed more than 3.4 MW of solar capacity across 66 sites and planted over 107,000 trees since 2021. Consultants involved in the project highlighted rail’s relatively small contribution to Indonesia’s transport emissions - around 1%, compared with roughly 89% from road transport - arguing that expanding and electrifying rail services could play a significant role in reducing overall transport-sector emissions by encouraging a shift away from private vehicles. The UK-backed initiative also includes studies on B50 biodiesel adoption, diesel-to-electric rail conversion, signalling upgrades, and financing mechanisms designed to help KAI access international climate finance, including sustainability bonds and other green investment instruments. (ecobiz.asia)

A UN-backed restoration finance facility has partnered with a Peru-focused nature-based solutions developer to help advance a pipeline of community-led forest restoration and conservation projects targeting carbon, biodiversity, and sustainable land-use outcomes across Latin America.

The UK government should incorporate project-level ratings assessments when they integrate domestic carbon removals into their Emissions Trading System (ETS), a ratings agency said Tuesday.

A group of companies including Danone, Nestle, and Unilever, shared a set of recommendations on Tuesday which it says could accelerate a European agricultural transition under the bloc’s Carbon Removal Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation.

A Helsinki-based carbon removal (CDR) registry has surpassed one million retired carbon credits, after retirements more than doubled in 2025, the company announced on Tuesday.

Verra published its first framework to quantify emissions reductions in marine transport Tuesday in an effort to support alternative low-carbon fuels in shipping.

Kenya's recent announcement that it will limit Article 6 transfers to 10 million Internationally Transferred Mitigation Outcomes (ITMOs) between 2026 and 2030 surprised many market participants, particularly given the scale of the country's existing carbon project pipeline, and may signal a fundamental shift for project developers relying on voluntary prices currently languishing in single-digit figures.

A voluntary carbon standard, a research non-profit, and an emirate in the UAE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster carbon market engagement, including on the Paris Agreement’s Article 6, among other sustainable development objectives.

A carbon project developer has pitched contracted durability mechanisms as a way to manage reversal risk, suggesting these buffer pool alternatives could equalise nature- and tech-based removal credits under the newly-introduced requirements of the Science-based Targets initiative’s (SBTi) latest Corporate Net-Zero Standard.

A project developer lobby group has thrown its weight behind a new stakeholder initiative that aims to boost the number of credits available for CORSIA to around 250 million by the spring of 2027.

A Swedish bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project developer has signed long-term agreements to supply permanent carbon removal (CDR) to two real estate companies, it announced Tuesday.

A coalition of agricultural, climate, and carbon market organisations has called on the European Commission to take urgent action to ensure demand for carbon farming credits, warning that the success of the EU's Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) regulation depends on creating a viable market for farmers.