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- Thu 00:30The number of participants and holdings in Washington's cap-and-invest programme increased in Q2, according to a report published Wednesday.
- Wed 22:43A Canadian venture capital company has launched a new C$100 million ($71 mln) fellowship programme to fund early-stage climate technology projects.
- Wed 22:28Nodal Exchange posted the first trade in California Carbon Offsets 8 (CCO-8) with direct environmental benefits (DEBs) to the state on Tuesday, after launching the futures contract the previous day.
- Wed 22:27The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a federal court to intervene in and dismiss a Clean Air Act (CAA) citizen suit against xAI, arguing that the case threatens AI, energy, and national security interests and that federal enforcers can block private actions they choose not to pursue.
- Wed 22:26Emissions linked to privately owned assets are highly concentrated among the world's wealthiest individuals, found an analysis published this week, highlighting what researchers described as a blind spot in climate policy.
- Wed 22:11Farm-to-flight – Circularity Fuels said this week it has completed the world’s first end-to-end conversion of raw agricultural biogas into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The California-based company said its six-month pilot produced ASTM-compliant SAF from raw biogas containing around 35% CO2 drawn directly from a dairy manure digester. Circularity estimated commercial-scale facilities could be built for less than $100,000 per barrel-per-day of capacity – around one-fifth the capital cost of SAF plants currently planned in Europe.
- Wed 21:03The first meeting of a new Brazil-spearheaded “floating” forum on climate-related trade issues saw surprisingly positive engagement amid the backdrop of wider tensions around unilateral trade measures, a diplomat from the country told Carbon Pulse on the sidelines of annual mid-year UN climate talks.
- Wed 18:59The Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism (PACM), a UN-regulated carbon market grounded in Article 6.4 rules, is guiding national frameworks, voluntary market (VCM) standards, and even other UN schemes, experts and country delegates said on the sidelines of climate talks in Bonn.
- Wed 18:20A major international financial markets lobby group has urged the European Commission to ensure that carbon prices paid in third countries under the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) encompass all recognised compliance instruments, including domestic and international credits, warning that proposed restrictions could undermine the bloc's objective of preventing double carbon pricing.
- Wed 18:19Retirements across the voluntary carbon market (VCM) were strong across the first five months of 2026 with volumes no longer concentrated at lower price points, according to new analysis, but removals purchases were down by 50% over the same period with questions over whether recent demand boosts will be enough to keep developers heads above water.
- Wed 17:33Nearly 60% of top financial institutions still lack any meaningful policy to combat deforestation, which could have consequences for the world's efforts to meet global biodiversity targets, according to a new report.
- Carbon removal (CDR) buyers club Frontier launched more than $900 million in a new advance market commitment (AMC) while onboarding two major AI and technology buyers.
- Wed 17:17An ocean carbon removal research initiative on Wednesday unveiled plans to launch a $5 million funding round aimed at expanding a global research network for ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE), as interest grows in marine CDR technologies but questions remain over their scalability, environmental impacts, and monitoring requirements.
- Wed 17:11Supply and demand hangs in the air for Phase 1 Corsia with the unknown of credit quantity rubbing against regulatory uncertainty, a webinar heard Wednesday.
- Wed 16:46Proposed US carbon border mechanisms for aluminium expose a trade-off between rapid protection from high-carbon imports and a slower, more stable route to industrial decarbonisation, according to a new analysis.
- Wed 16:30A project developer operating in Brazil hopes that a new rating will help its Amazon project set a benchmark to restore the credibility of REDD+, a representative told Carbon Pulse.
- Wed 15:43Verra and S&P Global Energy have announced that their "next-generation" environmental registry platform will officially go live on July 27, which they say marks a major upgrade for global carbon market infrastructure.
- Wed 14:16Every dollar that a company invests in emissions reduction generates an average of $2.40 in return, and in some cases up to $7 over its lifetime, according to the latest report by an environmental disclosure non-profit.
- Wed 13:48An environmental commodities broker and an energy trader have launched a second carbon auction, offering 100,000 Article 6- and CORSIA-labelled credits.
- Wed 13:44Several countries sent reduced delegations to the SB64 UN climate talks in Bonn due to the effects of US- and Israel-led war in the Middle East, or were completely absent, according to parties and observers.
- Wed 13:02The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) opened a public consultation on Wednesday on a draft international standard for net zero transition planning.
- Wed 11:45INTERVIEW: The hard part of biochar isn’t making it, but building the market, says climate tech firmAfter more than a decade teaching smallholder farmers how to turn crop waste into biochar, the leaders of a climate tech firm said that beyond making the biochar itself, the real complexity lies in building the relationships and infrastructure needed to sell high‑durability carbon removal credits.
- Increasing research and development, building out infrastructure, creating durable markets, and strengthening standards and measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification could help tech-based carbon removals to scale in the US, according to a report from an NGO.
- Wed 05:00Project-based carbon credit markets are moving towards a more regulated, state-led model as voluntary standards remain unable to address weak oversight, fragmented rules, and uncertainty around credit use, a report published Wednesday said.
- Wed 04:42A California-headquartered carbon credit investment and project management firm has opened a regional office in Singapore amid its Asian expansion efforts.
- Oil and gas companies have spent over $273 million to bolster carbon credit use in California’s emissions trading scheme, as well as shape early governance of climate-related market risks at a US financial regulator, a report found.
- Wed 01:07A majority of nature-based solutions (NbS) projects implemented in Canada over the past 15 years have focused narrowly on biodiversity conservation despite possessing significant untapped potential to simultaneously address climate change, water security, and other societal challenges, according to new research.
