Independent due diligence on jurisdictional claims will be increasingly necessary for generating buyer-facing confidence in jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD+) programmes, speakers said during an online event on Thursday.

Regulatory oversight should be viewed as an enabling condition to scale up carbon credit markets, according to new research.

A US-based developer of super pollutant credits is targeting rapid expansion into Central and South America as food supply chains increasingly shift into the region, according to its CEO.  

Carbon standard Verra has reinstated the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project after a community formally reaffirmed its participation through a process conducted in line with Kenyan law.

Getting personal - All Nippon Airways (ANA) has launched a Personal Program under its Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Flight Initiative, allowing individual travellers to contribute to SAF use when booking flights. The airline said it is the first Japanese carrier to offer such a programme to retail customers. Through an online platform, travellers can enter their flight details, view estimated CO2 emissions, and purchase SAF environmental attributes linked to their journey. Participants receive a certificate showing the estimated lifecycle emissions reductions associated with their contribution. The programme was designed by ANA and is powered by Chooose, which provides emissions calculations, SAF attribute tracking, and auditability systems. ANA said the initiative aims to broaden participation in aviation decarbonisation by giving leisure travellers a transparent way to support SAF deployment.

A small batch of an anticipated 5 million European soil carbon credits from one developer have traded at an average of just over €50 a credit.

A Dutch nature-based (NbS) project developer has completed a two-year assessment of soil carbon opportunities across Eastern Europe and launched a full feasibility study in Ukraine that could lead to carbon credit issuance before 2030, it announced Thursday.

Ukraine has adopted a two-year framework on Wednesday to test procedures for authorising, issuing, and transferring mitigation outcomes under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, alongside rules for a national carbon registry.

UK forest project – A UK-based afforestation, reforestation and restoration (ARR) project has received a BeZero Carbon ex ante rating of AApre with low execution risk, its developer announced on Thursday. The project, based in Scotland, is the first AA-level rating awarded to a UK Woodland Carbon Code scheme, according to developer Oxygen Conservation. The Invergeldie Estate Woodland Creation seeks to generate over 350,000 carbon removal credits over an 100-year commitment period, based on its native woodland work in Perthshire.

A US carbon capture and storage (CCS) startup announced on Thursday positive analysis from a large, independent engineering consultancy about the price competitiveness of its water-based technology, the founder told Carbon Pulse.

Blue carbon – A blue carbon accelerator, managed by Fair Carbon and Finance Earth, announced its first cohort on Thursday, backing two mangrove projects in West Africa. The Blue Catalyst Fund will provide early-stage finance to projects in The Gambia and Guinea, offering technical expertise to help them develop “investment-ready” blue carbon initiative, Fair Carbon said in a statement. The Gambia-based North Bank Ecosystem Restoration Trust will use the accelerator’s funding to conserve and restore 16,950 ha of mangroves while Guinea-based West Africa Blue will scale its mangrove initiative across 34,000 ha of the country’s Forecariah and Boffa prefectures. The Blue Catalyst Fund, endorsed as an Action of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, aims to support the conservation and restoration of 150,000 ha of coastal ecosystems.

The carbon industry still faces a critical financing bottleneck as traditional lenders remain sidelined by a lack of bankable offtake agreements, despite growing support for early-stage projects, a conference heard Thursday.

A Kenyan biogas project has announced it has secured formal approval from the country's government, eyeing Article 6 trade, just days after a government minister said the number of credits allowed for international sale would be limited to around 10 million until 2030.

As promises to tackle emissions in the short term butt heads with the realities of rising energy demand and pricey, early-stage carbon removal technologies, companies are increasingly looking for faster, easier wins – and driving a new market for superpollutant credits.

The UK Carbon Markets Forum (CMF) has appointed a new chair from a major global consultancy, as it seeks to accelerate the growth of global credit markets and deepen engagement across the financial sector.

Divergent rules for managing carbon reversal risks could weaken market integrity and encourage project developers to choose less demanding standards, according to a report released Thursday.

A German-headquartered foundation opened a call for proposals this week, offering a total $17 million of funding to projects focused on establishing blue carbon schemes in marine protected areas, and Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures (OECMs) across four Asian countries.

The CEO of a legacy REDD+ project in Indonesia has said overseas buyers and investors are looking for stability in the country’s carbon regulatory landscape to instil confidence that credits will resume and remain flowing.

A Qatar-based standard body said it will likely revive an independent carbon finance facility in 2026, pitching itself as the only Global South standard with a governance and digital‑heavy approach to carbon markets.

Asia-Pacific industry is beginning to explore how carbon market‑style accounting can support the emissions assurance now demanded under the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), even as regional readiness remains highly uneven.

A major certification body for jurisdictional carbon programmes issued just under 1.1 million credits to Costa Rica, a share of which are the first removals certified by the standard, it announced Wednesday.