A R$250-million ($48.7 mln) nature finance vehicle has completed its investment period after fully deploying capital across its portfolio of 11 nature-based solutions (NbS) in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a report published this week.

Cash for deserts - Saudi Arabian startup Terraxy, a soil improvement and carbon capture company in desert environments, has secured $3 mln in second round funding, led by Wa’ed Ventures, the venture capital arm of oil company Saudi Aramco. The funding will support Terraxy’s transition from pilot-scale production to industrial production and deployment across Saudi Arabia, including the establishment of a 30,000-sqm commercial facility in Al Zulf. Carbosoil, Terraxy’s proprietary soil enhancer, can deliver up to 70% improvement in plant growth and yield with the same water and nutrient inputs, improving resource-use efficiency in sandy soils, the company claimed.

Costa Rica will soon receive funds from the LEAF Coalition public-private buyers’ club, becoming the first country in the world to receive results-based forest carbon finance through this programme.

First of a kind - Estonian-based forestry carbon developer Ecobase has announced that its European Improved Forest Management (IFM) project has been registered by Verra as Project 5315. Spanning Sweden, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia across around 570,000 ha of forest, the project focuses on increasing the carbon stored in existing forests through improved forest management, largely by extending forest rotation ages. It is the first European project to apply Verra's VM0003 methodology, which allows landowners to boost long-term carbon storage while continuing to manage forests as productive assets. The first credit issuance is expected by year end, with initial expected issuance of around 900,000 verified carbon units (VCUs), said the press release Friday.

Peru’s Ministry of Environment (MINAM) has accredited two new standards and added 17 new methodologies to the national carbon registry RENAMI, as per a resolution issued Thursday.

Importers face steep challenges to take advantage of proposed EU rules allowing the application of carbon credits against Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) fees, due to the “onerous” conditions imposed by Brussels on their use, experts told Carbon Pulse.

An ocean carbon removal startup that has yet to reveal its pioneering technology has struck a partnership with a state-backed Saudi development company to further bolster the country’s carbon credit exchange.

Chemical weathering triggered by permafrost thaw could offset a substantial share of CO2 emissions from rivers draining frozen landscapes, and in some regions may eventually outweigh them altogether, according to new research.

The EU should tailor its Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation (CRCF) methodology for improved forest management (IFM) to regional climate risks and forest conditions, while tightening baseline rules to reduce over-crediting risks, a policy brief published Thursday said.

A new agricultural technology company has been launched in the US through the combination of two existing digital agriculture businesses, with ambitions to build a neutral data and verification platform linking farm-level activities to sustainability, compliance, and carbon market outcomes.

Malaysia is seeking to upgrade its national forest carbon registry to meet standards set by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market and the aviation sector's Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation.

Rainforest Foundation UK (RFUK) has unveiled a new strategic vision through 2033 centred on expanding Indigenous and community control over tropical forests, arguing that rights-based conservation and local stewardship offer the most effective response to accelerating deforestation and biodiversity loss.

The EU should resist calls to weaken aviation climate policies in response to the recent kerosene price shock and instead extend its ETS to cover all flights departing the bloc from 2027, according to a policy paper published this week.

Firsts - Carbon removal registry Isometric has issued the first enhanced rock weathering certificates to India-focused developer Mati Carbon, covering 492.4 tonnes of CO2 removed from its project in the state of Chhattisgarh, it announced. Mati applies crushed basalt from the Deccan Traps, one of the largest volcanic features on Earth, to rice paddies, where natural weathering processes lock away carbon in ocean-bound bicarbonate ions. The issuance marks the first credits generated under Isometric's Enhanced Weathering in Agriculture Protocol v1.2. The developer Mati won a $50 mln XPRIZE Carbon Removal grand prize in 2025.

The European Union risks repeating the mistakes of the Kyoto Protocol as it moves to reintegrate international carbon credits into its climate policy, a Brussels-based think tank has warned, amid growing calls to include next-generation credits in the EU carbon market.

Companies are "excited about finally having clarity" on using market instruments to show progress towards their climate targets under the newly released Science Based Targets initiative's (SBTi) Corporate Net-Zero Standard, say consultancies referring to the standard's "incredible ripple effect".