A carbon ratings agency has acquired an AI-powered sustainability workflow software platform and hired its founding team, as it seeks to expand its analytical and due diligence capabilities amid growing demand for data-driven risk assessment tools in carbon markets.

Brazil restoration project – Brazilian forest project developer re.green and pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk announced an alliance to establish a 500-ha restoration project in the Amazon, according to a Tuesday social media post. The project aims to generate 100,000 carbon removal credits aligned with the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) over 20 years of implementation. Activities include natural regeneration, planting of native species, and timber management in the Paragominas forest located in the northern Brazilian state of Para.

An American improved grazing project developer announced its second independent verification in June, furthering the success of this first-of-its-kind project in the US.

A coalition of academic institutions, non-profits, and private businesses has rebranded itself and launched a new fellowship programme to help scale high-integrity carbon markets, the group announced Tuesday. 

Few markets have faced as severe a reputational battering as the REDD+ avoided deforestation sector in the last couple of years, but new standard body Equitable Earth (EE) plans to restore faith in saving tropical forestry with a fresh approach that is already set to protect an area the size of Portugal, the chief executive told Carbon Pulse this week.

Verra has signed a multi-year partnership worth more than $1 mln with two software firms to deploy AI-enabled customer service and contract workflow tools across its systems, it announced Tuesday.

Super pollutant fund needed - The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has called for a dedicated fund to scale the Climate and Clean Air Coalition’s (CCAC) Super Pollutant Country Action Accelerator, launched at COP30 last November with $25 mln to support seven countries. The programme should reach 30 countries by 2030 and should not rely on carbon or methane credits, the EIA said.

Indonesia is set to launch its carbon credit registry in two weeks, as part of the country's push to drive finance towards the protection of its vast forests, the country's forestry minister confirmed during London Climate Action Week on Wednesday.

Orsted has cut its scope 1 and 2 emissions intensity by more than 98% since 2006, but value chain emissions linked to steel, maritime fuels, and copper now represent the main carbon challenge for its offshore wind business, the Danish offshore wind major said Tuesday in a report launched during London Climate Action Week (LCAW).

A subsidiary of a major steelmaking group in South Korea is leveraging its recent acquisition of an Indonesian palm oil business to explore the carbon sequestration potential of biochar.

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has launched the first of a series of modules to help organisations navigate high-integrity carbon markets. 

CRCF Buyers’ Club website launched – The European Commission has launched an official website for its EU CRCF Buyers’ Club, detailing how buyers and suppliers of certified carbon removals and carbon farming units can join the new voluntary market platform launched by the European Union. The Club, announced under the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, is designed to aggregate demand for units certified under the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Regulation and to mobilise public and private capital for permanent removals and carbon farming. Initial purchases of permanent carbon removals are planned by Dec. 2026, with eligibility focused on DACCS, BioCCS and biochar projects. Potential buyers are invited to register interest via a dedicated EU Survey.

Demand for both removals and reduction credits from companies taking part in a corporate target setting scheme could top 1 billion in 2035, according to forecasts based on a recent update to the programme's rules.

Mitigating reversal risk in carbon markets beyond the standard project life horizon will be possible with a new market-wide 'Permanence Trust' mechanism to be piloted later this year, said experts at London Climate Action Week.

Bangladesh has announced an ambitious goal to generate almost $1 billion through the sale of new carbon credits.