Microsoft's greenhouse gas output rose 25% in fiscal year 2025 as the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure drove higher emissions across its value chain, but the technology giant reiterated its commitment to become carbon negative by 2030 through a combination of operational decarbonisation and one of the world's largest CO2 removal (CDR) procurement programmes.

Mining goals - A former chief economist at mining giant BHP has called for governments to adopt stronger climate policies, including a robust carbon price, arguing that voluntary corporate commitments are insufficient to drive deep industrial decarbonisation. Huw McKay, now a visiting fellow at the Australian National University, told the Guardian newspaper that an effective carbon price would encourage mining companies to invest more quickly in cutting emissions from hard-to-abate operations. His comments follow leaked internal BHP documents revealing the company delayed or cancelled several decarbonisation initiatives, including major renewable energy projects in the Pilbara, fleet electrification plans, and a low-emissions ironmaking project.

Voluntary carbon certification body Gold Standard has published two new methodologies on Thursday as it continues to align its crediting programme with the principles of the Paris Agreement.

Evidence library - Isometric has launched a new feature that consolidates all project evidence into a centralised view within its platform, aiming to simplify carbon project verification and improve transparency, it said Thursday. The interface brings together documents, sensor data, calculations, images, and other supporting evidence in one place, allowing suppliers, auditors, and reviewers to quickly trace how certification decisions are made. The registry's new Evidence Library is organised by project requirements and linked directly to specific claims, reducing time spent searching across multiple files and improving consistency during validation. The update is designed to streamline project reviews, strengthen auditability and support faster, more reliable certification of carbon projects

Nordic Quality - Nefco, the Nordic Green Bank, is seeking feedback on how to develop a framework, called Nordic Quality, for companies and investors to engage in international carbon markets under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. Nordic Quality aims to provide a shared Nordic reference point by translating values such as transparency, trust and sustainable development into practical principles for high-integrity carbon market cooperation.

Green lawyers - UK law firm Shoosmiths has signed a five-year pre purchase forward offtake agreement for carbon removal credits provided through the firm Carbonaires. The credits are sourced from HUSK, a women-led biochar producer operating in Cambodia and Vietnam. After reducing its operational footprint by over 70% across Scope 1 and market-based Scope 2 emissions, Shoosmiths net operational emissions are zero after this deal. But the law firm does not yet claim to be net zero because it has not yet reached the 90% reduction threshold. Every credit is monitored through Carbonaires’ digital-twin, real-time tracking, and retired with full end-to-end traceability via Carbonaires’ integration with Carbonplace, from issuance through to retirement, the company said.

A new digital carbon registry has launched, aiming to bring building decarbonisation projects into carbon markets.

EU's CRCF made easy –  CRCFProjects.com has partnered with SyndicatedCarbon to make the EU Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF) easier to follow for market participants, the founders announced on social media. The independent platform offers live updates on the EU CRCF, through the day and a searchable directory of CRCF projects, by method, country, developer and status. Founder Maximilian Venhofen said the EU CRCF is hard to keep up with, and described CRCFProjects as “an independent, plain language way to see what's real, what's coming, and what it means”.

A substantial volume of Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCUs) were retired in June, according to data released by the Clean Energy Regulator, doubling the amount of credits retired in the first half of 2026, year-on-year.

An Indian carbon project developer is deploying bioacoustic monitoring across its agroforestry projects, betting that hard data on biodiversity can convince cautious corporate buyers to enter the voluntary carbon market.

Adding "co-benefit premiums" to carbon markets to reward nature-based climate projects that deliver measurable adaptation, biodiversity, and social benefits alongside carbon sequestration, could redirect investment towards higher-impact projects that are currently overlooked.

Tokens - Thai conglomerate CP Group has partnered with the Mae Fah Luang Foundation to tokenise forest carbon credits, with the pilot project expected to generate around 10,000 credits, the Bangkok Post reported. CP has committed THB 30 mln ($930,000) to purchase the tokens, which will initially be available through the TrueMoney app for consumers to offset emissions from travel and daily consumption. The pilot covers forest across Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and Tak provinces, with plans to expand the model and develop a fully tokenised system, subject to regulatory approval, the report said.

A group of German researchers has proposed a new framework for classifying carbon offset projects based on the underlying mechanisms by which they reduce or remove greenhouse gases, arguing that existing taxonomies obscure important differences in project quality and accounting approaches while lumping together fundamentally different activities.

Colombia’s incoming environment minister has pledged to revive the country’s carbon market by reversing key policies introduced under the outgoing administration, including a cap on the use of carbon credits to offset the national carbon tax and controversial draft regulations governing carbon projects.

Singapore sovereign investor Temasek recorded 7% year-on-year growth in its sustainability portfolio value to S$49 billion ($37.8 bln) and opted to maintain its focus on enabling carbon market solutions as a pillar of its net zero goal, according to financial year-end figures published on Wednesday.