The ICAO has deemed carbon credits under ACR's jurisdictional power sector programme as eligible under UN aviation offsetting scheme CORSIA, the registry announced on Tuesday.

High-integrity stamped credits now cover at least 13% of the new issued volume, the chief executive of the Integrity Council of the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) said on Tuesday.

New recommendations on how EU governments can implement the bloc's Methane Regulation should clear the way for oil and gas producers to comply with incoming reporting rules, even though the industry would still prefer to see them written in law, according to experts. 

BC's first battery storage facility - BC Hydro, British Columbia's primary electricity distributor, announced on Monday that it is launching a procurement process for the province's first battery storage project, to be located on Vancouver Island on land owned by the distributor. The facility will deliver "at least" 100 MW of battery storage capacity, with distribution fluctuating according to demand. The procurement process will begin on July 30, after which the provincial distributor will invite a selected pool of companies to participate in a request for proposals. BC Hydro is targeting a 2030 service date for the facility. As part of its Powering Growth Plan released in June 2026, BC Hydro has identified 500 MW of potential battery storage projects that could be launched across the province.

Trading and open interest has continued to pick up in CORSIA futures after the European Commission proposed a compromise to extend the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) to some international flights.

From California to Hawaii and back again: The birth, rise, and survival strategy of an mCDR startup. In the first of a three-part series on marine carbon removal, supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center, Carbon Pulse editor Allison Gacad investigates Captura's efforts to turn direct ocean carbon capture into a viable business.

A draft reversal-risk tool under Paris Article 6.4 is cementing permanence requirements to clean cooking credits for the first time. But before debating the numbers, the market should ask whether this category belongs in a permanence framework at all.

A carbon ratings agency is funding an initiative to analyse the causes and impacts of extreme wildfires, which represent a growing risk for nature-based projects, it announced on Tuesday.

This year’s COP31 climate summit in Turkiye is not expected to produce any “big-ticket” negotiated outcomes, with the UN process instead shifting its focus towards implementing existing commitments and examining reforms to strengthen the three decade old system, UN climate chief Simon Stiell said.

Carbon credit pricing is significantly influenced by who the buyer is more than what the credit actually does for the climate, a recent study has argued. 

California's climate piggy bank – California's cap-and-invest programme has funded $15.5 bln in climate projects since 2014, according to the state's California Climate Investments 2026 annual report. The figure follows the passage of Assembly Bill 1207 (AB 1207), which extended the market mechanism through 2045. Cumulative lifetime GHG reductions from implemented projects reached 130.5 MtCO2 equivalent, the report estimated. It also attributed $44.4 bln in estimated travel and energy cost savings and more than 143,000 supported direct, indirect, and induced jobs to the expenditures. Disadvantaged and low-income communities received $11.4 bln, or 76%, of implemented funds. Continuous and budget-enacted appropriations from auction proceeds for fiscal year 2025-26 total more than $2 bln.

Brazil registered 12.7 million hectares burned in 2025, a 58% decrease from the previous year when the country experienced an extreme surge in fires, while the area burned in the Amazon hit a multi-decade low, a Tuesday report showed.

The first Verra-approved jurisdictional and nested REDD+ (JNR) programme, located in northern Argentina, is aiming to incorporate a batch of privately owned native forests in the coming months after the launch of a capacity-building programme, according to local media.

Low-carbon energy and CDR technologies perceived as more natural were judged as safer, more beneficial, and evoked less negative emotion among US study participants, according to a preprint published Monday.