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- Tue 16:23On the mark - Agreena's soil carbon programme (VCS4022) has received a 'BBB' ex-post BeZero Carbon rating following the issuance of credits in Sep. 2025 under Verra's standard. The ex-post rating is unchanged from the project's 'BBB' ex-ante rating assigned in Feb. 2025, indicating that the project's performance has been broadly consistent with earlier expectations, the developer said.
- Tue 15:01The EU should allow biochar carbon removal (BCR) into the EU ETS alongside other EU-certified permanent carbon removal pathways, an industry association has said, warning that a CCS-only approach would undermine competition and raise costs.
- Tue 14:50Marine carbon removal (mCDR) will struggle to reach commercial scale without stronger government action to create reliable long-term demand beyond voluntary carbon markets, researchers argue.
- Tue 13:20Ethiopia has become the first country to issue carbon credits under a World Bank-managed programme supporting jurisdictional forest activities, with 12.4 million units available for carbon market transactions.
- 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.
- Tue 11:41A 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.
- Tue 09:51A Norwegian bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) project has become the world’s first to generate verified carbon removal credits from biogas production, the certifier, Finnish registry Puro.earth, announced Tuesday.
- Tue 04:45NZ carbon and nature consult – The New Zealand government has opened a consultation on the criteria for an endorsement process for domestic nature and carbon markets, following its May announcement of an assurance framework to scale these markets. As well as the endorsement criteria, the government is looking for feedback on the integrity principles and suitability of the criteria for assessment of the schemes and as well as for project validation and verification providers. Submissions close on Aug. 7.
- Tue 04:00Brazil 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.
- Tue 01:21The 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.
- Tue 01:12Low-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.
