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.

On 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.

The European Commission's proposed reforms to the EU's Emissions Trading System (ETS), which include provisions linked to the procurement of up to 260 million international credits, should mean the total demand for Article 6 units from the bloc reaches as high as 650 mln, experts have noted.

The 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.

Marine 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.

Gender-responsive – The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has partnered with UK-based consultancy Social Development Direct (SDDirect) to promote gender-responsive approaches in high-integrity carbon markets, the Council said on Monday. The agreement covers joint knowledge-sharing and communications activities, including a gender-focused blog series, webinars and in‑person events. ICVCM said the collaboration supports its Core Carbon Principles agenda and aims to strengthen trust, transparency and equity across the voluntary carbon market.

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.

SBTi appointments – The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has named a new cohort to its independent Technical Council, the organisation announced on Tuesday. The new council will begin work in July 2026, providing oversight of SBTi standards, methods and guidance as the organisation implements its Technical Work Plan and refined standards architecture. Former vice chair Laura Draucker has been appointed chair, with Piers Forster as vice chair, heading a 16-strong body combining reappointed and newly selected members under a staggered renewal model approved in Dec. 2025. The council’s expertise will be critical as SBTi rolls out its updated corporate net-zero standard, the organisation said.

Ethiopia 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.

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.

A 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.

Singapore’s draft Digital Infrastructure Bill, currently under public consultation, would allow regulators to penalise data centre operators that fail to meet environmental sustainability requirements, including by requiring them to surrender carbon credits to compensate for any resulting increase in emissions.

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. 

A senior executive in charge of international projects has left an Asia Pacific carbon developer, as the company said it intends to "sharpen" its overseas strategy.

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.