LATAM Roundup: Governments shape forest carbon credit flows across markets
Over the past week, developments across Latin America showed forest-based carbon supply being channelled into different market pathways, with countries diverging on whether credits are exported, retained for domestic compliance, or supplied to voluntary markets.
Read MoreWashington state forest offset overhaul risks failing permanence test, researchers warn
Carbon market researchers have raised concerns that proposed revisions to Washington state’s forestry offset protocol risk failing to ensure the environmental integrity of credits issued under the scheme.
Read MoreFEATURE: Colombian ETS a cautionary tale for Latin America
Colombia’s Emissions Trading System (Spanish: PNCTE) is one of the oldest planned cap-and-trade initiatives in Latin America – but it should serve as a warning rather than a model for others, due to weak policy foundations, scarce data, and poor stakeholder coordination, experts told Carbon Pulse.
Read MoreTribe formally pulls California-registered forest carbon offset project destroyed by wildfire
A US-based forest carbon project, registered under California’s cap-and-trade scheme, has been officially ended by tribal leaders after it was ravaged by wildfire several years ago.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Canada oil and gas, electricity caution federal government on benchmark overhaul
Canadian oil and electricity advocates are asking the federal government to tread carefully as it looks to update its industrial carbon pricing benchmark – or scrap its proposal altogether.
Read MoreProposed Washington state forestry changes could cut present offset value by over one-third
Washington’s Department of Ecology (ECY) has proposed sweeping changes to its forestry offset protocol that could reduce the present value of credits issued by a combined 36% over 25 years, according to a rulemaking document published on Tuesday.
Read MoreMexico’s Queretaro updates offsetting rules for taxed carbon emissions beginning 2025
The Mexican state of Queretaro, one of the first in the country to operationalise a carbon tax, recently published the official guidelines for its Low Carbon Seal and Emissions Offsetting System linked to 2025 contributions onward, allowing selected companies to offset up to 50% of their taxed emissions through a hierarchical supply of carbon credits.
Read MoreAlberta updates biomass waste combustion offset protocol
Alberta has opened its biomass waste combustion for energy generation protocol for public comment, according to a draft published Thursday.
Read MoreLATAM Roundup: 2026 starts with carbon regulation pushes, eyes on US-Venezuela issue
The new year began by providing a glance at what might be expected in Latin America in 2026: the advancement of carbon regulations in the region amid the backdrop of political tensions.
Read MoreBRIEFING: Colombia unveils 2026 legal calendar to introduce, change four carbon pricing instruments, regulate Article 6
The Colombian government expects to publish a series of long-anticipated regulations ahead of the mid-year presidential elections that will affect the country’s compliance and voluntary carbon markets, its long-awaited emissions trading system (ETS), and international carbon credit transfers under Article 6.
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