Brazil regulates payments for ecosystem services

Published 21:43 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 21:54 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean), Nature & Biodiversity (Markets, Policy), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry)

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Brazil has issued long-awaited regulations governing the country’s national policy on payments for ecosystem services (PES), establishing rules for both public and private initiatives.

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Allowances on offer hold steady for Q3 WCI auction

Published 20:21 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 20:21 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (Compliance Markets & Taxes, US & Canada)

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The Q3 California-Quebec joint WCI auction will offer just 1% fewer allowances than the previous quarter, according to a Friday notice. 

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Anticipation litigation: Climate lawsuits seen to increasingly rely on consensus rather than causation

Published 19:53 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 19:53 on June 19, 2026 / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Net Zero Transition (Litigation)

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A growing body of climate litigation targeting major emitters may increasingly rely on broad scientific and political consensus rather than direct attribution of climate damages, according to a new academic study that identifies an emerging category of “anticipatory climate litigation”.

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V25 credits settle below $10 in first round of 2026 auction for Colorado manufacturing GHG trading programme

Published 18:39 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 18:39 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (Compliance Markets & Taxes, US & Canada), Net Zero Transition (Industrial Decarbonisation)

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V25 credits settled at below $10 in the first round of the 2026 auction under Colorado’s carbon trading programme for manufacturing facilities, less than half of the previous year’s initial result, according to a state notice.

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Amazon NbS fund concludes deployment of R$250 mln into carbon pipeline

Published 18:19 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 18:19 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean), Nature & Biodiversity (Corporate), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Voluntary (VCM Developments)

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A R$250-million ($48.7 mln) nature finance vehicle has completed its investment period after fully deploying capital across its portfolio of 11 nature-based solutions (NbS) in the Brazilian Amazon, according to a report published this week.

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Trump administration reaches deal to redirect $765 mln from offshore wind leases to gas, geothermal

Published 17:33 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 17:33 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (US & Canada), Net Zero Transition (Litigation, Power/Electrification)

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Four federal offshore wind leases would be voluntarily terminated and $765 million redirected towards gas-fired power plants and geothermal generation under a settlement announced recently by the US Department of the Interior (DOI).

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BRIEFING: AI data centres’ gas rush tests whether power demand can become flexible

Published 16:49 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 16:49 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (US & Canada), Insights (Briefings), Net Zero Transition (Power/Electrification)

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US grid regulators and a federal court are being pulled into a fight over how AI data centres power their operations, as reliability demands push developers toward private gas-fired generation and raise questions over whether some workloads can be shifted before emissions are locked in.

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Costa Rica to receive LEAF Coalition’s first-ever funding disbursement

Published 14:54 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 14:54 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), EMEA (Europe), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Voluntary (VCM Developments)

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Costa Rica will soon receive funds from the LEAF Coalition public-private buyers’ club, becoming the first country in the world to receive results-based forest carbon finance through this programme.

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Peru’s national carbon registry adds two new standards

Published 14:18 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 14:18 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean), CO2 Management (Engineered Removals), International (Paris Article 6/PACM), Nature-based Carbon (Forestry), Net Zero Transition (Industrial Decarbonisation, Power/Electrification, Transport & Heating Fuels), Voluntary (VCM Governance)

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Peru’s Ministry of Environment (MINAM) has accredited two new standards and added 17 new methodologies to the national carbon registry RENAMI, as per a resolution issued Thursday.

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BRIEFING: Draft EU CBAM rules “onerous” in practice for foreign carbon credits, experts say

Published 11:57 on June 19, 2026 / Last updated at 11:57 on June 19, 2026 / / Americas (LATAM & Caribbean, US & Canada), Asia Pacific (Asia, Pacific), EMEA (Africa, Europe, Middle East), Insights (Briefings), International (CBAM & Tariffs, Paris Article 6/PACM, UN Climate Talks), Voluntary (VCM Governance)

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Importers face steep challenges to take advantage of proposed EU rules allowing the application of carbon credits against Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) fees, due to the “onerous” conditions imposed by Brussels on their use, experts told Carbon Pulse.

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