BRIEFING: New UN 1.5C initiative raises old fault lines over finance vs emission cuts
Countries are widely divided around traditional fault lines in talks on what a new UN initiative to strengthen climate efforts should look like, with developing countries prioritising finance, wealthier nations encouraging greater policy action, and business groups advocating wider deployment of climate technologies.
Read MoreSingapore to advance into second phase of state‑run Article 6 procurement
Singapore plans to issue a call for project proposals for Article 6 compliant credits in the coming weeks, as the first stage of supplier pre-qualification under its second major request for proposals (RFP) wrapped up earlier this month.
Read MoreJapanese power company invests A$25 mln in ACCU fund
One of Japan’s largest power generators has invested A$25 million ($17.5 mln) in a nature-based carbon fund in Australia.
Read MoreEthiopia issues first credits under World Bank jurisdictional forest programme
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.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Should cookstoves meet permanence requirements? The question Article 6.4 has yet to ask
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.
Read MoreCarbon ratings agency backs scientific study of global wildfire risks
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.
Read MoreArea affected by fire in Brazil fell 58% in 2025, with Amazon registering the smallest burned area in 41 years -report
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.
Read MoreArgentine provincial J-REDD+ seeks new private native forest land as programme expands -media
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.
Read MoreMore public support for more “natural” CDR, early study results find
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.
Read MoreSouth Carolina conservation non-profit to support landowner, cooperative participation in VCM
The South Carolina chapter of the National Audubon Society will launch a programme aimed at enabling family landowners to generate revenue from the voluntary carbon market (VCM), the conservation charity announced Monday.
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