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- Wed 23:55Civil suit - Louisiana landowners, including the directors of an anti-carbon capture non-profit, filed a civil suit against Gov. Jeff Landry (R) and the Department of Conservation and Energy Secretary Dustin Davidson in November, to block state officials from implementing or enforcing carbon capture laws. The non-profit Save My Louisiana represents residents and elected officials largely in five parishes, according to the Louisiana Illuminator, alleging that the state’s eminent domain laws, which would allow private property to be acquired against the landowner’s wishes, are unconstitutional. The suit, filed with the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge on Nov. 20, lists state laws on the use of eminent domain for transporting and storing CO2, with plaintiffs saying that private corporations are being granted “special privileges and immunities”. E&E News reported the legal challenge on Wednesday, noting that other state policymakers are reconsidering carbon management in Louisiana, as the issue divides the Republican party.
- Wed 23:35The voluntary carbon market risks degenerating unless certifiers sharply improve the accuracy of their project screening processes, according to a new study that warns that current market structures could result in a self-reinforcing spiral of falling credit prices, vanishing high-quality supply, and eventual collapse.
- Wed 23:18The Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with a ratings agency in a bid to improve liquidity and use of carbon credits in its carbon market.
- Wed 23:05A Minnesota-based company aiming to generate carbon removal (CDR) credits from waste biomass has closed a $6 million investment round, it announced Wednesday.
- Wed 23:02Mark your calendars - Oregon's Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) will hold a virtual listening session on Dec. 17 at 1300 PST (2100 GMT) that will inform a rulemaking process early next year for the state's Clean Fuels Program (CFP). The session will focus on the following topics for the rulemaking: a recent executive order directing DEQ to set carbon intensity targets for at least a 50% reduction by 2040; reviewing the programme’s electricity provisions in light of uncertainty created by federal policy; revising the programme's renewable electricity provisions due to evolving challenges in carbon accounting within that sector. DEQ staff will also discuss plans for next year’s rulemaking. The listening session is meant to solicit early feedback and policy ideas to support that rulemaking. Interested parties can register here.
- Wed 22:45Commons people - The OAE Field Data Commons is being developed by Carbon to Sea and Submarine Scientific to create a shared, high-quality repository for ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) field data. The online platform will centralise datasets from academic and private-sector projects, building on the OAE Data Management Protocol to standardise formats and improve accessibility. By harmonising data, the Commons aims to support cross-site comparisons, meta-analyses, and independent assessment of OAE’s effectiveness and co-benefits, helping researchers, policymakers, and collaborators make better-informed decisions. The Commons forms part of a wider set of OAE Data Management tools that also includes: the Data Management Protocol, which sets metadata and data-quality standards; a Metadata Builder to help users create compliant metadata; and a Compliance Checker to validate datasets and issue adherence badges. These tools will integrate with existing repositories and are being field-tested with research partners such as Rost Marine Research Center, the National Oceanography Centre, the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Iceland’s Marine & Freshwater Research Institute. The Data Commons pilot will use datasets contributed by Planetary Technologies, including those underpinning its Frontier offtake agreement.
- Wed 22:40Trade association builds a carbon portfolio - The environmental conservation organisation VitalEco is teaming with an Arizona trade association to launch a portfolio of carbon projects. The VitalEco Portfolio will allow the Arizona Technology Council’s 750 member companies to access a curated set of carbon removal and carbon avoidance options. The portfolio includes three categories: orphaned well plugging projects for methane emissions abatement, biochar and biogenic projects, and regenerative agriculture projects. VitalEco will also donate a portion of its proceeds from carbon credit sales back to the trade association.
- Wed 22:40Into the red - Saskatchewan is preparing to take on around $1 bln of debt in part to pay for carbon price fuel charges the province didn’t collect, according to the CBC. Of the $1 bln total, around $200 mln will account for uncollected fuel charges while the rest, $813 mln, will be used to shore up the province’s electrical utility SaskPower. Saskatchewan Rep. Aleana Young of the New Democratic Party criticised the proposal, saying it would inflate the provinces deficit to $1.4 bln if approved. A mid-year financial report projected that Saskatchewan’s deficit would grow to $427 mln after initially projecting a $12 mln surplus.
- Wed 22:37Carbon capture collab - Critical technology platform Newlab New Orleans and JERA Ventures, an arm of the Japanese power generation company JERA, have entered into a strategic partnership to commercialise next-generation point-source carbon capture technologies applied to power generation facilities. The initiative is anchored by Newlab's public–private partnership in Louisiana, and involves working with regional partners to assess existing power generation facilities that could host a demonstration-scale project, alongside a selected startup and JERA. By connecting startups to industrial environments, the collaboration is aimed at accelerating the path from validated pilot performance to commercial deployment. The partners also intend to leverage the applied learnings to scale carbon capture and power decarbonisation efforts in Louisiana and across other key global markets.
- Wed 22:33Quebec's carbon market would face prices as high as C$250-300 ($178-214) per tonne without its linkage to California, government officials said during a webinar.
- Wed 22:31Rising demand for high-integrity nature-based credits continues to support prices and increase the need for higher-quality data, with Earth observation (EO) and ground-based measurements being combined to verify carbon project outcomes, a webinar heard on Wednesday.
- Wed 22:21Forest carbon programmes are aiming to recruit small forest owners in Maine as economic pressures push many to timber their forests prematurely or sell land to developers, carbon developers said Wednesday.
- Wed 22:11Brazil’s national development bank has approved a R$300 million ($56.6 mln) investment in BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group's (BTG Pactual TIG) reforestation and restoration carbon credit strategy.
- Cemented collaboration – Cura, a Canadian climatetech company developing electrochemical systems to cut CO2 from cement production, announced on Wednesday it has signed an MoU with Acciona to validate and test its low-carbon cement technology at one of the Spanish-based global infrastructure company's flagship projects. The partnership, shared at the Spain-Canada Business Summit in Toronto, will focus on performance testing and life-cycle assessment of cement produced with Cura's process, which the company claims can reduce emissions by up to 85%. Cura said the agreement marks a shift from laboratory innovation to field-scale validation, while Acciona said the collaboration is part of its broader push to cut Scope 3 emissions and assess new technologies that can reduce embodied carbon in construction.
- Wed 21:33
AI threatens Alberta's coal cuts – Kevin O'Leary's proposed $70 bln Wonder Valley gas-fired data centre in Alberta could emit 25.7-30.5 MtCO2 annually, matching the 27 MtCO2 Alberta phased out from coal between 2005-23, the Energy Mix reported. The 7.5 GW facility would require 112-195 billion litres of water yearly, equivalent to one-third to two-thirds of household consumption in the province. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation said water permits were granted without meaningful consultation in a drought-affected region. The project remains conceptual.
- Wed 20:52
California's market makeover – The California Public Utilities Commission unanimously approved the state's first statewide Market Transformation Initiatives targeting room heat pump air conditioners and induction cooking ranges, North American Clean Energy reported. The Room Heat Pump MTI is projected to deliver $480 mln in benefits to ratepayers and will launch via RFP by early 2026. Both initiatives target 120V plug-in products compatible with standard outlets, eliminating costly panel upgrades. The combined initiatives are estimated to deliver $1 bln in total system benefits over their 20-year lifetime, focusing on disadvantaged communities.
- A California-based developer claimed on Wednesday to have made the largest delivery of enhanced rock weathering (ERW) carbon credits to date by at least sevenfold.
- Wed 20:47
Litigation's decade – Climate litigation has evolved from scattered domestic complaints into a global accountability system recognised by international courts over the past decade, according to a Climate Litigation Network report released this week. The analysis marks 10 years since the Urgenda Foundation won its landmark 2015 case forcing the Netherlands to cut emissions – the first court anywhere to order stronger government climate action. Nearly 3,000 climate cases have been filed since then, establishing legal requirements for governments and corporations to address emissions and reforming national laws. (E&E News)
- Wed 20:43
King corn's problem – The Trump administration eliminated the $3 bln Climate-Smart Commodities programme supporting conservation practices as corn and biofuel groups push Congress to expand ethanol-based jet fuel and higher-ethanol gasoline blends, Floodlight reported. Corn uses two-thirds of all US nitrogen fertiliser and is the leading driver of agricultural nitrous oxide emissions, which totaled the equivalent of 56 mln cars in 2022. Meeting federal goals for 35 bln gallons of ethanol jet fuel would require 114 mln acres of corn, 20% more than current US corn acreage, potentially worsening emissions and hunger.
- Wed 20:36
500 strong – Environmental Defense Fund staffers announced formation of a union called EDF Together on Tuesday, according to E&E News. The union has supermajority support from eligible employees and will represent nearly 500 workers at the climate advocacy group. The unionisation follows staff layoffs and budget cuts at EDF in recent years, joining a broader wave of environmental nonprofit organising including the Natural Resources Defense Council, National Audubon Society, and Greenpeace USA.
- Corporate sustainability executives on Wednesday said companies are not on track to meet their Scope 3 emissions targets, citing data limitations, supply-chain complexity, and shifting rules on the use of carbon credits as key barriers.
- Wed 20:07A carbon offset project developer and a clean fuels producer have agreed to merge into a new US-domiciled, Nasdaq-listed company that aims to scale carbon-negative sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and green methanol from a $1 billion Louisiana biomass facility.
- Wed 17:58Global fire emissions averaged 3.4 billion tonnes of CO2 annually during 2002-22, according to a new scientific database that incorporates better detection of small fires and improved fuel consumption modelling.
- Wed 17:36Only One Dyas left - Germany’s environment ministry has put forward a draft law that would ban new oil and gas extraction projects in protected areas of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, according to Tagesspiegel Background, via Clean Energy Wire. Environment minister Carsten Schneider (SPD) made the prohibition a condition for his ministry’s approval of an existing gas project located on the Dutch-German maritime border near the island of Borkum. The project, operated by Dutch company One Dyas, spans both Dutch and German waters and therefore required permitting from authorities in both countries. It was approved only after lengthy delays and legal challenges over concerns about potential harm to the Wadden Sea’s fragile ecosystem. Schneider endorsed the cross-border agreement in October, but insisted it be followed by legislation preventing any future oil and gas drilling in protected marine zones.
- Wed 17:15EU Allowance prices ended the day little changed on Wednesday as prices moved in a €1 range after weekly positioning data showed that speculative traders had amassed their largest ever net long position in European carbon, while at the same time building their biggest net short in TTF gas futures since June 2023.
- Wed 17:09Serbia's parliament approved on Wednesday legislation to introduce a national tax on greenhouse gas emissions from 2026, as the country moves to align with EU climate policy and shield exporters from costs under the bloc’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
- Wed 17:08The European Commission's planned carbon removals buyers' club, aimed at boosting demand and project deployment, could be open to international buyers too, a senior Commission official said on Wednesday.
- Wed 16:56European lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed new rules to expand CO2-monitoring requirements for heavy-industry goods entering the EU, giving the green light to detailed provisions for the accrediation of verifiers and auditors under the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
- Wed 16:28A Calgary-based cleantech company has secured C$5.1 million ($3.7 mln) in equity financing to help fund construction of a commercial demonstration plant that will convert captured CO2 and natural gas into high-performance carbon nanofibers, the firm announced Wednesday.
- Wed 16:20A carbon removal-focused registry is hoping to become one of the approved certification schemes under the EU’s Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF) scheme, an executive told Carbon Pulse in Barcelona.
- Wed 16:12The cap on non-aviation related emissions from the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme will be 8.7% lower in 2026 than in 2025, the European Commission confirmed in a report published Wednesday.
- Wed 15:23A global commodities trading firm has revealed its investment in a series of African cookstove projects amid expectations of reaping rewards for CORSIA-eligible credits that could top $40 per tonne, a conference in Barcelona heard on Wednesday.
- Wed 14:47The EU’s upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA) and European Grids Package must address persistent gaps in electrification and clean infrastructure investment in order to put heavy industry on track for 2040 climate targets, a research consortium said Wednesday.
- Wed 13:52More ratings - Emsurge Open Markets (EOM), a UK-based marketplace, has teamed up with Calyx Global to show GHG and SDG ratings directly to traders buying and selling carbon credits. As part of the partnership, Emstream broker prices for available supply, captured on EOM, will be made available to Calyx customers via rating agency's platform. The partnership will help Calyx to identify actively-traded projects to rate, allowing it to respond to the market and add to the 1,000+ GHG and 500+ SDG ratings the company has generated to date, said Donna Lee, co-founder of the rating agency, in a statement.
- Wed 13:51Indonesia covered - Space Intelligence, a UK-based forest data and analytics company, has mapped 189 mln ha of Indonesia across seven time periods between 2014 and 2025, producing land-cover datasets used by project developers and governments worldwide, it recently announced at the Global Carbon Summit Indonesia 2025, hosted by Ecobiz Asia. Murray Collins, chief executive of the company, warned that many actors still depend on legacy, slow, and uncertain analytical methods, including manual map reviews and inconsistent datasets, which create delays and heighten technical risks in project pipelines. If you cannot accurately quantify carbon potential or detect degradation, you cannot build a credible project, he told the conference, according to Ecobiz. He cited common bottlenecks: weeks-long screening processes, uncertainties in land-use change data, and difficulties in detecting subtle forest degradation that could undermine carbon credit issuance.
- Wed 13:03Europe’s domestic sustainable biomass resources appear sufficient to meet projected demand for advanced biofuel in transport for 2030 and 2050, but only if large volumes of energy crops on marginal land are mobilised, a new study has found.
- Wed 13:00A Netherlands-based environmental commodities trader has launched a digital platform to support corporate efforts to reduce Scope 2 emissions, initially through the use of renewable energy certificates, it announced Wednesday.
- Wed 12:59Latin American carbon markets are welcoming new regulatory infrastructure, concrete state-led planning, and varied methodological offerings from standards based in the region.
- Wed 12:50Africa's roadmap opposition - Tanzania reportedly urged African ministers at COP30 to oppose the call for a roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels, which ultimately was cut from the final Belem package of agreements, Climate Home News reported. As chair of the African Group of Negotiators, Tanzania's lead negotiator, Richard Muyungi, made the recommendation in a four-page presentation dated Nov. 15, midway through the summit, while also urging African countries to support the inclusion of a call for universal energy access in the text. Tanzania is home to significant gas reserves, which it is looking to auction off in an upcoming licensing round.
- Wed 12:42European natural gas prices could fall below €25/MWh next year and potentially dip under €20 if a Ukraine peace deal allows partial Russian supply to return, analysts at a US investment bank predict, while a wave of new LNG supply, growing data centre electricity use, and Germany’s coal-to-gas shift will underpin wider spark spreads and firmer EU Allowance demand.
- Wed 11:45Australia’s most prominent carbon capture and storage (CCS) project has logged its worst annual performance since operations began in 2019, according to newly released monitoring data.
- Wed 11:43Market labels that indicate eligibility for CORSIA or the Core Carbon Principles (CCP) are already driving the value of cookstove credits higher, and as the voluntary and regulated carbon markets increasingly converge, prices should only rise across the board, said analysts at an industry event in Barcelona.
- Wed 10:47Julian Popov, former environment minister of Bulgaria, has urged the European Union to tighten rules on how revenues from its Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) are spent, saying current provisions allow governments to subsidise fossil fuels.
- Wed 10:07Global nitrogen fertiliser production has increased 20% since 2009 despite scientists warning that use must decline sharply to bring pollution within planetary boundaries, a report said Wednesday.
- Wed 07:35Delivered - K Line, one of Japan’s major shipping lines, has delivered the Northern Phoenix, the third of four liquefied CO2 carriers ordered by Northern Lights, a Norwegian CCS transport and storage venture, according to a press release. Built by China’s Dalian Shipbuilding Offshore, the vessel will move captured CO2 from industrial clients outside Norway to Northern Lights’ Oygarden terminal. The LNG-fuelled ship, equipped with rotor sails and air-lubrication tech, will be managed by K Line Energy Shipping UK, the company’s London-based gas-carrier arm.
- Wed 07:24Sentiment in Japan's mandatory emissions market over the coming years will largely hinge on the details of exact market design, including the setting of the price floor and banking rules, a conference heard Wednesday.
- Wed 07:09European Union legislators struck a provisional deal early Wednesday on new rules to phase out all imports of Russian gas by Autumn 2027, a move billed as a central pillar of the bloc’s effort to end its reliance on Russian energy following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
- Wed 06:44The Australian government has announced a permanent fixed delivery exit arrangement to apply to all eligible fixed delivery carbon abatement contracts (CACs).
- Wed 06:00The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has teamed up with a project developer to target industrial decarbonisation, promoting the integration of hydrogen-based solutions into global carbon markets.
- Wed 04:07Green light – Vulcan Energy Resources has secured €2.2 bln of financing to proceed with Phase 1 of its Lionheart lithium and renewable energy project in the Upper Rhine Valley, Germany, the ASX-listed company announced on Wednesday, including €1.4 bln in strategic support from German, European, and international government-backed financial institutions. Construction is set to begin in the coming days, the company said, with this phase targeting a production capacity of 24,000 tonnes of lithium hydroxide monohydrate annually – enough for around half a million EV batteries – as well as 275 GWh per year of renewable energy and 560 GWh of heat.
- Wed 03:55A collection of governments around the Pacific are seeking input from businesses to guide their negotiations on a green economy partnership.
- Wed 03:15
Algorithm meets alfalfa – Google will provide over $2 mln to support Texas agriculture as part of its $40 bln AI data center investment through 2027, including a regenerative agriculture programme with Indigo Ag in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and an irrigation efficiency project with N-Drip in the Texas High Plains. The funding is part of Google's water security initiatives for three new data centers in Armstrong and Haskell counties. The facilities will use advanced air-cooling technology to limit water consumption to site operations only.
- Wed 03:15Steel union – ASX-listed clean hydrogen and graphite developer Hazer and South Korean steel manufacturer POSCO have extended their MoU for two more years or until formal binding agreements are executed. In a stock exchange announcement Wednesday, the Perth-based company said the extension sets out the next steps to integrate its hydrogen and low-emissions graphite tech into POSCO’s low-carbon steel process.
- A series of high-profile sovereign forest carbon project agreements covering vast swathes of land, struck between Dubai-based Blue Carbon LLC and multiple developing nation governments in 2023-24, have stalled or could now be void as the company appears to have ceased operations, according to sources and media reports.
- Wed 01:22Traders were surprised at the sudden rise in Washington Carbon Allowance (WCA) prices just days ahead of Wednesday's Q4 auction, with most market participants and analysts expecting a clear below secondary market values.
- Wed 01:03The focus of Canada's nation-building initiative is dominated by large-scale fossil fuel and critical minerals projects while over overlooking cost-effective, community-based renewables that could provide faster energy security, industry stakeholders said on Tuesday in a panel.
- Wed 00:42A Latin American commodity exchange on Monday launched a blockchain-verified marketplace for carbon, biodiversity, and other environmental credits, as part of efforts to strengthen sustainability services for the region's agricultural sector, local media reported.
- Wed 00:17Quebec's H20 premiere – Charbone Corporation completed Phase 1A equipment installation at its Sorel-Tracy, Quebec site and produced its first hydrogen molecule on schedule in late November. The modular facility is the first local clean ultra high purity hydrogen production plant in Quebec and represents a key milestone in Charbone's vision to build an integrated North American network for clean hydrogen and strategic gas production and distribution. CEO Dave B. Gagnon said the company is now entering the commercial production phase following successful testing.
- Wed 00:06Project developers signalled strong support on Tuesday for replacing traditional buffer-pool contributions with regulated insurance products under Verra’s forthcoming permanence pilot, arguing that the shift could materially strengthen project economics and improve financial viability across nature-based portfolios.
