Guyana has secured the issuance of more than 9 million jurisdictional REDD+ (J-REDD) carbon credits under the ART TREES certification programme, with the vintage 2023 units eligible for use under UN aviation offsetting scheme CORSIA.

The US Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced proposed regulations for domestic clean fuel production, determining 45Z credit eligibility under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA).

A Calgary-based low-carbon cement developer is shaking up its executive branch with a new CEO and president as it looks to expand across North America and Europe.

An industrial facility in Quebec covered under province's California-linked ETS has suspended planned investments in emissions reductions totalling C$300 million ($220 mln), citing insufficient regulatory certainty and company concerns around the ability to continue operations in the future.

A group of 114 civil society organisations published an open letter Tuesday to the COP30 Presidency, calling for the planned roadmap to transition away from fossil fuels to be science-led and equity-based to ensure it does not become "another document that gathers dust". 

Proposals to impose new federal fees on electric vehicles (EVs) could significantly reduce uptake in the US and increase transportation sector emissions over the coming decades, according to a recent analysis.

Representatives from the EU and Britain will meet for another round of talks on linking their Emissions Trading Schemes (ETS) on Wednesday, but sources have said there are significant areas of disagreement, notably around the UK's willingness to align its regulation with that of the bloc.

The head of the European Commission's carbon markets unit confirmed on Tuesday that Brussels will extend the trajectory of the EU's Emissions Trading System, and that including international carbon credits in the climate policy framework will give industry more time to decarbonise.

Parties in a US consumer-led class action lawsuit are probing whether companies making carbon-neutral claims can rely on third-party offset certification or whether additional substantiation of emissions reductions is required, ahead of a hearing on a motion to dismiss on Tuesday.

EU carbon allowances gave the lie to a small daily decline by sinking €2 in the final hour on news headlines, ending the day some €1.50 below the official settlement price after what traders described as a session of technically-driven trading.

EITE request deadline - Washington's Department of Ecology (ECY) has issued a notice informing owners or operators of energy-intensive, trade-exposed (EITE) facilities that they have until Mar. 31 to request upward adjustments to their allocation reduction schedule, and changes to allocation baseline, for the 2027-30 compliance period under the state's cap-and-invest programme. The ECY has published a guidance document to show the kind of information required for requests. The agency's request are part of ongoing efforts to update EITE provisions under the programme.

A global agtech software company plans to burst into the afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation (ARR) market, expecting to initiate 10 voluntary carbon projects this year after switching away from a REDD+ avoided deforestation approach, the founder and chief executive told Carbon Pulse this week.

Lack of available storage and penalty risk for failing to deliver by 2030 are the main obstacles to Denmark's €4-billion carbon capture and storage (CCS) subsidy scheme, stakeholders told Carbon Pulse.

Q4 electricity sector emissions regulated under Massachusetts’ Global Warming Solutions Act (GWSA) increased more than 6% year-on-year (YoY), programme data showed.

A France-headquartered carbon crediting standard has received conditional endorsement from the International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA).

New buyers guide - South Pole, the Swiss-based carbon developer and financier, is launching the 2026 Carbon Market Buyer’s Guide to help investors navigate the voluntary sector. The guide reveals insights and the trends in the marketplace, including the shift from volume buying to integrity, Article 6, CORSIA, and the emergence of digitalisation. This is the second edition of the guide.

Digital removals - Cula, a digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (dMRV) platform for the carbon removals sector of the voluntary carbon market, has linked up with removals registry Puro.earth through its new dMRV Connect API. Puro built and launched this API as part of its roadmap toward investment-grade carbon removal infrastructure. Cula is the first dMRV system to integrate and use it in production.

Not-so-wintery Olympics - The Italian Milan-Cortina alpine region, where the Winter Olympics begin next week, is already seeing higher than average temperatures and below-average snow – in a trend that could lead to a 9% decline in snow production, and 9.5% fall in snow cover days, by 2050, under a medium scenario for emissions, according to the Italian research centre Fondazione CMCC. This could result in over €9 mln in lost revenue for ski lift operators in the region by 2065.

The European Parliament will aim to agree by the end of April on a position concerning reforms to the supply-balancing mechanism in the EU’s Emissions Trading System for heating and transport (ETS2), while EU member states are eyeing a mid-February joint stance.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has urged EU leaders to further delay the start of the bloc's new emissions trading system for heating and road transport fuels (ETS2) until 2030 and to introduce a price cap in the current EU ETS, warning that high carbon costs risk undermining the bloc’s economy and social stability.

BP is under pressure from investors to defend its oil and gas investment strategy amid claims it has a poor recent track record in generating returns from fossil exploration.

The UK government has released new modelling showing that the price of carbon permits is expected to rise sharply over the next 25 years, breaching £100 per tonne in the 2030s assuming a net zero trajectory, and rising to nearly £300 by mid-century in the most bullish scenario.

The government of Spain has launched an EU-backed project seeking to restore more than 26,000 hectares of wetlands over the next decade, with an initial budget of €160.5 million.

After a first draft was submitted to public consultation last year, the European Commission on Tuesday published its final proposal to certify activities that permanently remove CO2 from the atmosphere, allowing first projects to be certified “in the coming months”.

Stepping forward - The Article 6.4 Methodological Expert Panel, at its eleventh meeting, which took place last week, advanced new tools to assess lock-in and reversal risks, refined guidance on electricity emissions and equipment lifetimes, and explored stronger buffer pool arrangements for carbon removals. Progress was also made on clean cooking crediting. A new analytical tool was released for public consultation to prevent approval of activities that could entrench high-emission technologies. On fNRB work, a proposed methodological tool was drafted. After reviewing existing methods, data and assumptions, the MEP concluded that the best available values are the nationally derived default fNRB values developed under CDM exercises between 2003 and 2024 and incorporated in an approved CDM tool. As well, options to improve buffer pool resilience were explored, including monetary reserves and governance enhancements.

EU probes Chinese wind turbine maker – The European Commission announced on Tuesday the opening of an in-depth investigation into Chinese turbine maker Goldwind under the EU’s Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR). The probe, initially launched in Apr. 2024, will scrutinise grants, preferential tax measures and loans that may have strengthened Goldwind’s market position and distorted competition for wind turbines in the EU internal market. The Commission stressed that opening the in-depth investigation does not prejudge its outcome.

Asian-Swedish hydrogen – Catator, a Swedish developer of catalytic technology for hydrogen production, has made important progress in establishing itself in Japan and South Korea helped by the Swedish Energy Agency’s Global Innovation Accelerator (GIA) programme. The GIA offers a structured routes into these markets where electrofuels play a key role in the energy transition. Catator CEO Tarras Delin said the GIA gave it the structure, contacts, and business opportunities that otherwise would have been tricky to achieve. The Swedish company has secured two important orders in Japan with the help of GIA, and in Korea, has identified a large number of prospects. It sees good potential in building sales in both regions going forward supported by the GIA.

Automotive feedback - The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has opened a second public consultation on a new framework for automakers and auto parts manufacturers seeking to set science-based targets aligned with reaching net zero by 2050. Stakeholders are asked to respond to the updated draft of its Automotive Sector Net-Zero Standard. Key updates include staying aligned with the developing Corporate Net-Zero Standard V2 and redefining low-emission vehicles as zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). The consultation is open from Tuesday until Mar. 22, 2026 and once finalised, shall replace parts of the SBTi’s existing Land Transport Guidance relating to the auto sector.

Nature-based carbon projects often struggle to prove that they deliver real and measurable emissions reductions, according to recently published research that highlighted fundamental limits to causal attribution in complex social-ecological systems.

Indonesia is aiming to complete the launch of its national carbon market by late June, with large transactions expected to begin the following month, local media reported Tuesday.

A London-based carbon credit standard has introduced a pre-approval pathway for pyrolysers to streamline the validation of biochar projects and accelerate credit issuance, it announced Tuesday.

A UK Parliament committee, set up to scrutinise government policy decisions, said it was generally supportive of including domestic maritime in the country's Emissions Trading System (ETS), during a debate held Tuesday, though heard strong opposition from lawmakers representing Northern Ireland and the Isle of Wight.

A UK-based conservation firm is raising capital to more than double its REDD+ project portfolio in Tanzania by 2035 and has launched a global learning platform focused on social impact in nature-based solutions (NbS), it announced last week.

Energy partners - Germany and Saudi Arabia's governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to increase cooperation in energy. The deal builds on a 2021 declaration of intent to partner closely on hydrogen and was signed by German Economy Minister Katherina Reiche during a trip to Saudi Arabia. The partnership intends to focus on carbon management technologies, energy efficiency, digitalisation in energy, cyber security and AI, and development of secure supply chains. Also during the govt visit, German energy companies EnBW and VNG signed a MoU with Saudi Arabia’s Acwa to establish “a reliable green ammonia export corridor” between the two countries. The fuel would be produced in Saudi Arabia relatively cheaply, and then shipped to Germany for use in industry as a fuel or for electricity generation. The German govt has said most of the hydrogen it consumes would be imported, mostly from southern Europe. (Reccessary)    

A government body in Sweden is preparing to launch a SEK 300 million (€28 mln) funding call in March aimed at supporting bio-based carbon capture and storage (bio-CCS), it announced last week. 

While the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is expected to have only a marginal effect on inflation, the European Central Bank (ECB) warns the levy will impose much heavier costs on sectors like iron and steel, or cement in some EU member states, while impacting selected industries in neighbouring countries more heavily.

A British carbon removals company is preparing to announce a series of new projects to supply its new storage site in Denmark, where it was forced to expand because it isn't eligible for storage capacity at home – at least for now. 

Do some study first - The Beijing Green Exchange, which hosts China's domestic voluntary CCER market, plans to continue promoting research on the cross-border carbon trading systems, it said in a recent statement. It also seeks to participate in the development of relevant regulations in China, in order to expand the international influence of the CCER market. The exchange last week organised a seminar on the topic, with the participation of around 30 experts across sectors.

The Global Carbon Council (GCC) and Malaysia Forest Fund (MFF) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation on carbon markets and scale nature-based solutions across Malaysia, the organisations announced Tuesday.

Robust interest - Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry told Carbon Pulse it received 52 submissions at the pre-qualification stage of its second request for proposals to procure Article 6-compliant carbon credits for use towards its 2030 climate target. The list includes major commodity and energy traders such as Shell, Trafigura, Vitol, Mercuria, and agribusiness groups Olam and Louis Dreyfus Company. MTI said the pre-qualification phase is expected to conclude around May of this year, when the second stage of the tender will begin. Further details on evaluation criteria will be released with the second-stage tender documents, it added. The tender, for both nature and tech-based carbon credits, is restricted to countries that have signed bilateral Implementation Agreements with the city-state.

The upcoming legislated review of the Safeguard Mechanism will not be used to massively overhaul or dump the scheme entirely, rather, it will be more of a recalibration of current settings, a consultancy argued this week.

SAF potential - ASEAN economies could produce up to 8.5 mln bpd of SAF by 2050, far exceeding projected regional demand, according to an outlook by Melbourne-based consultancy GHD. The outlook found countries including Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand have abundant agricultural and forestry waste feedstocks, positioning them as potential net SAF exporters to markets such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea. Regional SAF demand is also seen to rise from about 15,000 bpd in 2030 to more than 700,000 bpd by 2050, driven by rapid aviation growth in Southeast Asia.

Exclusions - The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has narrowed the eligibility of low-carbon liquid fuels (LCLF) under its Future Made in Australia innovation fund, Argus reported. The A$250 mln ($175 mln) LCLF fund will only support projects producing sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, and methanol, saying these have the highest innovation potential and strongest market demand from sectors including aviation, long-haul freight, mining and maritime. Projects developing or using biodiesel, biomethane, hydrogen, and/or ammonia, as the end product are not under consideration according to the agency. The LCLF innovation around is separate from the A$1.1 bln the government committed to developing the LCLF sector.

Green iron - UK-based Binding Solutions said in a press release it had signed an agreement with a unit of Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co to produce lower-carbon iron ore pellets from material in Western Australia’s Pilbara region. The privately held company said it had signed a MoU with Mitsui Iron Ore Development to apply its "cold agglomerated pellet technology", which uses less energy and emits less CO2. Under the deal, Binding Solutions aims to convert lower-grade iron ore into pellets, which typically attract a price premium. Mitsui has investments in Pilbara iron ore operations alongside major producers including BHP Group and Rio Tinto.

Apply now - Indonesia has opened applications for its first Climate Finance Accelerator cycle in 2026, looking for climate-aligned and revenue-generating businesses raising at least $3 mln. Funded by the UK Government, the programme aims to help mobilise private capital for climate finance. Priority sectors include energy, waste, agriculture, transport, industrial processes, and forestry and land use. Applications close on Marc. 9, 2026, with selected participants receiving investor-focused coaching and networking.

Government support - The South Korean government plans to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) pursuing commercialisation of climate technologies, Yonhap reported. Those holding carbon neutrality-related patents or who have been recognised as successful in national research and development (R&D) projects within the past three years will be considered eligible for applications. The government will select around 10 SMEs and provide up to KRW 200 mln ($137,649 ) per company for consulting, product improvement, and domestic and international verification and certification.    

A change in Chair - The Colombian Association of Carbon Market Actors (Asocarbono) announced last Friday through an statement the departure of its executive director, Francisco Ocampo, ending a seven-year tenure that began with the organisation’s founding in 2018. Its board said it is developing a transition strategy focused on renewed leadership to address current and future challenges in Colombia’s carbon market, with further updates to be communicated in due course.

JNR rating - The jurisdictional REDD+ (JNR) programme of Argentina’s Misiones province has received an A-AA rating from carbon ratings agency Sylvera, its developer Coralia Environmental announced Monday via LinkedIn. The assessment makes Misiones the first REDD+ project in Argentina to reach an A rating, only the second carbon project nationwide to do so, and the first with potential to attain AA status. Sylvera flagged only moderate risk levels across leakage, anthropogenic risk, and systems and safeguards categories, marking a step closer to the commercialisation of the world's first credits under Verra's JNR 2a scenario methodology.

Costa Rica became the latest Latin American country to elect a right-leaning president over the weekend, reinforcing a regional political shift that has left carbon pricing instruments suspended less by ideology than by questions of institutional capacity and revenue generation.

Rate reduction - Australia's Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has committed A$60 mln ($41.8 mln) to reduce the upfront cost of EV ownership, teaming up with Hyundai Motor Group's finance arm, Hyundai Capital Australia, to cut vehicle interest rates, it announced. Eligible customers under the programme could save between 0.5-1% on their finance rate across Hyundai and Kia fully-electric EVs, according to a statement. The investment also supports the future integration of EVs into the electricity grid, it added. Around half of all light vehicles sold between now and 2035 will need to be electric to reach Australia's 62-70% emissions reduction target, according to the Climate Change Authority.

Rocky Mountain inventory - The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment released an executive summary, overview, and dataset for its 2025 greenhouse gas inventory, following a report to the state legislature published in December 2025. The inventory, produced by the department's Air Pollution Control Division, covers emissions across energy, industrial processes, agriculture, land use, and waste sectors from 2005 through 2023, with projections out to 2050. The division is required to update the inventory at least every two years under Senate Bill 19-096. A full report and updated GHG inventory explorer are expected in early 2026, with public meetings on inventory methodologies scheduled for spring 2026.

The Netherlands is set to recommit to EU climate and energy policy leadership, and issue nitrogen plans that could help rein in agricultural GHG emissions.

The Australian Carbon Credit Unit (ACCU) price slipped Monday after edging up to a 2026 year-to-date (YtD) peak, as a relatively high volume of Safeguard Mechanism Credits (SMCs) came on to the secondary market.

China, while seeing clean energy put its CO2 emissions into reverse for the first time last year, is finding itself embroiled in years of coal expansion beyond power demand growth and climate requirements, according to a report published Tuesday.

RGGI Allowance (RGA) futures prices fell to their lowest level since October despite publication of programme data Monday that showed a year-on-year (YoY) rise in Q4 emissions.