LONDON — The global effort to put a price on maritime emissions has run aground once again. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) voted to delay by one year a decision on a carbon pricing mechanism for shipping, following sustained pressure from the United States and Saudi Arabia and support from
Washington – The American Forest Foundation (AFF) confirmed a 15-year agreement with Netflix to purchase verified carbon credits from Fields & Forests (F&F), an afforestation and reforestation effort built for family landowners who have been largely excluded from carbon markets. The commitment will help catalyze the first 6,000 acres and
Key Impact Points: Landmark Bank–State Partnership in Forest Carbon Markets Standard Chartered has signed a five-year agreement with the Government of Acre, Brazil, to bring high-integrity jurisdictional forest carbon credits to market, potentially releasing 5 million credits in 2026. Located in the Amazon rainforest, Acre will use the programme to
New Platform for Smarter Carbon Credit Decisions Carbon Compared has launched a free, interactive carbon credit comparison tool designed to help companies identify and purchase high-integrity offsets with confidence. The platform aggregates verified credits from leading providers, enabling side-by-side comparisons by project type, location, price per tonne, co-benefits, and independent
Key Impact Points: Landmark Financing Ushers in Scalable Nature-Based Carbon Projects Chestnut Carbon has announced the closing of a groundbreaking $210 million non-recourse credit facility—the first bank financing of its kind for a U.S. afforestation project in the voluntary carbon market. The transaction, led by J.P. Morgan with syndicate partners
Key Impact Points: UN’s Gold Standard Publishes Engineered Carbon Removal Guidelines to Accelerate High-Integrity Projects Gold Standard has released its Engineered Removals Activity Requirements, a comprehensive framework to guide high-integrity engineered carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects toward certification. The publication marks a major expansion of the NGO’s efforts to bring
Key Impact Points: Frontier Backs Early Carbon Removal Innovators Frontier has announced $1.75 million in prepurchase agreements to advance three early-stage carbon removal companies: Karbonetiq (U.S.), Limenet (Italy), and pHathom (Canada). The deals were made on behalf of Stripe, Shopify, and Google. The funding targets two high-potential, underdeveloped pathways: ocean
Key Impact Points: Frontier Backs Arbor’s $41M CDR-Energy Deal California-based startup Arbor has landed a $41 million carbon removal offtake agreement from Frontier, one of the coalition’s biggest such deals to date. The funding will support Arbor’s first commercial-scale facility in Louisiana, expected to launch in 2028 and remove 116,000
Key Impact Points: Microsoft Backs Norway’s First Waste-to-Energy CCS Project Hafslund Celsio has signed a landmark agreement to sell 1.1 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals to Microsoft over a 10-year period. The deal is a major boost for the company’s carbon capture and storage (CCS) initiative, part of Norway’s
Key Impact Points: Landmark Coalition to Scale Voluntary Carbon Markets The Governments of Kenya, Singapore, and the United Kingdom have launched the Coalition to Grow Carbon Markets—the first government-led initiative aimed at restoring and scaling private sector demand for high-integrity carbon credits. Announced during London Climate Action Week, the coalition
