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Nepal received a $9.4 million results-based payment from the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility for cutting nearly 1.88 million tons of CO2 emissions in the Terai Arc Landscape, the first…
21 Nov 2025
Gold Standard labelled over 1.5 million Verified Emission Reductions from a Malawi clean cooking programme as CORSIA-eligible, the first such project in Africa. The milestone demonstrates how host-cou…
14 Nov 2025
An Amundi report found blended finance uses public funds to leverage private capital for sustainable development in high-risk emerging markets, but the market remains small and needs standardisation. …
7 Nov 2025
A RepRisk 2025 report found biodiversity-related greenwashing more than tripled over the past year, with banking and financial services seeing a 19% jump in flagged organisations. The findings signal …
7 Nov 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is positioning high-integrity carbon credits as a critical mechanism for closing the climate finance gap ahead of COP30 in Belém. Latin America re…
6 Nov 2025
The International Capital Market Association has published new guidelines introducing Climate Transition Bonds as a new category of labelled debt instruments, joining Green, Social, Sustainability and…
6 Nov 2025
Climate Policy Initiative has created the Climate Finance Reform Compass, a tracking tool covering nine thematic areas of financial sector reform needed to scale global climate finance. A Brazil-speci…
5 Nov 2025
Spanish energy company Iberdrola has completed the world's first hybrid green bond issued under the European Green Bond standard, raising €1 billion with a coupon of 3.75%—the lowest for any hybrid bo…
31 Oct 2025
The Reserve Bank of India released draft directions requiring commercial banks to assess climate risks, govern green deposits, and conduct annual third-party verification and impact assessments. The f…
30 Oct 2025
The UK enacted legislation placing ESG ratings providers under statutory regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority, applying to firms producing ratings for UK investors. The move sets an internati…
30 Oct 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approved two sustainable agriculture methodologies — CAR's US Soil Enrichment Protocol v1.1 and Verra's VM0042 Improved Agricultural Land Manageme…
30 Oct 2025
A new report from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market's Continuous Improvement Work Program calls for strengthened social and environmental protections in carbon-crediting projects, …
29 Oct 2025
Three US federal banking agencies rescinded the interagency principles for climate-related financial risk management at institutions over $100 billion in assets, dated September 25, 2025. The reversal…
20 Oct 2025
Brazil's Ministry of Finance presented the Open Coalition for Carbon Market Integration at COP30 to harmonise standards and link diverse carbon trading systems. The voluntary initiative could shape in…
20 Oct 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market launched its first overseas office, an Asia Pacific hub in Singapore, in partnership with the Singapore Economic Development Board and the Nationa…
15 Oct 2025
On October 8, 2025, the MoEFCC notified the Greenhouse Gas Emission Intensity Targets Rules, 2025, setting mandatory targets for aluminium, cement, Chlor-Alkali and paper sectors under the Carbon Cred…
13 Oct 2025
On October 1, 2025, the ICVCM approved six engineered carbon dioxide removal methodologies and two forestry methodologies to issue Core Carbon Principles-labelled credits. The expanded high-integrity …
5 Oct 2025
The Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative released a white paper projecting the carbon economy could grow from $1.4 billion in 2024 to $250 billion by 2050, urging financial institutions to ta…
5 Oct 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approved six engineered carbon dioxide removal methodologies, enabling CCP-labelled credits from technologies including direct air capture, bio-oi…
1 Oct 2025
Apple announced an investment in the sustainable management and restoration of the Gualala River Forest, a coastal redwood forest in Mendocino County, California, through a partnership with The Conser…
29 Sept 2025
Climate fintech firm Connect Earth announced the acquisition of European ESG reporting platform Datia, marking a step toward building what it describes as a Sustainable Finance Operating System for fi…
23 Sept 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market reported that 48 million credits are now approved to use the CCP label, equivalent to the annual emissions of Sweden, with nearly 40% of buyers ac…
17 Sept 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market outlined how its Core Carbon Principles framework helps African project developers attract finance and deliver measurable benefits for communities…
10 Sept 2025
Africa stands to unlock up to $6 billion a year in carbon market revenues by 2030 and support as many as 30 million jobs if countries align with high-integrity standards, according to analysis highlig…
9 Sept 2025
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