Verra has approved the first carbon credits generated under its methodology for reducing food loss and waste, opening a new pathway for food rescue projects to access carbon market finance. The credits come from the Brightly – Reducing Food Loss and Waste project in the United States. The project generated 721,649 Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) […]
Europe’s soil carbon market has reached a new milestone. The European Soil Revitalization Programme, covering farms in France and Belgium, has issued the first carbon credits worldwide under the Gold Standard Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Framework Methodology. South Pole, agricultural technology company Gaïago, and Gold Standard announced the first issuance on October 6, 2026. The […]
The U.S. Department of War is putting new money behind a technology that could change how solar power reaches the ground: beaming electricity from space. Virginia-based startup Overview Energy received a contract through the Department of War’s Operational Energy Capability Improvement Fund (OECIF). The company will design, build, and test a ground-based homing beacon for […]
Amazon is expanding its renewable energy footprint in the UK as demand for low-carbon electricity grows across the economy. The company has now signed a new Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Statkraft for the 36-megawatt (MW) Mossy Hill wind farm near Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands. The project is expected to become operational in November […]
Rio Tinto and Chinese steelmaker Shougang Group have commissioned an industrial-scale carbon capture trial facility designed to capture carbon dioxide directly from blast furnace gas at Shougang’s Jingtang steelmaking base in China. The facility can process up to 3,000 cubic metres of blast furnace gas per hour and is designed to capture as much as […]
Silver’s supply outlook is changing quickly. After a physical shortage and a dramatic price rally in 2026, the silver market could enter surplus as early as 2027, Deutsche Bank says. Rising inventories, weaker industrial consumption and falling silver use in solar manufacturing are reducing pressure on the market. The bank’s outlook, reported by Mining.com, points […]
Xpansiv has gained a significant investment from Verdane, a European firm. This funding will help the environmental markets infrastructure company expand by making acquisitions, developing new products, and growing internationally. The companies announced the strategic partnership on September 22, 2026. They did not disclose the size of the capital raise. Xpansiv plans to use the […]
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) continued to move away from a volume-driven model in the third quarter of 2026, with carbon credit retirements falling even as buyers spent more on the credits they purchased. Carbon credit retirements reached 30.6 million in Q3 2026, down 9% from 33.7 million a year earlier, according to carbon market […]
The European Union set the Q3 2026 price for Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) certificates at €82.32 per tonne of CO₂. This provides importers with a new benchmark for the carbon cost of emissions-heavy goods entering the bloc. The European Commission published the price on October 5, after calculating it from EU Emissions Trading System […]