carbon credits

Another 40,000ha of New Zealand sheep and beef farms sold for forestry – report
- Agriland
- 11 June 2025
A new report shows that sales of beef and sheep farms, particularly for carbon farming, are continuing “at an alarming rate”.
Green grabbing: Lack of land rights promotes unjust climate action
- 04 June 2025
New report points to a surge in demand for land in the Global South, where large tracts of land are suitable for carbon projects, but land tenure systems are often insecure or informal.
World Bank uses climate crisis as cover for land-grabbing, Oakland Institute says
- Mongabay
- 03 June 2025
"Whereas the Bank’s push for large-scale agribusiness is global, the African continent is its central target"
Hong Kong tycoon snares carbon project in outback WA
- AFR
- 26 May 2025
One of Hong Kong’s wealthiest tycoons, Li Ka-Shing, whose interests include energy and agricultural investments in this country, has forged into the carbon market, acquiring a vast Western Australian landholding earmarked for a ‘regenerative agriculture’ project.
Carbon Done Right looks elsewhere to expand African ARR project, after BP declines option
- QCI
- 22 May 2025
Carbon Done Right Developments has dropped a 10,000 ha project in Ghana, put a 32,000 ha project in Sierra Leone on hold and is looking for new investors to expand its 25,000 ha rewilding project in Sierra Leone, after BP Carbon Trading did not exercise an option to pre-purchase carbon credits.
New Zealand: More than 95,000 hectares of farms sold to overseas buyers for forestry conversion
- Stuff
- 16 May 2025
"These companies are in it for the short-term to make a lot of money from carbon credits then flick them before the plantations become a liability”
Microsoft to purchase 18m tons of carbon credits from Rubicon Carbon
- DCD
- 16 May 2025
The agreement, one of the largest single buyer agreements to date, will see Microsoft receive carbon credits from a pipeline of individual Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR) projects worldwide
Indigenous land disputes cloud Kenya’s carbon market ambitions
- Climate Home News
- 15 May 2025
Protest by community members opposed to a soil carbon project on Indigenous-owned grazing land prevented the signing of a 40-year lease on some 68,000 hectares of land as part of the much larger Kajiado Rangeland Carbon Project.
Brasil e China firmam acordo de cooperação sobre restauração de vegetação e sumidouros de carbono
- Notícia in Foco
- 13 May 2025
O memorando assinado às vésperas da COP30 tem o objetivo de compartilhar conhecimento, dados e tecnologias em restauração de pastagens e florestas, como metodologias de medição de sumidouros de carbono. A iniciativa integra os esforços do Brasil para cumprir as NDCs até 2030 com a restauração de 12 milhões de ha.
In brief: A pension’s journey from farmland to natural capital
- New Private Markets
- 07 May 2025
How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.
Biomas launches first large-scale reforestation project in Brazil’s Atlantic Rainforest
- One Stop ESG
- 29 April 2025
Biomas, a Brazilian reforestation company backed by Vale, Marfrig, Suzano, Santander Brasil, Itaú, and Rabobank, has launched its first major project: planting over 2 million trees across 1,200 hectares of Atlantic rainforest in Bahia state.
Brazil's government aims to raise $2 billion in financing with new Eco Invest auction
- Reuters
- 29 April 2025
The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva expects to raise $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.