carbon credits

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.
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 $2 billion in financing through a new auction as part of the Eco Invest Brazil program, focusing on initiatives to recover 1 million hectares of degraded pastures.
Governo Federal anuncia o 2º Leilão Eco Invest, voltado à recuperação de terras degradadas
- Secom
- 28 April 2025
Com objetivo de atrair capital privado para financiar a recuperação de 1 milhão de hectares de terras degradadas, o Programa brasileiro pretende levantar R$ 10 bilhões, inclusie por meio dos novos Fundos para o agronegócio (FIAGROS). Combinando recursos públicos e do BID como catalizador, espera-se destravar os investimentos internacionais no agronegócio e em terras.
Área na APA Triunfo do Xingu é leiloada para recuperação florestal
- Para Terra Boa
- 28 April 2025
A empresa Systemica, quem tem o BGT Pactual como sócio, venceu o primeiro leilão no Brasil para reflorestar 30 mil ha de terras públicas da APA Triunfo do Xingu, com direito de explorar comercialmente os serviços ambientais e gerar créditos de carbono por 40 anos.
Sierra Leone: Maconteh communities protest over unpaid land leases by agroforestry firm
- Care Times
- 25 April 2025
Six communities in Maconteh Chiefdom, Port Loko District, including Rogbessh, Faidugu, Rokama, Robat, and Kirima have staged a peaceful protest against agroforestry company Rewinding BKM for failing to pay 2024 land lease fees.
Inside the controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
- MIT
- 25 April 2025
The tech behemoth is betting that planting millions of eucalyptus trees in Brazil will be the path to a greener future. Some ecologists and local residents are far less sure.
Kyrgyzstan to plant 10 million trees in Issyk-Kul via carbon credit initiative
- Times of Central Asia
- 09 April 2025
The joint initiative with UK-based Valor Carbon aims to plant over 10 million trees across 25,000 hectares in the Issyk-Kul region, with the potential to attract up to $180 million in climate financing.
‘Carbon grabs’ are the new ‘land grabs’ in Africa, says Bank chief
- Heritage Times
- 06 April 2025
The head of the African Development Bank says big foreign companies are not paying Africa fairly for its role in fighting climate change. He calls this unfair practice “carbon grabs.”
Land grab: Tozzi Green’s carbon plantations in Madagascar
- REDD Monitor
- 26 Mar 2025
Dama Jean Dare Ratolonjanahary, community activist and co-founder of the Comite de Defense des Terres, told New Lines that, “Carbon credits are an excuse to continue destroying nature in exchange for money”.
The case against a carbon credit farm in Madagascar
- New Lines Magazine
- 24 Mar 2025
The Italian multinational Tozzi Green has begun planting trees on land that local residents claim was stolen from them
A USD$25 billion public-private Ghana climate futures and socio-economic initiative is agreed
- CarbonPura
- 24 Mar 2025
The Ghana Green Guard USD$25 billion climate futures initiative is a public-private collaborative partnership that will generate over 305 million carbon credits across 12 million hectares with projects based on reforestation, regenerative agriculture and other activities.
Riopaila Castilla incursiona en el mercado de bonos de carbono
- Estamos en linea
- 20 Mar 2025
El grupo agroindustrial, ya acusado de acaparamiento de tierras baldías, ha logrado certificar más de 11 mil créditos de carbono en hectáreas dedicadas a la conservación de la biodiversidad en el Vichada, Colombia