carbon credits

Tanzania: Carbon projects undermine Maasai land rights
- MISA
- 11 Mar 2025
Study finds that two large-scale carbon projects on the grazing lands of the Maasai in Tanzania have committed serious abuses and make traditional grazing practices impossible.
Microsoft signs 30-year carbon removal afforestation deal in India
- ESG Today
- 06 Mar 2025
The project, spanning 20,000 hectares in Madhya Pradesh State, will see up to 11.6 million mixed native trees planted across farmer and community land.
Private entities to gain access to state-owned degraded forests for afforestation
- Down to Earth
- 04 Mar 2025
Private entities may soon be granted access to 60-year concessions of up to 10,000 ha of degraded forests in Madhya Pradesh for carbon credit tree planting projects
Museveni meets EcoNetix delegation to explore Uganda’s carbon market potential
- Ugdiplomat
- 11 February 2025
Talks with a delegation led by Austria's former Minister of Agriculture Elisabeth Köstinger focused on leveraging Uganda’s vast natural resources to generate carbon credits.
Private firms may help revive MP’s degraded forests
- Hindustan Times
- 03 February 2025
The Madhya Pradesh government plans to hand over between 10 and 1,000 hectares of forest land to private agencies for 60 years in which time they can plant species of their choice, trade in forest produce, and rate the forest for carbon sequestration to earn carbon credits.
Microsoft signs massive carbon credit deal with reforestation startup Chestnut Carbon
- TechCrunch
- 31 January 2025
The 25-year deal would enable Chestnut Carbon to plant trees on 60,000 acres of land across Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas
Central Vietnam province, Italy’s ENI to collaborate in carbon credit generation
- The Investor
- 30 January 2025
In April 2024, ENI said to Quang Tri authorities that it sought suitable areas in the province to plant trees, in order to generate feedstock for its bio refinery factory in Italy.
Microsoft and re.green sign a second deal on Amazon and Atlantic forests restoration
- Carbon Herald
- 27 January 2025
Through its two carbon credit agreements with Microsoft, the company will work on restoring a total of 33,000 hectares of land in parts of the Amazon and Atlantic forests.
UK: The billionaires and aristocrats cashing in on tree-planting schemes
- The i Paper
- 19 January 2025
As millions in public money flows towards the planting of trees, some are also raising concerns about the environmental credentials of many schemes.
Brazil startup partners with agro firm to reforest degraded Amazon land
- Reuters
- 13 January 2025
Private equity-backed reforestation startup re.green has signed a partnership with Agro Penido to restore 600 hectares of land owned by the Brazilian agribusiness firm with native species from the Amazon rainforest
Idemitsu to begin trial of non-edible oilseed crop for aviation fuel
- Reuters
- 10 January 2025
Japan's No.2 crude oil refiner, Idemitsu Kosan, will begin a trial plantation of the non-edible oilseed tree crop Pongamia in Australia to assess its potential as a feedstock for aviation fuel, in cooperation with the US company Terviva.
Carbon-capture promises require an unrealistic land grab
- Bloomberg
- 16 December 2024
Net-zero pledges from 140 countries would require turning territory the size of the US into a giant greenhouse-gas sponge and generate a massive land grab that will go on for decades.