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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.

"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”

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

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.

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.

How farmland became a pillar of South Yorkshire Pension Authority's net-zero plans.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.