Symbiosis's 40 Mt of offtakes carry minimum-delivery and delivery-risk terms; Mombak's Fund II adds a BNDES credit line under private equity; the UK put £400M into the Tropical Forest Forever Facility; Brazil re-tendered an Amazon restoration concession after zero bids; Verra's VCS v5 is now CCP-eligible with ARR, IFM and REDD+ methodologies approved; and a Colombian investigation put consent documentation at the centre of REDD+ value. Nine forest projects changed status on the registries this week.
By registry: Verra 1,204 · Gold Standard 169 · Isometric 7
Wovoka launches Ghost Dance, a field verification app that pays communities per geotagged photo
Satellites see a fraction of Mindanao on any given day. Ghost Dance turns the people who live on the land into the ground-truth layer: a geotagged photo inside a project boundary, reviewed by a manager, paid the same week. First deployment with FEMMATRICS in Bukidnon in October.
Read the story →6 stories that change the picture for Forests: ARR, REDD+, IFM.
Symbiosis members now hold 40 Mt of nature-based removal offtakes
Google, Microsoft, Meta, McKinsey, Salesforce, REI and Bain; Mombak, Living Carbon and Thryve.earth named as developers that passed diligence.
Why it matters. The contract bar for an ARR or mangrove offtake is now public: minimum-delivery thresholds and delivery-risk analysis.
Mombak's $150M Fund II, a BNDES credit line, and Salesforce as offtaker
Fund I restored fifteen farms; about 80,000 tonnes of removal credits expected by year end.
Why it matters. The first sign a national development bank will lend against reforestation credit cashflows.
Verra VCS v5 recognised as CCP-eligible; 13 methodologies plus JNR approved
ARR, IFM, REDD+, biochar, improved rice and cookstoves on the approved list.
Why it matters. A VCS v5 forest project on an approved methodology is label-eligible by design. Symbiosis and VCMI buyers require it.
TFFF: the UK commits £400M; the fund is still $2.7bn short
Sponsor capital about $7.3bn against a $10bn target.
Why it matters. TFFF pays per hectare of standing forest. If it capitalises, it becomes the floor jurisdictional REDD+ is priced against.
Colombia's carbon-tax offsets under investigative scrutiny
The Pirá Paraná case and projects lacking consent documentation.
Why it matters. Consent documentation is the asset under a REDD+ credit, not the tonnes.
Lomphat Wildlife Sanctuary REDD+ registers with Cambodia's Ministry of Environment as proponent
690,039 t/yr; a government-proponent REDD+ at scale.
Why it matters. A template for jurisdictional-style deals in the Mekong.
1 new listings, 9 status changes, 1 newly registered or certified.
The late list, the pipeline mix, and who is originating.
Most active proponents in the pipeline
- Core CarbonX Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (PP) 8 projects in pipeline or validation
- Infosys 7 projects in pipeline or validation
- Global Evergreening Alliance 6 projects in pipeline or validation
- Arbonics OU (PP) 6 projects in pipeline or validation
- Mangrove Foundation of India (PP) 5 projects in pipeline or validation
- Leone Alato S.p.A. 5 projects in pipeline or validation
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