Climate Week's compliance turn matters most where supply is deepest. China's ETS now covers 8.3 Gt but its offset scheme stays domestic; Australia is legislating a method kill-switch; and the compliance-markets coalition chaired by Brazil added six members. India, the largest single country in this set until now, has its own edition from this issue.
5 stories that change the picture for Rest of world.
China's ETS now covers 3,680 emitters and 8.3 Gt; CCER stands at 41 projects
Record 2025 volume of 235 Mt; the relaunched CCER has traded 21.7 Mt at about RMB 84 a tonne.
Why it matters. Chinese compliance demand does not reach foreign projects yet. The CCER is domestic and small next to the ETS.
Open Coalition on Compliance Carbon Markets adds six members and a 2026–27 work plan
Canada, France, Norway, Singapore, Türkiye and the UK joined the Brazil-chaired, China- and EU-co-chaired coalition.
Why it matters. This is where the SBCE, China's ETS and the EU ETS converge on what an acceptable compliance offset looks like.
Australia's ACCU integrity bill advances, with a method kill-switch industry calls sovereign risk
An Integrity Risk Method Declaration power, a formal integrity committee, wider native-title consent; Senate report due 24 November.
Why it matters. A retroactive method kill-switch in the most mature domestic scheme is the precedent other hosts will copy.
Verra opens applications for Scope 3 Units
Agricultural land management and low-carbon concrete first; forestry to follow; first issuances in 2027.
Why it matters. A second product line for the same interventions: corporates with supply chains in your geography become buyers without an offset claim.
Biochar Industrial Group raises $1.5M to turn African agri-waste into removals
Pyrolysis at food processors across sub-Saharan Africa; trials showed up to 50 percent yield gains.
Why it matters. Durable removal that piggybacks on existing processing sites is a lower-tenure-risk model than land-based projects.
8 new listings, 18 status changes, 4 newly registered or certified.
The late list, the pipeline mix, and who is originating.
Most active proponents in the pipeline
- Tiipaalga 23 projects in pipeline or validation
- CO2balance UK ltd 23 projects in pipeline or validation
- Climate Secure India Pvt. Ltd 19 projects in pipeline or validation
- Value Network Ventures Pte. Ltd. 17 projects in pipeline or validation
- GTE KARBON SUSTAINABLE ENERJI EGITIM DANISMANLIK VE TICARET A.S. 11 projects in pipeline or validation
- Harbin Ruying Technology Co., Ltd. 10 projects in pipeline or validation
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