Gaurav

Jute is one of the fastest carbon sinks in agriculture. A single hectare absorbs 10 to 15 tonnes of CO2 in a growing cycle of roughly 120 days. That makes it a promising carbon credit. Whether it becomes a high-integrity, premium one depends entirely on verification. Tokere is putting that to the test in a pilot launching in the third quarter of 2026. The voluntary carbon market in 2026 does not pay for promising credits. It pays for provable ones. So the useful question about any new credit...

The voluntary carbon market has split in two. Credits carrying the Core Carbon Principles label trade at a clear premium, while generic avoidance offsets have fallen below $1 per tonne. The obvious lesson is to buy quality. The more valuable one is that the dividing line is verification, and verification is where the returns are. Every carbon commentator will tell you the market is bifurcating in 2026. They are right, and it is the least interesting thing to say about it, because it is...

Financed emissions are the greenhouse gases a bank owns through its loans and investments. Banks representing more than $75 trillion in assets have adopted the accounting standard for them. Only about a third meet its data-quality bar. That gap used to be a reporting footnote. In 2026 it is becoming a capital and collateral problem. For years, financed emissions were treated as a disclosure exercise, a number for the sustainability report, produced once a year and rarely questioned. That...