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World Bank data shows forestry and land-use credits remain dominant even as ETS and carbon tax systems expand.

Regenerate Asset Management’s carbon farming arm advances 40,000ha program, with first verification targeted for September 2027.

DCVC Bio partner Justin Kern says the firm’s ag investments focus on the 'shape' of agtech exits that has emerged and the presence of an obvious acquirer.

The firm plans to invest $100m in the US grasslands carbon project developer, with which it agreed a $40m funding agreement in 2024.

Sara Balawajder says the Lukas Walton-backed family office takes a wide-ranging approach to its search for fund and direct investments that promote regenerative practices in agriculture.

The deal, which lands amid a push to increase Australia’s low-carbon fuel production, sees fund managers positioning bioenergy as a new infrastructure subsector.

While the Australian government accelerates its buyback of water for environmental purposes, a review of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan shifts the gaze onto adjacent areas primed for investment.

The firm’s debut farmland vehicle will pursue an own-and-operate strategy and expects regenerative farmland certification to act as a ‘strategic value lever’.

The asset class is primed to have a big year as EU regulation forces importers of carbon intensive materials like steel to pay a levy on embedded emissions, making sustainable products like wood more competitive, says Foresight Natural Capital’s Richard Kelly.