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Shoosmiths secures five-year carbon removal offtake with Carbonaires

9 July 2026

Shoosmiths secures five-year carbon removal offtake with Carbonaires

Shoosmiths, one of the UK’s leading law firms, has entered into a five-year pre-purchase forward offtake agreement with Carbonaires, securing a long-term supply of durable biochar carbon removals from HUSK to support its zero net operational emissions. Rather than buying spot credits, Shoosmiths locked in supply, volume and price over five years — a strategic, long-term approach to high-integrity carbon removal.

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31 July 2026

July 2026 Newsletter

Issue #75 of the Carbonaires Monthly Newsletter examines the European Commission’s proposal to revise the EU Emissions Trading System, published on 17 July: a 250 million allowance facility ring-fenced to purchase BioCCS and DACCS removals through to 2040, a further 260 million allowances for high-integrity international credits, and a slower cap decline. Set alongside SBTi Version 2 and the draft ISO 14060 standard, it points to carbon removal demand that can be modelled, dated and priced, and to a creditworthy government offtake that begins to solve the tenor problem holding back debt financing.

20 July 2026

Superpollutants: the fastest lever on near-term warming

Superpollutants — methane, HFCs, nitrous oxide and other non-CO2 climate pollutants — are responsible for roughly half of the warming experienced today, and abating them is now seen as the fastest available lever on temperature this decade. With Google making its first move into the market and superpollutant categories the first through the ICVCM gate, CCP-labelled credits rated among the market’s highest quality are now available at a fraction of removal prices.

9 July 2026

Shoosmiths secures five-year carbon removal offtake with Carbonaires

30 June 2026

June 2026 Newsletter

Issue #74 of the Carbonaires Monthly Newsletter covers two developments shaping carbon markets in June 2026: our analysis of the SBTi Corporate Net-Zero Standard Version 2 — a measured step in the right direction that recognises companies’ ongoing emissions through a new Ongoing Emissions Responsibility framework, but stops short of the near-term incentive needed to mobilise the corporate removal demand the market requires to scale — and a review of London Climate Action Week 2026, where the market’s centre of gravity shifted decisively from ambition to execution.

29 May 2026

May 2026 Newsletter

Issue #73 of the Carbonaires Monthly Newsletter covers three developments shaping carbon markets in May 2026: why portfolio construction is the buyer’s first line of defence as deliveries slip behind contracts, the policy push to unlock carbon removal demand through buyers’ clubs and corporate claims clarity, and the EU’s draft rules opening CBAM to Article 6 credits and what this signals for compliance-driven credit demand.

19 May 2026

Carbon Markets at a Crossroads: Key Takeaways from Zurich Climate Week 2026

Key takeaways from Zurich Climate Week 2026 (5–7 May 2026). Across the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook launch, UBS Innovating for Nature, the Green Fintech Network CDR session and UBS Energy Transition, the message was consistent: the market has moved past intention, and execution is now the measure of credibility.

Argus Europe Carbon Conference 2026, Nice

13 May 2026

EU Carbon Markets at a Decision Point: Key Takeaways from the Argus Europe Carbon Conference 2026

Key takeaways from the Argus Europe Carbon Conference 2026 in Nice (11–13 May 2026). With the EU ETS under review, CBAM in its definitive phase, the CRCF approaching first issuances, and CORSIA implementation faltering, the European carbon market is at a decision point — and the missing piece is demand-side policy, not supply.

11 May 2026

Energy and Carbon Are Now One Conversation: Reflections from Energy Tech Summit 2026

Reflections from Energy Tech Summit 2026 at the Euskalduna Conference Centre in Bilbao (15–16 April 2026). 1,400+ senior attendees from KKR, BlackRock, Shell, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Iberdrola and more set out how the energy infrastructure build-out has fully absorbed the carbon question — and what that means for high-integrity carbon removal demand, the “last 20%” problem and compute-linked credit models.

AI Infrastructure is Becoming an Energy Story: Carbon Markets Should Pay Attention

11 May 2026

AI Infrastructure, Energy and the Carbon Market Opportunity: Key Takeaways from the Barclays NextGen Energy Conference 2026

Key takeaways from the Barclays NextGen Energy Conference 2026 in New York (14 April 2026). AI infrastructure is now an energy, grid, resilience and carbon market story — and hyperscaler demand for credible, durable, high-integrity carbon solutions is set to grow as compute investment accelerates.

7 May 2026

Carbon Markets and Capital Realignment: Key Takeaways from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2026

Key takeaways from the Milken Institute Global Conference 2026 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles (3–6 May 2026). The carbon market is consolidating around institutional-grade diligence, the narrative is pivoting from sustainability to resilience, and the capital disconnect between AI infrastructure and climate finance is reshaping how corporate buyers should think about strategy.

7 May 2026

April 2026 Newsletter

Issue #72 of the Carbonaires Monthly Newsletter covers three developments shaping carbon markets in April 2026: Microsoft’s CDR purchasing pause framed as a leadership transition rather than a withdrawal, the Carbonaires RFP for offtake-backed financing of high-integrity carbon removal projects, and Vietnam’s new Article 6 decree and what it signals about where future CDR demand will sit.

Carbonaires RFP for Financing Offtake-Backed Carbon Removal Projects

27 April 2026

Carbonaires Launches RFP for Offtake-Backed Financing of High-Integrity Carbon Removal Projects

Carbonaires today opens its Request for Proposals (RFP) for offtake-backed financing of high-integrity carbon removal projects globally. Open to all engineered and nature-based pathways with a minimum $3 million offtake contract, the RFP brings Carbonaires’ network of institutional investors to qualified developers through a structured, two-stage process. Submissions close 22 May 2026.

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