Indonesia forest carbon and nature markets gain ground

Indonesia’s carbon-market narrative leaned further into forests this week, with policy-facing messaging and private-sector capacity building both pointing toward stronger use of forestry assets. Globally, nature finance kept broadening—from jurisdictional REDD+ and blue-carbon mapping to ecosystem-linked insurance—while litigation, fuel rules, and allowance trading shaped compliance signals.

Indonesia

A public item carried by Indonesia’s police news site presented the country’s forest-climate agenda as an international positioning opportunity, reinforcing official interest in turning forest stewardship into climate value. Website Resmi Polri

APHI has linked up with a climate-tech firm to help concession holders understand and prepare for carbon-market participation, indicating more organized private-sector readiness work inside Indonesia’s forestry industry. Carbon Pulse

Forests and nature credits

Ghana appears close to crediting from a major REDD+ forest-protection programme after a minister signalled progress in London, adding another potential jurisdictional supply source for buyers tracking high-integrity forest units. Carbon Pulse

Mongabay examines Honduras’ use of soldiers around protected areas as the government pursues its stated 2029 forest-loss target, highlighting the governance challenge behind nature-based mitigation claims. Mongabay

EU environment chiefs framed ecosystems as economic resilience assets and showed appetite for new instruments tied to nature outcomes, suggesting policy support for biodiversity-style crediting is moving into competitiveness debates. Carbon Pulse

A new research paper argues that insurance linked to ecosystem protection could lower climate exposure while attracting adaptation capital, creating another bridge between risk management and conservation finance. Carbon Pulse

Blue carbon and climate science

Carbon Pulse reports that a satellite-led mapping effort estimated global seagrass upper sediments held about 650 mln tCO2 during 2019-20, underscoring why coastal habitats remain central to blue-carbon project screening. Carbon Pulse

Policy, litigation, and industry decarbonisation

Washington finalised a rule for regenerative agricultural inputs in fuel supply chains, reinforcing policy support for biofuel-linked farm markets and potentially affecting low-carbon fuel accounting. Carbon Pulse

Carbon Pulse says Canada is directing more than C$19 mln into mining-related clean-energy and industrial emissions projects, with part of the package focused on decarbonisation within mineral supply chains. Carbon Pulse

A study cited by Carbon Pulse contends that the Canada-Alberta pricing compromise would keep pressure on fossil-based power costs, even after the proposed easing of industrial carbon charges. Carbon Pulse

A Paris court required TotalEnergies to strengthen climate-risk coverage in its due-diligence plan, adding legal momentum to corporate transition-plan accountability. Mongabay

Carbon price signals

Carbon Pulse described European allowances as edging toward a modest weekly rise while trading stayed subdued, with participants trimming risk before the weekend and energy prices weakening. Carbon Pulse