Smart Net-Zero

February 16, 2025 | Voice of Vietnam (VOV) | Japan is playing a key role in Vietnam’s digital and green transformation of rice farming in the Mekong Delta. Through the “One Million Hectares of High-Qu

February 6, 2025 | CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) | Australia’s “Towards Net Zero Agriculture Pathfinder Manual,” developed by CSIRO and the Clean Energy Finance

February 25, 2025 | Science |  The United States has unexpectedly withdrawn key support for the IPCC’s seventh assessment report. NASA canceled its technical support unit contract, and U.S. officials,

January 13, 2025 | World Economic Forum (WEF) | This year 2025 marks a pivotal moment for nature-positive finance as financial institutions increasingly align capital flows with biodiversity goals. Ov

January 17, 2025 | Carbon Herald | Agreena has achieved a major milestone by becoming the first large-scale cropland project registered under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) VM0042 for Improved

February 1, 2025 | BBC News | To meet its 2050 net-zero and biodiversity targets, the UK government plans to repurpose 9% of England’s farmland into woodland and wildlife habitats. Launched by Environ

February 19, 2025 | Central News Agency (In Chinese) | Taiwan’s Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) has released draft ecological guidelines for solar development on farmland, aiming to balance renewable en

February 2, 2025 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |  The International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and Kubota Corporation have launched a field experiment to evaluate strategies for r

January 7, 2025 | International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |  A recent study “Advanced technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from rice fields: Is hybrid rice the game changer?”, publi

January 10, 2025 | CarbonCredits.com |  Verra has updated the compensation process for 4.56 million over-issued Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) linked to 37 rejected rice cultivation projects in China. A

January 21, 2025 | World Economic Forum |  Rice, a staple for over half the world’s population, also contributes 1.5% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, largely due to inefficient fertilizer us

January 6, 2025 | The Nation |  Thailand’s Agriculture and Cooperatives Ministry is promoting low-carbon rice cultivation to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, advance its climate goals, and enhan