Smart Net-Zero

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

January 9, 2025 | Mongabay |  Indonesia’s Forestry Minister Raja Juli Antoni has announced a plan to convert 20 million hectares of forest into food and biofuel estates, raising concerns over deforest

January 23, 2025 | Newtalk News (In Chinese) |  The 3rd meeting of the Taiwan’s National Climate Change Committee has unveiled a comprehensive decarbonization plan involving six key ministries to driv

January 23, 2025 | CNA NetZero (In Chinese) |  Taiwan’s Ministry of Agriculture outlined three key strategies to support the nation’s net-zero goal during the 3rd meeting of the Taiwan’s National Clim