Childcare at the tree nurseries
Restoration depends on people being able to take part. At Kabuye and Mageragere, childcare addresses a practical barrier to nursery work.
Read story ↗Signal
Climate developments
A source-rated feed of the developments shaping the climate economy: funding, acquisitions, new methodologies, registry tech and satellite launches, with the most depth where the hub is deepest, carbon and nature-based MRV. Each item carries an evidence rating, the hub’s trust signature.
From SUNCASA projects
Published project stories, shown with their original dates.
Two years into SUNCASA’s Kigali work
Planting is one part of restoration. Community work and continued tree care connect the reported landscape changes to everyday life in Kigali.
Read story ↗Students lead Kigali’s Green City Clubs
Rwanda Young Water Professionals connects environmental learning with student leadership through Green City Clubs, supported by SUNCASA.
Read story ↗How field monitoring informs restoration
SUNCASA combines field observations, existing public data and models. The monitoring approach differs with the data available in each city.
Read story ↗Understanding participation beyond attendance
Participation counts show reach. SUNCASA’s inclusion work also asks how people understand household roles, shared decisions and access to nature-based activities.
Read story ↗Published updates21 updatesUpdated with each hub release
Feb 2026
Verra approves 3.03M soil-carbon credits for a Boomitra grassland project in Mexico
Verra approved Boomitra’s largest soil-carbon issuance to date, 3.03 million removal credits for a Northern Mexico grassland project, underscoring the scale of satellite-plus-sample soil MRV in the Global South.
Feb 2026
Cecil raises $2.6M seed and ships a global mining dataset
The API-first spatial-data layer Cecil closed a $2.6M seed round and released a global mining dataset, extending its catalogue of nature, biomass and EUDR/TNFD layers.
Jan 2026
Global Forest Watch integrates DIST-ALERT for near-real-time global vegetation-disturbance monitoring
Global Forest Watch added DIST-ALERT, combining Landsat and Sentinel-2 data to flag disturbance inside forests and across grasslands, wetlands and croplands globally, extending near-real-time monitoring relevant to tropical MRV.
Jan 2026
Calyx Global ratings go live on the Bloomberg Terminal
Calyx Global’s dual GHG and SDG carbon-credit ratings began delivery on the Bloomberg Terminal, putting integrity scores next to pricing and project data for institutional buyers.
Dec 2025
Verra releases VCS Version 5.0
Verra published Version 5.0 of the Verified Carbon Standard, mandatory for new registrations from 1 January 2027, with a phased Project Hub rollout through 2026.
Nov 2025
DNV selects NatureAlpha as its biodiversity and nature-data provider
DNV picked NatureAlpha’s Geoverse platform as its nature-data layer, putting TNFD-aligned biodiversity risk across 8.5 million asset locations in front of DNV clients alongside its climate tool.
Nov 2025
CAFI launches a Congo Basin mobile direct-payment scheme at COP30
The Central African Forest Initiative launched a payments-for-ecosystem-services scheme that pays farmers directly via mobile money, made its first payments and added a $100M commitment, the most DRC-relevant benefit-sharing rail in the map.
Nov 2025
Carbon Direct acquires Pachama
Carbon Direct acquired the forest-carbon dMRV platform Pachama, folding it into its diligence and advisory suite, a signal of consolidation in standalone dMRV platforms.
Oct 2025
IBM and ESA release TerraMind edge models
TerraMind.tiny and TerraMind.small shipped, bringing the open any-to-any multimodal EO foundation model to laptops and onboard-satellite inference for near-source analysis.
Oct 2025
Satellogic launches its NextGen 30cm-class platform
Satellogic unveiled a NextGen very-high-resolution platform with 30cm-class imagery and on-orbit AI analytics, sharpening its low-cost, high-frequency offer for Global South monitoring.
Oct 2025
SMART and EarthRanger merge into SERCA
The SMART Partnership and EarthRanger announced SERCA, merging the two most widely used conservation-management platforms into one free system, with EarthRanger to be rebranded SERCA from 2026.
Aug 2025
Pixxel completes its six-satellite Firefly hyperspectral constellation
Pixxel launched the final three Firefly satellites, completing the highest-resolution commercial hyperspectral constellation at around 5m across 250-plus bands, India-anchored with Global South positioning.