Laos Launches Domestic Carbon Market, Eyes Blue Carbon and Clean Cooking Credits
COP17: Banks Welcome New Tool Quantifying Business Case for Nature Credits
China's Sichuan Nature-Market Pilot Inches Toward First Credit Issuance
Swiss Hardware Firm Rolls Out Global Supply Chain Decarbonisation Programme
Australian Timber Body Files FOI Over First Improved Native Forest Management ACCU Project
COP17: Governments Chart Diverging Paths on Biodiversity Credit Regulation
EU Carbon Price Outlook Splits as ETS Reform Clouds Post-2030 Balance
COP17: Reputational Gains and Risk Reduction Drive Voluntary Biodiversity Credit Purchases
Finland Evaluates Conservation Credit Integration Into National Nature Market
Verra Publishes October 2026 Newsletter With Registry Updates
## OzelCarbonOS VCM Intelligence Brief — 26 October 2026 **Asia & Global South demand signals strengthen as Laos and China advance domestic carbon and nature-market infrastructure.** The Lao government has formally begun establishing a domestic carbon credit market with an initial focus on blue-carbon (wetland conservation) and clean-cooking (fuelwood reduction) project types, partnering with a major private-sector infrastructure company ([Carbon Pulse](https://carbon-pulse.com/564263/)). Meanwhile in China, a multi-stakeholder Sichuan pilot is moving toward its first nature-credit issuance, …