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Editorial hero: US Bank followed the two-step playbook JPMorgan used before Charm.

Before a Bank Underwrites Carbon Removal, It Buys It. The US Bank Carba Offtake Is a Diligence Move.

Project Finance · Carbon Removal · 8 September 2026 Before A Bank Underwrites Carbon Removal, It Buys It. The US Bank Carba Offtake Is A Diligence Move. US Bank’s first carbon removal offtake, with Minnesota biochar developer Carba, is not a scale-up story. It is a learning move that mirrors the

Article 6.2 senior debt facility with the offtake as collateral. Calculus Carbon.

Article 6.2 Just Got a Senior Debt Facility. The Offtake Is the Collateral.

Africa Go Green's USD 10.7M senior debt facility to BioLite in Zambia, secured on a Swiss compliance MOPA under the Zambia-Switzerland Article 6.2 bilateral, is the cleanest project-finance receipt Article 6.2 has produced to date.

First-loss layer where NbS blended finance is being repriced. Calculus Carbon analysis.

The First-Loss Layer Is Where NbS Blended Finance Is Being Repriced

Mirova's Sustainable Land Fund 2 targets a 20 percent junior equity tranche with a 15 percent floor, down from the LDN Fund's roughly 20 percent first-loss layer. That compression is the pricing signal for institutional capital in NbS.

Cream hero on the Senken-Carbonsate 50,000 tonne Namibia biomass storage offtake framed as a project-finance test

Contract First, Capacity Second: How A 50,000 Tonne Namibia Biomass Storage Offtake Reprices Project Finance For Permanent Removal

Project Finance · Permanent Removal · 1 September 2026 Contract First, Capacity Second: How A 50,000 Tonne Namibia Biomass Storage Offtake Reprices Project Finance For Permanent Removal Senken and Carbonsate’s 17 August 2026 announcement of a 50,000 tonne offtake for the Otjiwarongo biomass storage project in Namibia is a

Commodity trading houses as CORSIA compliance intermediaries. Analysis by the Calculus Carbon Capital Markets Desk.

Commodity Trading Houses As Compliance Intermediaries: How Their Positions Reprice Developer Risk In CORSIA

Marex, Econetix and Ecoeye are taking three different positions in the CORSIA compliance stack. Each one reprices a specific risk that used to sit on the developer.

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A Legal Route Is Not a Revenue Contract. What Vietnam's Resolution 235/NQ-CP Actually Delivers.

Vietnam's Resolution 235/NQ-CP approves the Article 6.2 implementation agreement with Singapore. The bilateral route is open. The project rules that make it financeable are still pending.

Verra approves insurance to replace AFOLU buffer pool. Cashflow shifts to insurer-backed cover.

Insurance Over Buffer Pool Contributions: The Cashflow and Debt Service Test for Durability Risk

Verra's durability pilot lets insurance replace buffer pool contributions. The project finance question is whether cover pricing, renewal and tenor align with issuance timing and debt schedules.

Calculus Carbon long-form cover, Green Earth Uganda payment-on-delivery VERPA and pre-financing gap.

A Long-Term Buyer Does Not Remove Pre-Financing Risk. It Makes the Risk Visible.

Project Finance · Nature-Based Solutions · 17 August 2026 A Long-Term Buyer Does Not Remove Pre-Financing Risk. It Makes the Risk Visible. Green Earth's Uganda Bulindi Verified Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement contracts USD 4.8M of future sales on a payment-on-delivery basis. The four-year gap between capex and first payment

Delivery Risk Terms Are Project Finance Terms, Calculus Carbon capital markets desk cover card.

Delivery Risk Terms in a Carbon Offtake Are Project Finance Terms

Project Finance · Nature-Based Solutions · 12 August 2026 Delivery Risk Terms in a Carbon Offtake Are Project Finance Terms Nature-based-solutions offtake clauses on buyer termination, security instruments and insurance decide whether a long-term contract can raise debt at all. By the Calculus Carbon Capital Markets Desk · Published 12 August 2026 · Reading

Cover card. Same Bank on Both Sides: the Charm and JPMorgan prototype for carbon project finance.

Same Bank on Both Sides: The Charm-JPMorgan Prototype for Carbon Project Finance

JPMorgan's USD 20M debt to Charm Industrial and its 61,500-tonne offtake are the same bank on both sides. That is the prototype for carbon project finance.

Mountain Hazelnuts case study hero. Seventeen years of concessional capital in Bhutan.

The Commodity Core Comes First: What Mountain Hazelnuts Tells Us About Financing Nature-Based Solutions

Mountain Hazelnuts spent seventeen years building the commodity leg before carbon entered the model. That sequence is the underwriting lesson for frontier NbS in the Global South.

The Two 50s: How Asset-Level DFC Guarantees and Outcome-Gated Carry Make Indonesian Agri Debt Underwritable

Blended Finance · Project Finance · 3 August 2026 The Two 50s: How Asset-Level DFC Guarantees and Outcome-Gated Carry Make Indonesian Agri Debt Underwritable ADM Capital’s Asia Climate-smart Landscapes Fund closed last week at USD 48M. The mechanic inside the vehicle is more interesting than the headline. Two structural design choices,

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