EnergyReader · 2026-08-10 20:59

Japanese developer and Thai firms sign rice paddy carbon credit deal targeting JCM market

By EnergyReader Newsroom · August 10, 2026

Vietnamese firms declared readiness to develop carbon projects for international markets at a Hanoi workshop on July 23 (2026-07-23), an event organised by the Department of Climate Change and the Southeast Asia Energy Transition Partnership — the clearest sign yet that Southeast Asia's carbon origination pipeline is moving from government workshops into actual deal flow. The backdrop is a Japan-Thailand partnership to develop carbon credits from rice cultivation, one of the first concrete attempts to monetise methane reductions from Asian paddy fields at commercial scale.

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