Friday, 2nd October 2026

Anew Climate

Anew Climate Expands European Forest Carbon Portfolio Through Ten-Year Agreement with Sweden’s EKEN

Partnership brings Swedish improved forest management credits, developed under Verra’s VM0045, to Anew’s corporate buyers.

Anew Climate (Anew), one of the world’s largest developers and marketers of carbon credits, announced a ten-year agreement with EKEN Financing Value Added Forestry (EKEN) to bring Swedish improved forest management (IFM) credits to corporate buyers worldwide. The agreement extends Anew’s European forest carbon portfolio, which it maintains alongside millions of acres of managed forestland across North America.

Under the collaboration, Anew will serve as the exclusive commercialization partner for credits generated from projects developed by EKEN, handling purchaser engagements, structuring, and portfolio integration for corporate buyers in Europe and internationally.

EKEN is preparing the project for development under VM0045, Verra’s methodology for improved forest management using dynamic matched baselines from national forest inventories. While many conventional forest carbon baselines rest on a projection of what a landowner would hypothetically have done in the absence of a carbon project, VM0045 constructs baselines using statistically matched forests observed through national forest inventory data, allowing project outcomes to be evaluated against the measured performance of comparable forests. In August 2025, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approved VM0045 v1.2 as meeting its Core Carbon Principles, making v1.2 one of the first two improved forest management methodologies to earn the designation.