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Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 148.5 million (~USD 27 million) in financing to Bioo Paraná Holding S.A. to build a biomethane production plant in Toledo, western Paraná. The credit is split between BRL 101.5 million from the Fundo Clima (National Climate Change Fund) and BRL 47.1 million from the Finem line, against a total planned project investment of BRL 196 million. The plant will produce 11 million cubic meters of biomethane per year plus organic-based fertilizer, avoiding an estimated 80,000 tonnes of CO2-equivalent annually, and is expected to generate 210 direct and indirect jobs during construction and 90 permanent positions.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved a BRL 384.3 million (~USD 70.2 million) loan under its "BNDES Mais Inovação" innovation credit line to FS Indústria de Biocombustíveis Ltda. (FS Bioenergia), financing the country's first Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) unit at its corn-ethanol plant in Lucas do Rio Verde, Mato Grosso. The facility will compress, inject, and permanently store CO2 in the saline sedimentary reservoirs of the Parecis Basin, targeting removal of ~423,000 tonnes of CO2 per year — effectively eliminating the plant's process emissions. The loan is state-directed concessional financing for a single named domestic producer and forms part of BNDES's broader decarbonisation and carbon-market financing push aligned with the Lula government's energy-transition agenda.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 76.4 million in financing to Biometano São Leopoldo S.A. (Grupo Solví) to build a biomethane production plant in São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul, with capacity of 32,400 m3/day. The credit covers about 80.1% of total project investment and is split between BRL 61.1 million from the Fundo Clima (National Climate Change Fund) and BRL 15.3 million from Finem. The plant will purify landfill biogas from the CRVR sanitary landfill (Solví Group) into biomethane, avoiding an estimated 80,000+ tonnes of CO2-equivalent per year.

Brazil's national development bank BNDES approved BRL 131.1 million in financing to Gás Verde for two projects: the country's first green-CO2 recovery plant, in Seropédica (Rio de Janeiro), and a new biomethane production plant in Igarassu (Pernambuco). The Seropédica unit will capture and purify CO2 co-produced with biomethane, reaching approximately 100 tonnes/day; the Igarassu plant will process biogas from the Ecoparque Pernambuco sanitary landfill into 45,600 Nm3/day of biomethane. Roughly BRL 89.3 million of the total credit is drawn from the Fundo Clima (National Climate Change Fund).

Spain's Ministry of Industry and Tourism (MINCOTUR) provisionally approved EUR 90 million in grants across five industrial-decarbonisation projects under Line 4 of the PERTE Descarbonización (Spain's Recovery-and-Resilience-Plan-funded strategic decarbonisation programme). The largest award, EUR 60 million, went to Hydnum Puertollano (Ciudad Real) for a green-steel mill; other recipients were Biotérmica Villanueva (EUR 12m for a biomass plant converting orange waste to energy in Huelva, plus EUR 4.6m for an olive-pomace renewable-energy plant in Lebrija, Sevilla), Alier (EUR 9.6m, sustainable recycled-paper production in Zaragoza), and Cimsa Cementos España (EUR 3.7m, emissions reduction in Buñol, Valencia cement manufacturing). The announcement, made by Industry Minister Jordi Hereu on 23 April 2025, brought total PERTE Descarbonización disbursement to approximately EUR 570 million across 93 projects nationwide.