Assets About Voluntary Carbon Market
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EACs for Scope 3 — Not Perfect, But Necessary
Despite promising developments, industry efforts to eliminate scope 3 emissions will not scale in time. EACs allow companies to invest in climate-change mitigation activities while they decarbonize their value chains. ... View More
Human Rights: The Missing Piece in Nature-Based Climate Finance
The Climate Justice Standard ensures nature-based solutions and market-based mechanisms can effectively protect human rights while fighting climate change. ... View More
Charting a Clear Path Forward on Corporate Use of Carbon Credits
It may seem safer to sit on the sidelines, but this bias towards inaction is why we are failing to achieve our climate goals. We cannot let uncertainty prevent action where it counts most — reducing carbon emissions into the atmosphere. ... View More
First US Nature-Based Carbon Credit Auction Coming in 2025
The American Forest Foundation Carbon Auction will offer companies a transparent and streamlined way to secure high-quality carbon credits while supporting rural communities and family forest owners. ... View More
New ‘Climate Label’ Requires Companies to Invest in Climate Solutions
Talk is cheap: The first-of-its-kind certification requires internal carbon pricing and funding for GHG-reduction projects as criteria — aiming to accelerate corporate climate investment. ... View More
Balancing Risk and Impact in the Evolving Carbon Market
The rapid growth of the voluntary carbon market has resulted in a mismatch between supply of and demand for quality carbon credits. ... View More
How High-Integrity Credit Projects Deliver Impacts Beyond Carbon
How can buyers and sellers of carbon credits ensure the projects they choose will have the desired impacts and climate outcomes? ... View More
Antonioli: Carbon Markets Must Center on Long-Term, Sustainable Development Impacts
Former Verra CEO David Antonioli believes the carbon market is missing a golden opportunity to design and deploy carbon finance as a powerful transitional tool toward a zero-carbon economy. He outlines his vision in a new, six-part report. ... View More
The SBTi Drama Underscores the Urgent Need for Valid Scope 3 Solutions
Whether carbon credits ought to be used to account for Scope 3 emissions is a debate that must continue — involving many more stakeholders, so that views on both sides of the fence are heard and considered. ... View More
Interface Commits to Carbon Negativity, Without Offsets, by 2040
The sustainability leader sets out to hit its climate goals through direct carbon reduction and carbon storage — and challenges industry peers to do the same. ... View More
First 3 Carbon-Offset Programs Deemed Trustworthy by Integrity Council
In what it’s calling a new chapter of trust and standardization for the voluntary carbon market, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market gives three carbon-crediting programs its seal of approval. ... View More
Startup on a Mission to UNDO Climate Change by ‘Putting Carbon in Its Place’
Using enhanced rock weathering to draw down carbon from the atmosphere, UNDO aims to spread enough crushed rock on farmlands by 2025 to permanently remove 1M tons of CO2. ... View More
How to Ensure Better Offsets and Save the Carbon Market
Newer players Climate Vault and Covalent are banking on their unique approaches — along with the dreaded “R” word, regulation — to salvage the credibility and efficacy of carbon markets. ... View More
Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral:’ Refining Corporate Carbon-Credit Claims
With the explosive growth of the voluntary carbon market came concerns around carbon-reduction claims lacking clarity or being misleading. Several refined claims frameworks have emerged to bridge these gaps. ... View More
Climate Vault Aims to Spur Climate Action by Locking Away Carbon Permits
The organization works to purchase and vault CO2 permits from regulated cap-and-trade compliance markets — thus keeping major polluters from using them to emit and, theoretically, stopping pollution before it happens. ... View More
Carbon Neutral Is Dead; Long Live Nature Positive
If we invest in public campaigns for nature positive and brands shout it from the rooftops, we save what was originally valuable about the voluntary carbon market while actually doing what’s right for nature. ... View More
High-Quality, Nature-Based Solutions in Indonesia: Allying with Communities, Restoring Ecosystems
When implemented thoughtfully, nature-based climate-action projects support biodiversity and connect communities, governments and other organizations to make long-lasting, impactful changes that no one group could do alone. ... View More
Is the Voluntary Carbon Market Worth Saving?
Despite its flaws, I believe that the VCM is an essential tool in our climate toolkit. To ensure funding is channeled into real climate-action projects, we still must drive greater integrity and transparency. Here are four ways we can do that. ... View More
L'Oréal, Apple Continue to Cultivate Nature-Based Climate and Biodiversity Solutions
The two companies have expanded the scope and scale of their respective nature-focused impact-investment funds. ... View More
New Coalition Hailing Blockchain as Linchpin of Successful Climate Action
The Blockchain x Climate Leadership Network is an activist-to-industry coalition of international stakeholders collaborating to define and create principles for meaningful blockchain initiatives to address the climate crisis. ... View More
