As carbon markets mature, buyers want to protect their assets, just like any other asset class. Now, a wave of providers, both emerging startups and traditional institutions alike, are stepping in to...
Improved cookstoves are gaining popularity in the voluntary carbon markets. While these technology-based avoidance projects offer a variety of benefits for buyers, users and developers, they aren’t...
Increased scrutiny of climate claims, accusations of greenwashing and a lack of clear guidance on how to best participate in the VCMs seems to have left the market in limbo. The rapid rise in credit prices,...
Understanding the true value of carbon stores in trees is essential to fighting climate change. However, today we lack reference data from many areas of the world’s forests due to inaccessibility...
The Voluntary Carbon Markets have evolved greatly with the development of new approaches to increase quality, integrity and transparency. In this interview, Jen Jenkins, Chief Science Officer of Rubicon...
From the USA’s Inflation Reduction Act to major companies like Microsoft, H&M, Autodesk, and JP Morgan pledging investments to fund carbon removal technology, it’s clear that a removals-only...
There are currently major initiatives underway in the VCMs to produce guidance, which will strengthen market integrity, boost confidence and unleash exponential growth. We need them to succeed, but it...
A more equitable approach is aligned with climate justice, which is based on systems that work to address the root causes of climate change as opposed to the symptoms alone. This conversation will shed...
Technology and nature are often pitted against one another when it comes to carbon projects. But technology is also enabling the development of a new generation of high-quality nature-based projects,...