COMMENT: Best foot forward – starting on the road to scaling carbon removals

Published 13:09 on January 26, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:04 on December 19, 2023  /  Contributed Content, Other Content, Voluntary

Understanding the scalability of different carbon removal methods is a crucial first step on this journey towards achieving the billions of tonnes of removals a year needed to meet international climate targets, write Ted Christie-Miller and Victoria Harvey of BeZero Carbon.

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COMMENT: Tropical forest conservation is tricky to measure, but we’re running out of time

Published 19:19 on January 25, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Africa, Americas, Asia Pacific, Contributed Content, EMEA, International, Nature-based, Other APAC, Other Content, South & Central, Voluntary

Recent claims around the effectiveness of rainforest carbon credits are being hotly debated right now. And rightly so. Companies have reportedly paid over $1 billion for these credits, and they are being used to offset ‘real’ emissions. So, if they’re not genuine, that’s a massive problem for climate action, warns Edward Mitchard of mapping provider Space Intelligence.

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COMMENT: Know your market – building trust to scale the global carbon markets

Published 20:20 on January 24, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Contributed Content, Nature-based, Other Content, Voluntary

The voluntary carbon markets needs to continue developing the necessary infrastructure to increase the supply of credible projects and incentivise market participation, writes Robin Green of Carbonplace.

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SPONSORED: Post-COP27, Carbon Markets Turn Focus to Pricing -CME Group

Published 23:41 on January 23, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Climate Talks, Contributed Content, International, Nature-based, Other Content, Voluntary

Following COP27, carbon markets are focused on a pricing benchmark. CME Group GEO futures are seeing increased interest as a tool to manage carbon pricing risk.

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COMMENT: Behind the bears, we see plenty of bulls

Published 16:29 on January 5, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Contributed Content, Other Content, Voluntary

Why I remain bullish on the verified carbon markets, writes Melissa Lindsay, founder of Emstream and Emsurge.

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COMMENT: Along the curve – searching for value in the voluntary carbon market

Published 18:15 on January 4, 2023  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Contributed Content, Other Content, Voluntary

Carbon market broker Matt Udberg of ICAP assesses trading patterns in the voluntary carbon market as a shift in volume from physical markets to futures brought an influx of new counterparties over 2022.

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COMMENT: Preliminary results are in – good intentions for HFLD credits risk undermining climate change mitigation

Published 16:55 on December 22, 2022  /  Last updated at 12:44 on December 19, 2023  /  Aviation/CORSIA, Contributed Content, Nature-based, Other Content, Voluntary

ART/TREES and CORSIA must urgently restrict the use of HFLD credits to safeguard environmental integrity, argue several consultants critical of decisions by both bodies to enable HFLD credits to be used to offset fossil fuel emissions.

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COMMENT: Nature Positive must build on lessons learned from implementing the mitigation hierarchy

Published 11:59 on December 20, 2022  /  Last updated at 11:05 on December 19, 2023  /  Biodiversity, Contributed Content, Other Content

There is a risk that references to nature positive goals will become a tactic used to distract consumers and the public from a continued failure to manage development impacts on biodiversity. This risk must not be overlooked as implementation of the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework begins, write a group of biodiversity and conservation experts.

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COMMENT: Offsetting aviation emissions is greenwashing if the overall climate impact of flying is not taken into account 

Published 21:37 on December 16, 2022  /  Last updated at 11:06 on December 19, 2023  /  Aviation/CORSIA, Contributed Content, Other Content, Voluntary

Airlines need to stop their continued underestimation of flight emissions and policies need to be put in place to ensure high quality carbon credits are used, writes Niklas Kaskeala of Compensate.

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COMMENT: Carbon market myths busted!

Published 13:36 on December 15, 2022  /  Last updated at 11:06 on December 19, 2023  /  Contributed Content, Other Content, Voluntary

Much of the media and NGO community have recently muddied the waters around the global carbon market by repeating a set of myths around the market, writes Charles Bedford of Carbon Growth Partners.

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