COMMENT: And Yet it Burns – Climate Change, Galileo, and the late Pope Francis
It is Friday, June 14, 2019 and I am in the Vatican waiting for the Pope to make his entrance.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Ratings key to avoid bad carbon credits flooding compliance markets
To ensure integrity and effectiveness in compliance carbon markets, BeZero Carbon CEO and co-founder Tommy Rickets argues that governments must go beyond methodology-based approvals by mandating transparent, independent project-level carbon ratings, which will incentivise quality, minimise risk, and direct climate finance toward high-impact outcomes.
Read MoreCOMMENT: The Project Developer Forum’s voluntary carbon market aspirations for 2025
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) faced challenges in 2024 with low prices and limited activity, but key developments – such as advancements in standards, Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement, and COP29 breakthroughs – set the stage for growth. The Project Developer Forum outlines its seven aspirations for 2025, focussing on improving credit integrity, policy alignment, corporate engagement, and market innovation to revitalise carbon offsetting and advance climate action.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: Paris-aligned permanence does not require eternity
This blog argues that while permanent removals are essential, Paris-aligned mitigation requires massive carbon removals now, which only nature can deliver.
Read MoreCOMMENT: A purposeful scientific community of practice can help carbon markets deliver impact at scale
Nature-based solutions, particularly those harnessed by the voluntary carbon market, play a critical role in addressing the urgent interlinked crises of climate change and biodiversity loss by mobilising private finance for conservation and restoration, fostering interdisciplinary research, and ensuring ethical practices, even as they face scrutiny and require continuous improvement to scale their impact effectively.
Read MoreCOMMENT: After COP29, companies can no longer sit on the sidelines
As COP29 concludes, the progress on Article 6.4 signals potential for a robust global carbon market, but with a $1 trillion annual funding gap, companies must step up, leveraging emerging solutions like streamlined carbon credit auctions to decarbonise and secure a competitive, sustainable future.
Read MoreDOCUSERIES: Inbetween Stories – Exploring the intersection of technology and climate change
Inbetween Stories, a six-part docuseries by Carbon Pulse reporter Allison Gacad, takes a critical look at the knowledge, capital, and humanity behind Metro Vancouver’s climate solutions, exploring the intersection of technology and climate change. Watch all episodes for free.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Pakistan’s “hope” for carbon trading renewed – an update from the ground
Syeda Hadika Jamshaid is looking ahead to Pakistan’s first ever policy guidelines for carbon trading, set to be released at COP29 in Baku.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: The time is right for a forest moonshot in the US
Despite bipartisan support and progress in implementing natural climate solutions, the U.S. needs a significant, coordinated effort, or “moonshot,” to increase reforestation, protect forests, and manage lands sustainably to meet national climate goals, overcome current barriers, and prevent the loss of millions of acres of forest by mid-century, writes Sacha Spector, Program Director for the Environment at the Doris Duke Foundation.
Read MoreCOMMENT: As America confronts unique environmental challenges, carbon credits cannot be left on the sidelines
Communities across America depend on environmental remediation projects, such as Superfund cleanups and plugging oil wells, which require sustained financial commitment and innovative tools like carbon credits. While offsets effectively support these efforts, critics wrongly dismiss them as mere public relations tools, threatening the progress of essential environmental initiatives.
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