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No More Price Takers: Five Disruptive Ideas for Fair Value for Forests
Genevieve Bennett, Dr Theresia Ott, Gabriel Labbate, and Nathan Truitt
[Feature image: Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD+ Project. Credit: Roshni Lodhia for Carbon Tanzania] Add up all of the greenhouse gas emissions released every year from airplanes and the shipping sector and multiply it by four. That roughly equals the total emissions released, every year, by tropical forests being cut down. We cannot meet climate goals without […]
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Carbon Prices for the UK Voluntary Carbon Market Published for the Third Year with Aim to Drive Transparency
May 15
  |  Carbon Market

2025 May 15 | Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) publishes voluntary carbon market (VCM) prices for the United Kingdom’s (UK) domestic carbon units from Woodland Carbon Code (WCC) and Peatland Code (PC) projects today, covering transactions from 2020 through 2024. This is the third year EM is collaborating with Scottish Forestry and the The International Union for Conservation […]
The Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) on three key actions for companies in 2025 to remove deforestation from agricultural and forestry supply chains
May 13
  |  Agriculture

This statement was originally posted on the Accountability Framework initiative website. 2025 is a milestone year for efforts to halt destruction of forests and other natural ecosystems. Numerous companies, financial institutions, and industry associations, as well as leading global frameworks such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and the UN High Level Expert Group […]
Release: Forest Trends and GreenData Launch Resource Center to Support Indigenous and Local Communities in Climate and Conservation Finance
May 8
  |  Climate change

This release was originally published in the Forest Trends pressroom. Washington, DC, 8 May 2025 – Forest Trends, in partnership with GreenData, has launched a new digital Resource Center designed to equip Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs) with trustworthy information on climate and conservation finance, carbon markets, and territorial governance. This online […]
Shades of REDD+
Carbon removals, the Paris climate goals and permanence requirements
December 17

This blog argues that while permanent removals are essential, Paris-aligned mitigation requires massive carbon removals now, which only nature can deliver.
How We Harness an Infrastructure Boom to Close the Biodiversity Finance Gap
November 18
  |  Biodiversity Market

This article is adapted from a forthcoming discussion paper, “Habitat Banks: Expanding a Proven Tool to Protect Threatened Ecosystems.” Global-record levels of investment in infrastructure are, ironically, posing a massive threat to our planet’s infrastructure.  By that we mean natural infrastructure: the natural areas and processes that filter our water, minimize flooding, absorb air pollution, […]
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Integrity Council approves three REDD+ methodologies
November 14
  |  Carbon Market

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced today that it has approved three methodologies for issuing high integrity carbon credits for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+):   (ART) The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) v2.0, TREES Crediting Level   (VCS) VM0048 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation […]
New report: “An Ocean of Potential” exists for Blue Carbon finance, an essential yet largely untapped climate mitigation strategy
November 11
  |  Climate change

Analysis published by Ecosystem Marketplace and the Katoomba Group finds there is vast potential for investment in coastal and marine habitats to stem degradation and maximize the potential of these ecosystems to mitigate climate change. These Blue Carbon (BC) habitats sequester carbon at high rates—even higher than terrestrial forests, by some estimates. However, these critical […]
Climate change
Commentary
How to Make Trees Worth More Standing Than Cut Down
James Salzman
November 11, 2024
This article originally appeared on the Katoomba Group blog. West of Sydney, Australia, lies the Blue Mountains, a range of plateaus and panoramic canyons forested with eucalyptus trees. Oil in the leaves produces a bluish haze, hence the name of the area. Twenty-five years ago, in 1999, a new NGO called Forest Trends brought together […]
Climate change
5 messages we heard at the Nature Hub at New York Climate Week
Commentary
The Time is Right for a Forest Moonshot in the U.S.
New climate and nature capacity building tool launched for the Global South
Commentary
How Carbon Markets Can Serve as a Catalyst to a Low-carbon, Green Economy
New Report: The Voluntary Carbon Market Contracted in 2023, Driven by Drop-off in Transactions for REDD+ and Renewable Energy
New carbon credit integrity guidelines could boost buyer confidence in agriculture
Biodiversity Market
Commentary
Offsets and Investments: Thoughts on De-linking Economic Development and Biodiversity Loss
Adam Davis
November 11, 2024
This article originally appeared on the Katoomba Group blog. This year marks the 25th anniversary of the first Katoomba Group meeting – a community that first came together in 1999 with a  shared quest to convert the theoretical value that comes from restoring nature into a practical way for people to make a living.  It’s […]
Biodiversity Market
Beetles in a Pay Stack: Stacking and Bundling in Biodiversity Credit Markets
Shades of REDD+
Harmonized Biodiversity Claims as a Solution for Fragmented Biodiversity Markets
EM Insights Briefings: Pricing Co-benefits & SDGs in the VCM + Voices from the Ground
Crediting Wind and Solar Power for Saving Species
Banks Bankrolling Extinction to Tune of $2.6 Trillion
Navigating the Turbulent Waters of US Environmental Policy
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