O ambiente de financiamento climático está em risco. Confrontados com uma investida de cobertura da mídia orientada por uma agenda que visa desacreditar uma das maiores fontes de financiamento disponíveis para a proteção florestal, mecanismos como REDD+ e mercados voluntários de carbono podem ser injustamente desacreditados a ponto de perderem impulso e apoio em um […]
El espacio de las finanzas climáticas está en riesgo. Frente a una avalancha de cobertura mediática impulsada por una agenda que busca desacreditar una de las mayores fuentes de financiamiento disponibles para la protección de los bosques, los mecanismos como REDD+ y los mercados voluntarios de carbono pueden verse injustamente desacreditados hasta el punto de […]
18 July 2023 | Football for Forests, a joint initiative created by think tank Climate Focus and Planet League, is committed to the restoration of tropical forests through the unity and passion of the global football community. To achieve this goal, the Football for Forests app was created. It was officially launched during an evening […]
For most companies or people buying carbon credits, the whole point of the transaction is that ton of carbon. Co-benefits like poverty reduction and wildlife protection had been historically seen as just a nice add-on. What most buyers don’t understand is that for projects on the ground, co-benefits aren’t extras – they’re what make emissions reductions possible. Last month, I traveled to Kenya to visit the Kasigau Corridor REDD+ project, to understand how this reality plays out on the ground.
When used with integrity, voluntary carbon markets (VCM) can accelerate climate mitigation and capital flows to emerging economies and contribute meaningfully to the Paris Agreement goals and the UN SDGs. The VCMI Claims Code developed through a global, multi-stakeholder collaborative process that will establish integrity on the demand side of VCMs and pave the way towards regulation. VCMI calls on all large companies to implement the Claims Code and help unleash the full potential of high-integrity VCMs.
A study recently published in Nature Communications by researchers at the University of Maryland (UMD), Northern Arizona University, University of Arizona, Conservation International and more has found that worldwide protected forests have an additional 9.65 billion metric tons of carbon stored in their aboveground biomass compared to ecologically similar unprotected areas—a finding that quantifies just how important […]
Emissions trading systems and carbon taxes showed themselves to be resilient in the last year. Despite a global energy crisis, high inflation, and fiscal pressures, emissions trading systems (ETSs) and carbon taxes posted record high revenues, according to the World Bank’s just-released State and Trends in Carbon Pricing 2023. Through our partnership with the World […]
