Market Insights Brief: VCM Demand Outlook, January 2026
What does demand look like for the voluntary carbon market (VCM) in 2026? To get an early read, Ecosystem Marketplace surveyed a sample of carbon project developers in December 2025 about how buyer behavior, pricing trends, and procurement activity compare to where the market was six months ago. Here are some highlights of what suppliers […]
2025 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM)
Meeting the Moment: Renewing Trust in Carbon Finance
Over the 20-year history of Ecosystem Marketplace (EM), we have seen carbon markets grow from a nascent idea into a mechanism with the potential to seriously mitigate global warming. Our annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM) provides a comprehensive overview of this global supply and demand of voluntary carbon credits. In this year’s […]
Nature’s investment frontier
Practical paths forward for biodiversity markets and finance
By Ricardo Bayon, Charles Bedford, Genevieve Bennett, Adam Davis, Ben Guillon, Katherine Hamilton, Michael Jenkins, Dr. Timothy Male, Martine Maron, Julia McCarthy, Yuejia Peng, Fabien Quétier, Mariana Sarmiento, Ryan Sarsfield, David Tepper, and Amrei von HaseBiodiversity-based investment themes are suddenly in the spotlight, after years of feeling like a bit of an understudy to the carbon market. Given a ballooning finance gap for nature, and the obvious materiality of nature risk to business, there is renewed interest in economic instruments that can drive private investment toward interventions to avert biodiversity […]
State of the Blue Carbon Market
An Ocean of Potential
By Tundi AgardyMany countries have already catalyzed major action toward carbon emissions reductions through reducing deforestation, forest degradation, conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+). The opportunities for ocean and coastal ecosystems to complement these mitigation efforts are many and are aided by the extensive experience gained through forest carbon initiatives. However, […]
2024 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM)
Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) publishes our annual State of the Voluntary Carbon Market (SOVCM) report–a series now approaching the two-decade mark–to provide a comprehensive overview of the global supply and demand of voluntary carbon credits. We interview and collect annual disclosures from market participants representing the majority of project developers and credit resellers, and combine this […]
2023 State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets Report
By Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends initiativeIn the lead-up to COP28, Ecosystem Marketplace published its flagship 2023 State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets report covering the latest prices, trends, and insights related to international voluntary carbon markets. The report was launched on November 28 at 10:00 am ET / 1500 GMT+1 during Ecosystem Marketplace’s Insights Briefing webinar – watch the recording […]
2023 All in on Climate: The Role of Carbon Credits in Corporate Climate Strategies
EM’s 2023 corporate voluntary buyers report, “All in on Climate: The Role of Carbon Credits in Corporate Climate Strategies,” is the first major update to its landmark “Taking Stock” report series since 2016. The analysis looks specifically at the climate-related behavior of companies purchasing voluntary project-based carbon credits for their own use compared with companies […]
The Art of Integrity
Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2022 Q3
Pursuing quality during a period of explosive growth – VCM value in 2021 quadrupled over 2020! New Ecosystem Marketplace data shows that total market value for voluntary carbon markets transactions in 2021 was nearly $2B, with a surge in transactions coming late in the year. That is a nearly four-fold increase from 2020 transactions ($520 […]
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Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2021
By Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends initiative
UPDATE: Voluntary Carbon Markets Top $1 Billion in 2021 with Newly Reported Trades, a Special Ecosystem Marketplace COP26 Bulletin (November 2021) 15 September 2021 | In the first eight months of 2021, voluntary carbon markets have already posted a near-60% increase in value from last year, driven by corporate net-zero ambition and growing interest in […]
A Green Growth Spurt, State of Forest Carbon Finance 2021
By Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends initiativeEcosystem Marketplace’s report, A Green Growth Spurt: State of Forest Carbon Finance 2021 (last iteration in 2017), published in collaboration with the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility of the World Bank, shows that funding to conserve and increase carbon stored in global forests has more than doubled in the last four years. However, forest carbon finance […]