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State of European Markets 2017 – Voluntary Carbon

In 2015, Ecosystem Marketplace tracked European voluntary buyers purchasing 16.1 MtCO2e, typically from renewable energy and forestry projects. Nearly all of the voluntary carbon offsets bought by European buyers originated from projects outside of Europe. Projects located in Europe produced relatively few carbon offsets for the voluntary market. The purpose of this report is to […]

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State of European Markets 2017 – Watershed Investments

By Genevieve Bennett, Alessandro Leonardi, Franziska Ruef - Forest Trends' Ecosystem Marketplace, ETIFOR, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace

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State of European Markets 2017 – Biodiversity Offsets and Compensation

By Genevieve Bennett, Ariadna Chavarria, Franziska Ruef, Alessandro Leonardi - Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, ETIFOR

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Unlocking Potential

State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2017

By Kelley Hamrick

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State of Private Investment in Conservation 2016

A Landscape Assessment of an Emerging Market

By Kelley Hamrick

11 January 2017 | New York | The private sector channeled $8.2 billion (B) of private capital into investments that seek measurable environmental benefits – in addition to financial returns – between 2004 and 2015 according to a report released today by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace. The report, which builds upon the 2014 report Investing […]

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Alliances for Green Infrastructure

State of Watershed Investment 2016

By Genevieve Bennett, Franziska Ruef

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View from the Understory

State of Forest Carbon Finance 2016

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Buying In

Taking Stock of the Role of Offsets in Corporate Carbon Strategies

14 July 2016 | Washington, D.C. | Among a group of nearly 2,000 companies that publicly disclosed data in 2015, 18% use offsetting as part of a carbon reduction strategy – including familiar household names such as L’Oréal, General Motors, and Delta Air Lines – according to a new report by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace, […]

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Supply Change: Tracking Corporate Commitments to Deforestation-free Supply Chains, 2016

06 June 2016 | London, England | A new report from Forest Trends’ Supply Change project tracks progress on 579 public commitments from companies around the world who have pledged to remove forest destruction from their supply chains. These businesses depend on the “big four” agricultural commodities – palm oil, wood products, soy, and cattle […]

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Raising Ambition

State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2016

By Kelley Hamrick and Allie Goldstein