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California program overestimates climate benefits of forest offsets
3 minute read - A view of the Garcia River Forest near Longvale, California July 27, 2009. The trees which trap quantities of the carbon dioxide that is warming the planet are sold as living carbon traps or "sinks" rather than cut for timber, a model that cou
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Forest regeneration that earned multimillion-dollar carbon credits resulted in fewer trees, analysis finds
Projects meant to regenerate Australia’s outback forests to store carbon dioxide have been awarded millions of carbon credits – worth hundreds of millions of dollars – despite total tree and shrub cover in those areas having declined, a new analysis has
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Shell's 'Carbon Capture' Plant Emitting As Much Pollution As 1.2 Million Cars Each Year
The pointless plant cost Canadians $654 million to make the world a dirtier placeBy: Erin Marquis Friday 8:30AMMassive oil companies will do anything to look like they are cutting emissions, as long as they aren’t actually cutting emissions and they can get
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The Blue Carbon Multiplier Effect: Lombok Fishers Link Mangrove Reforestation to Food Security
In the ecological asset market, we often focus exclusively on the metric of a single ton of carbon captured. However, recent coverage from the coasts of Lombok, Indonesia, reminds us why Blue Carbon demands a premium (The Blue Premium) in institutional markets
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The Compliance Shift: India Emerges as a Global Carbon Pricing Powerhouse
The global architecture of carbon pricing is undergoing a massive transformation. According to the World Bank's recent State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2026 report, global carbon pricing systems now cover an unprecedented 29% of global greenhouse gas emis
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The Real Trees Delivering Fake Corporate Climate Progress
"GreenTrees says it’s fighting climate change by reforesting thousands of acres. But it’s taking credit for other people’s trees."Jack Branning is a prosperous Mississippi businessman, with commercial interests stretching from Hattiesburg to Baton Rouge,
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The Sovereign Scale of Blue Carbon: What the Global Market Can Learn from China’s Mangrove Turnaround
A recent report by China Daily highlights a massive milestone in ecological conservation: China has become one of the few maritime nations to reverse the global trend of coastal deforestation, securing a 44% net increase in its mangrove forest area since 2000.
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Building Trusted Infrastructure: World Bank and Singapore Launch Landmark Carbon Markets Programme
As global carbon pricing revenue hits record highs, navigating market fragmentation and ensuring the underlying data integrity of carbon assets remains a complex challenge. To address these systemic bottlenecks, the World Bank Group and the Government of Singa
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Beyond Blue Carbon: The Vital Impact of Mangroves on Fisheries and Communities
When discussing mangrove conservation within the voluntary carbon market, discussions typically center around their extraordinary mitigation capacity: these coastal ecosystems can capture and store up to four times as much carbon per hectare as terrestrial tro
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Carbon-Credit Surplus Could Soon Turn to Shortage
Hundreds of companies plan to achieve their climate goals using carbon credits to offset the emissions they can’t eliminate on their own. Soon there might not be enough of the credits to go around.
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Climate change: Satellites map huge methane plumes from oil and gas
Huge plumes of the warming gas methane have been mapped globally for the first time from oil and gas fields using satellites. Plugging these leaks would be an important step in buying extra time to curb climate change. The new research found
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Article 6 creates two kinds of carbon credits — what that means for business
By Jesse Klein December 10, 2021 Using carbon credits toward corporate greenhouse gas emissions reductions has always been complex, and the passage of Article 6 during last month’s COP26 hasn’t made things any simpler.
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