How Carbon Credits Can Help Close the Climate Funding Gap Governments around the world have committed to the goals of the Paris Agreement, but their climate pledges are insufficient. To keep a 1.5℃ world within reach, global emissions need to fall by as much as 45% by 2030. Bold and imme...
How a carbon credits scheme is seeking to speed up energy efficiency retrofits in the housing sectorThe UK government's record of supporting energy efficiency retrofits in the housing sector is not an impressive one, with recent administrations having presided over a succession of policy failures,...
People all across the world are making money and saving the planet through the selling of items called "Carbon Credits". These items can be anything from a tree to a windmill, and as long as they are doing something to help the environment, it can be sold. Carbon credits help save the...
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First things first, what exactly are we talking about here? Carbon removal is such a mainstay of media coverage and corporate talking points that it can be easy to lose track of what exactly the various technologies are, and why they're being deployed as a tool in the climate change...
Why Carbon Prices are Rising & How to Invest Summary: New legislation introduced to congress this month would make it possible for the U.S. agriculture industry to sell carbon credits to corporations that need them, seeing as farming provides vast opportunities to sequester carbon in the soil. ...
Sellers need to be assured their efforts will be fairly rewarded, buyers need to feel confident in the regulatory framework, environmental integrity of the credits they purchase, and overall, there needs to be confidence that the global carbon market architecture is well-functioning and able to ...
Core Climate connects capital with climate-related products and opportunities in Hong Kong, China, Asia and beyond. Participants will be able to source, hold, trade, settle and retire voluntary carbon credits through the Core Climate platform. The platform has been building momentum, with the numbe...
Carbon credits, the emission credits issued to companies by governments, can be sold on the carbon credit market to other companies. The money goes to the company that sold the credit. Money spent on carbon offsets goes to the project or entity sponsoring the carbon offset. Offsets are volun...
The challenge facing the markets, the WEF said, is to “ensure that carbon credits are a trustworthy representation of real mitigation action. The action must also be additional—that is, it would not have happened without the income from carbon credits—and permanent, and it must not result ...