27Jan

Task Force to Scale the Voluntary Carbon Market Report

27 January ema.cima 0 Comments

Yet scale on it own is not the marker of success; it must go hand-in-hand with quality.

The key now is to scale voluntary carbon offsetting in the right way, not just to increase the market for its own sake.

15Jan

COMMENT: WWF 'Blueprint for Corporate Action on Climate and Nature' Key takeaways for the voluntary carbon market

15 January ema.cima 0 Comments

It is welcome, clarifying guidance and provides much-needed leadership for how to prioritise and implement various levers for change companies have at their disposal, helping companies focus their efforts for greatest integrity and impact.

08Dec

COMMENT: Taskforce to Scale the Voluntary Carbon Market: How to scale without sacrificing quality

08 December ema.cima 0 Comments

Originally published on Carbon Pulse.

Owen Hewlett, Chief Technical Officer, Gold Standard

The Task Force’s objective to scale the voluntary carbon market, bringing increased investment capital to climate protection projects as well as infrastructure and processes to improve efficiencies and increase transparency is a welcome market development.

27Nov

COMMENT: How the credibility of sustainable development impact claims can strengthen – or compromise – the voluntary carbon market

27 November claire.willers 0 Comments

In the early days of the Kyoto Protocol, sceptics claimed that sustainable development was too complex or expensive for carbon market projects. Or that markets could manage only one single indicator: carbon.

05Oct

COMMENTARY on the Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon Offsetting

05 October ema.cima 0 Comments

New analysis and initiatives point to continued growth in voluntary carbon offsetting, including Mark Carney's Task Force on Scaling the Voluntary Carbon Market. This underscores the potential for markets to catalyse high integrity, science-aligned climate action.

04May

CORSIA: What eligibility decisions mean for carbon markets

04 May ema.cima 0 Comments

While Gold Standard believes the requirements for a carbon-intensive sector like aviation to take accountability only for emissions for growth compared to a baseline is insufficient, especially without more ambitious decarbonization expectations, it is a testimony to the integrity of the voluntary carbon market that some of its standards are among those recognized for this new compliance mechanism. Drilling down deeper, the selection criteria yield key takeaways that stand to set a new minimum bar in carbon markets.

27Feb

Post 2020 voluntary carbon market principles

27 February ema.cima 0 Comments

A new context
Markets have evolved since the Kyoto Protocol. Science now tells us how we need to decarbonise and by when. The Paris Agreement accordingly includes emission reduction targets for all countries, improving upon the binary nature of the Kyoto regime.

30May

A New Paradigm for Voluntary Climate Action: ‘Reduce Within, Finance Beyond’

30 May admin 0 Comments

With commitments under the Paris Agreement falling short of what is needed to keep global temperature rises well below 2°C, there is a critical need for voluntary climate action to bridge the gap.

21Mar