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Microsoft rumours highlight carbon market concentration risk

Microsoft has denied reports it has abandoned the voluntary carbon market, but experts warned that it highlights the concentration risk in the market, with the tech giant being comfortably the biggest buyer of credits.

Microsoft agrees 2.85m soil carbon deal

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 2.85 million credits from Indigo Carbon's US-based regenerative agriculture project over the next 12 years.

Microsoft backs regeneration firm

Will financial institutions pile in to the voluntary carbon market?

Winners of Environmental Finance's annual Voluntary Carbon Market rankings say institutional investors can play a key role in providing the "missing middle" of finance. Genevieve Redgrave reports

Chestnut Carbon secures $210m for afforestation project financing

Microsoft in landmark soil carbon credit deal

Microsoft agrees 'world's largest' biochar deal

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.24 million tonnes of carbon removal credits from Exomad Green over the next 10 years, in what is thought to be the world's largest biochar deal.

Microsoft's climate fund inks first US timberland deal

Microsoft has invested in forest management firm EFM's latest fund, with a large-scale carbon removal deal inked alongside.

Microsoft agrees 1.4m tonne mining reforestation deal

Microsoft has agreed to purchase 1.4 million tonnes of carbon removal credits from Living Carbon's reforestation project in the eastern US.

Just Climate bags $175m for natural capital strategy