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  • World Bank sells options to stimulate methane reductions

    16 September 2014

    The World Bank is launching a novel financing mechanism to attract private sector capital to projects that prevent or reduce emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

  • Voluntary carbon leaders look on the bright side

    30 June 2014

    The dominant players in the voluntary carbon market are optimistic about the future, despite a decline in volumes and prices between 2012 and 2013, according to the latest survey of the market by Environmental Finance.

  • Voluntary markets stand firm

    01 July 2013

    The growth of the California carbon market and continued demand from corporates helped the voluntary market stand firm in 2012. But in the future it will be projects that demonstrate other social benefits that prove most popular. Molly Peters-Stanley and Gloria Gonzalez explain.

  • Taking the pulse of the voluntary market

    09 May 2013

    Mark Nicholls reports on the results of Carbon Finance's latest Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings – and finds growth and innovation, but some anxiety about oversupply