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  • COP28: EU 'slowing progress on Article 6'

    11 December 2023

    As negotiations on Article 6 continue into the second week of COP28, Environmental Finance has heard that EU may be looking to 'curtail' negotiations amid concerns about how its own carbon mechanisms could be affected.

  • ICVCM responds to criticism following carbon principles release

    06 April 2023

    The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has responded to claims its work has come too late, following the release of its carbon principles, by stressing the need for offset standards.

  • ICVCM and its carbon principles are 'too late to the party', CfRN claims

    31 March 2023

    The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has arrived too late for carbon markets, an executive at sovereign market proponent CfRN has claimed, on the day it released its core carbon principles.

  • Sovereign carbon credits unsettle voluntary carbon markets

    18 October 2022

    Voluntary carbon market participants have expressed "trepidation" as large-scale sovereign carbon credits enter carbon markets, writes Annabelle Palmer

  • The benefits of sovereign carbon credits

    09 September 2022

    UNFCCC REDD+ Sovereign Carbon should form part of corporate climate mitigation portfolios, argue Kevin Conrad and Alistair Mullen

  • International carbon market 'will be addressed at COP27', webinar hears

    29 June 2022

    A framework for the international trading of carbon credits will be reviewed during COP27, a webinar heard, and could boost some countries' income by up to 15% of GDP.

  • Voluntary carbon market 'is a dying breed'

    21 March 2022

    Kevin Conrad, executive director at the Coalition for Rainforest Nations, sparked controversy over comments the voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a "dying breed" and must "necessarily disappear" if the goals of the Paris Agreement are to be achieved.

  • COP26 must deliver incentives to stop deforestation, says NGO

    25 August 2021

    An NGO that helped create the UN-mandated REDD+ programme has outlined its hopes for COP26, including that the summit will lead to more financial commitments...

  • Carbon credits deal will bring in $2bn, Hartree, Wildlife Works estimate

    02 August 2021

    Hartree Partners and Wildlife Works have signed a voluntary carbon deal they estimate will generate over $2 billion in private investment...

  • Will the real REDD+ step forward

    20 May 2021

    Paris Agreement-approved rainforest conservation carbon credits will rescue net-zero carbon goals, argues Kevin Conrad