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• Cautiously optimistic response to voluntary carbon blueprint

  28 January 2021

  A blueprint for scaling the voluntary carbon market was today cautiously welcomed as a development that will help boost confidence in carbon offsetting.

• Voluntary carbon market could put an end to claims of 'climate neutrality'

  11 June 2019

  Companies that buy emissions offsets in the voluntary carbon market may no longer be able to claim the transactions make them "carbon neutral", according to a consultation document drawn up by several market players.

• COP Blog: The principles to fuel effective climate policy

  02 December 2014

  The climate community faces a formidable task in Lima over the next two weeks. To reach a meaningful global agreement in Paris next year, we need to ensure that every dollar of climate finance accomplishes as much as it possibly can. This requires discipline and rigor in the new tools being developed and a deliberate focus beyond reducing emissions.