The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) has published its first Continuous Improvement Work Program (CIWP) report, focusing on one of the carbon market’s most persistent challenges: permanence. The report provides targeted recommendations for how the voluntary carbon market can better manage the risk that sequestered carbon will be released back into the […]

This statement was originally posted on the Accountability Framework initiative website. 2025 is a milestone year for efforts to halt destruction of forests and other natural ecosystems. Numerous companies, financial institutions, and industry associations, as well as leading global frameworks such as the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) and the UN High Level Expert Group […]

This release was originally published in the Forest Trends pressroom. Washington, DC, 8 May 2025 – Forest Trends, in partnership with GreenData, has launched a new digital Resource Center designed to equip Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs & LCs) with trustworthy information on climate and conservation finance, carbon markets, and territorial governance. This online […]

[Feature image: Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape REDD+ Project. Credit: Roshni Lodhia for Carbon Tanzania] Add up all of the greenhouse gas emissions released every year from airplanes and the shipping sector and multiply it by four. That roughly equals the total emissions released, every year, by tropical forests being cut down. We cannot meet climate goals without […]

This blog argues that while permanent removals are essential, Paris-aligned mitigation requires massive carbon removals now, which only nature can deliver.

This article is adapted from a forthcoming discussion paper, “Habitat Banks: Expanding a Proven Tool to Protect Threatened Ecosystems.” Global-record levels of investment in infrastructure are, ironically, posing a massive threat to our planet’s infrastructure.  By that we mean natural infrastructure: the natural areas and processes that filter our water, minimize flooding, absorb air pollution, […]

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced today that it has approved three methodologies for issuing high integrity carbon credits for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD+):   (ART) The REDD+ Environmental Excellence Standard (TREES) v2.0, TREES Crediting Level   (VCS) VM0048 Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation […]