Patrick Maguire
Managing DirectorUS Forest Service Project
Patrick is the Managing Director of Forest Trends’ US Forest Service Project. He was previously Senior Program Manager of Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace and Supply Change Initiative which he joined in May 2019, and before that was Program Manager of Forest Trends’ Business and Biodiversity Offset Program (BBOP) from 2007 to 2018. Patrick has twenty years of diverse international conservation and development experience including managing remote teams and multi-stakeholder coalitions for environmental NGOs, the private sector and government. Previous work includes managing community forestry-based enterprises in Nepal for the World Wildlife Fund; helping to establish the Conservation Finance Alliance and overseeing the development of a guide on innovative conservation financing while at The Nature Conservancy; and serving as a consultant to USAID’s Biodiversity and Forestry Team with Chemonics Inc
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2021
Installment 1: Market in Motion
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, Kim Myers, Christopher Daley, and Katherine Lin View PublicationThis first installment of EM’s flagship State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets (SOVCM) 2021 report offers insights into key trends and developments related to international voluntary carbon credits (also referred to as carbon offsets), based upon aggregated and anonymized EM Global Carbon Survey Respondent-reported data and interviews.
A Green Growth Spurt
State of Forest Carbon Finance 2021
By Patrick Maguire, Stephen Donofrio, William Merry, Kim Myers, Laura Weatherer, Jordan Wildish, and Steve Zwick View PublicationIt’s been 30 years since Applied Energy Services teamed up with the World Resources Institute and the humanitarian aid organization CARE to pilot the first known use of carbon finance to slow climate change by saving forests. That project, dubbed “Mi Bosque” (“My Forest”), reversed deforestation by helping Guatemalan farmers implement agroforestry practices that increased […]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020: The Only Constant is Change
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, Steve Zwick, William Merry, Jordan Wildish, and Kim MyersBuilding upon the first installment of the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020, this second installment presents additional Ecosystem Marketplace data and analysis in light of recent recommendations from the Institute of International Finance’s Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets to provide insights into: How voluntary carbon offset market participants price both core carbon […]
State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020: Voluntary Carbon and the Post-Pandemic Recovery
A Special Climate Week NYC 2020 Installment of Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020 Report
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, Steve Zwick, and William Merry View PublicationIn this special Climate Week NYC installment of the State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020, we discuss key insights and findings garnered from Forest Trends’ annual 2020 Ecosystem Marketplace Carbon Survey cycle. Key Findings from this installment: Corporate carbon-neutral pledges fueled a record transaction volume of at least 104 MtCO2e in 2019, which is an[…]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020
Voluntary Carbon and the Post-Pandemic Recovery
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, Steve Zwick, and William Merry View PublicationThis Insights Brief is the first installment in the State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2020 series of analyses, to be published over several months in late 2020. In this installment, we discuss key insights and findings garnered from Forest Trends’ annual 2020 Ecosystem Marketplace Carbon Survey cycle. Every year since 2006, Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace […]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019: Market Dynamics
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, William Merry, and Steve Zwick View PublicationWe are pleased to present the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019, which includes data collected for calendar years 2017 and 2018. This report presents insights compiled through off-the-record interviews by Ecosystem Marketplace’s carbon team with a diverse set of market participants, examining voluntary carbon markets dynamics in 2019. What emerged in these interviews […]
State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019: Market Direction
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, William Merry, and Steve Zwick View PublicationWe are pleased to present the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019, which includes data collected for calendar years 2017 and 2018. This report presents insights compiled through off-the-record interviews by Ecosystem Marketplace’s carbon team with a diverse set of market participants, examining voluntary carbon markets’ direction in 2020 and beyond. If there’s one […]
State of Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019: Market Overview
By Stephen Donofrio, Patrick Maguire, William Merry, and Steve Zwick View PublicationWe are pleased to present the State of the Voluntary Carbon Markets 2019, which includes data collected for calendar years 2017 and 2018. Also included are insights compiled through interviews with a diverse set of market participants covering trends through late 2019. This voluntary carbon markets overview provides a brief timeline of major milestones in […]