The Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF) and Jurisdictional REDD+ (JREDD+) can work hand-in-hand to conserve tropical forests, reduce GHG emissions, and help close more than half of the annual financing gap needed to conserve tropical forests and reduce their loss, according to new analysis. The paper – by André Aquino, head of the Special Advisory […]

The voluntary carbon market is at an impasse. Not the one you think. Corporate buyers want credits representing real, permanent emissions reductions or removals. They want third-party verification, robust monitoring, clear additionality. Bullet-proof accounting. The impasse is not that carbon project developers are unable to do these things. The challenge is delivering all of this […]

For generations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities have safeguarded the world’s forests—sustaining biodiversity, storing carbon, and carrying cultural knowledge that benefits all of humanity. They manage more than 50% of the world’s land and over one-third of intact forests, yet they historically have received less than 1% of global climate finance directly. This injustice has […]

Forest guardians around the world now have a new digital hub to find resources. The Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs) Resources Center—available at www.iplcresourcescenter.org—has officially launched, providing a dynamic and multilingual platform designed to equip IPLCs to understand, shape, and access climate and conservation finance. As the urgency to act on climate change increases, […]

The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is undergoing a pivotal shift toward higher integrity, exemplified by the rollout of the Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) from the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM). For project developers working in nature-based solutions (NbS), aligning with CCP-approved methodologies offers both promise and complexity. During our recent Ecosystem Marketplace […]

In the 2025 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market report, Ecosystem Marketplace (EM) found that the market is undergoing a major supply-side reboot, in response to increasingly sophisticated demand and shifts toward quality. EM hosted this follow-up webinar to explore and better understand how project developers and the supply side of the market are navigating […]

Debates over durability have fractured the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) community into opposing “nature-based” and “tech-based” CDR camps, each vying for policy recognition and financial support for their preferred approaches. With these tensions likely to flare up again in the consultations around the non-permanence standard guiding Article 6.4 projects under the Paris Agreement, it’s worth […]