A new global climate-change regime is years away, but governments around the world are leveraging voluntary tools developed by the private sector to incubate climate-change solutions. A new...
The third annual review from the Forest Footprint Disclosure Project finds that many more big companies are starting to measure and report their forest-related impacts and risks, but Big Oil as an...
The country's Sierra Gorda Biosphere Reserve was an early mover on carbon offsets, but lacked the certfication backing that would give it long-term credibility -- until now. Here's what Mexico's......
Wildfires in the U.S. are growing larger and more severe, and preventative measures aren't cheap. Can carbon money come to the rescue?...
Deforestation and outdated farming methods combined generate more than 30 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, which is why financing mechanisms aimed at tackling both are hot topics as UN......
Can carbon save cocoa? That, some say, is the million-dollar question -- or, more accurately, the US$2.2 billion question, since industry insiders estimate that's the value of carbon stored in......
Up to 15 percent of all greenhouse gasses come from farmers churning up soil. The International Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change aims to change that by promoting......
Experts say it will cost $300 billion per year by 2020 to stop biodiversity loss, but the Global Canopy says that we are now only delivering between $36 billion and $38 billion per year....
The Nature Conservancy and Coca-Cola Company are experimenting with a new method of water footprinting that could do for water use what the carbon market has done for emissions: create a......
Like many cities around the world, Denver gets its drinking water from rivers and reservoirs, which in turn get their water from forests. Many of those forests, however, are in trouble, putting......
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, also known as REDD, could be the first sector-based offset crediting program implemented as part of California's sweeping climate change law......
While there are a number of projects underway, payments for ecosystem services (PES) in the Southeast Asia region primarily occurs on an ad hoc basis through small-scale pilot projects. NGO......
Companies that rescue and restore forests to earn money by capturing carbon in trees likely expanded their operations in 2009, despite the global recession and regulatory uncertainty, capping......
Broad but not deep, Australia's new mandatory cap-and-trade regime limits the emissions of industries responsible for 75% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Those limits, however, are weak compared......
The cap-and-trade legislation currently working its way through the US Senate aims to entice companies into cutting their greenhouse gas emissions before the law says they have to by offering......
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's new Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets (OESM) is just getting off the ground, but once under way it should lead to better coordination not only among......
Deforestation accounts for 20 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions –- a fact not lost on drafters of the Waxman-Markey Bill, which has passed through committee and now goes before the United......
The Chesapeake Fund was launched earlier this year to jump-start the reduction of one million pounds of nitrogen annually in "hotspots" around the Chesapeake Bay watershed by channeling......
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