Carbon Policy

This rule that was designed to prevent you from counting carbon twice has effectively become a rule in which no carbon is counted at all.

Emily Ury uses satellite images to see the devastating loss of forests across the United States.

Research suggests that a border carbon tax is likely important only for industries such as steel, textiles, mining, cement and chemicals that are carbon-intensive, large contributors to the economy and exposed to international trade.

Organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Business Roundtable, American Petroleum Institute and others are evolving their public positions on carbon pricing. 

The rules governing the voluntary carbon market remain inconsistent, and their enforcement is often lax. The authors make the case for a U.S. federal regulatory commission, akin to the SEC.

Our demands on nature far exceed its capacity to supply them, putting biodiversity under huge pressure and society at "extreme risk."

These examples show tried-and-tested alternatives that are ready to scale up with the support of climate finance.

Net-zero pledges place the emphasis on numbers when the focus should be on the quality of credits.

With wildfires increasingly in the news, a large community of scientists are working to better understand wildfire emissions and how they change as they blow into downwind communities.

The oil and gas giant ramps up its investment in the largest carbon offset developer in the U.S., as it increases focus on natural climate solutions in support of its net-zero targets.