Jim Giles
Jim Giles is Vice President, Editor-at-Large at Trellis Group. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Economist, Guardian, Nature and other publications. He was the co-founder of Matter, an award-winning investigative publication that was acquired by Medium in 2013. In 2017, he was a graduate of the Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program at Columbia University. He’s also worked as a strategic consultant for several high-impact organizations, including the European Climate Foundation and the Wellcome Trust.
Leading carbon credit registries expand into supply-chain decarbonization
The new options should make it easier for companies to reduce Scope 3 emissions. Read More
How to navigate all those certifications in the voluntary carbon market
An unregulated field has become a crowded one. Read More
Exxon-backed Carbon Measures signs up climate nonprofits as advisors
Advisors from Resources for the Future and Microsoft are now working with Carbon Measures. Read More
Greenhouse Gas Protocol mulls dramatic expansion of emissions accounting
The protocol’s proposal builds on new guidelines, released this week, for how companies can claim benefits for investments in supply-chain decarbonization. Read More
The math behind Microsoft’s plan to pause carbon removal purchases
Has the tech giant amassed enough credits to hit its 2030 carbon-neutral goal? The answer depends on data center emissions. Read More
How Thrive Market is helping 1,000+ brands to decarbonize
The online retailer wants small businesses to get started on emissions targets — even if they don’t employ a dedicated sustainability professional. Read More
Cookstoves with SIM cards are reviving a contested carbon credit
Improved methodologies and monitoring technologies are helping cookstove projects recover from a series of damaging findings. Read More
Why General Motors lobbied against its own EV goals
Trump’s gutting of pro-EV regulations was backed by several large automakers. Here’s how other companies can learn from those experiences. Read More
Google, McKinsey and Meta back project to reforest degraded Appalachian lands
The deal is the second facilitated by the Symbiosis Coalition, a buyers’ group targeting 20 million tons of nature-based removal credits. Read More
Corporate demand is driving a boom in farmland carbon credits
Microsoft and Walmart are among the companies buying offsets and insets from a growing cadre of project developers. Read More
