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The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has emerged as a crucial tool, empowering companies to fund essential carbon projects, yet given the evolving landscape and absence of standardized guidance, the VCM is often difficult to navigate. Read More

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S&P Global Commodity Insights takes a deep dive into the many macro- and micro-level factors that are likely to impact the global chemicals markets in the first half of 2024. While the challenges of overcapacity and low demand still linger for some chemicals, market participants are keeping a close eye on developments in China, where the property sector has been struggling and exports of many chemicals have soared in recent years. Read More

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The Criteria for High-Quality Carbon Dioxide Removal provides a set of science-based benchmarks for the development of carbon dioxide removal projects that can be used by stakeholders across the industry to drive just, effective climate action at scale. Developed through a collaboration between Microsoft and Carbon Direct, the 2023 edition of the Criteria incorporates both the latest science and equity considerations to advance the common definitions for high-quality carbon dioxide removal solutions and expand on the practical applications of environmental justice. Read More

Increasing frameworks and guidance on climate action claims have created a confusing range of options which can take time to understand and navigate.    Climate Impact Partners’ expert team has reviewed all the requirements and launched The Climate Action Protocol, enabling companies to make confident climate claims, based on internal reductions and high-quality carbon credits.    Read More

ENGIE Impact’s 2024 Net Zero Report reveals five core roadblocks preventing organizations from making headway with their decarbonization plans. The report identifies common roadblocks to decarbonization and explores some troubling findings, including the tendency for many organizations to approach decarbonization as a limited, narrow initiative instead of the transformational, whole-business approach it needs to be. Read More

Don’t roll the dice with your company’s sustainability program. This white paper from Woodard & Curran, based on a roundtable session at GreenBiz 23, breaks down the “how” of operationalizing sustainability.  Read More

Hydrogen blending is a practical and cost-effective way to introduce hydrogen into the energy system and pave the way for a low-carbon future. But how can we make it happen? What are the technical, regulatory, and social challenges that need to be addressed? And what are the best practices and lessons learned from existing hydrogen blending projects around North America? Read More

Limiting global warming to 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels requires significant carbon reductions and 6 to 10 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide removal per year by 2050. The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is a key mechanism to scale those solutions. The 2023 edition of the State of the Voluntary Carbon Market report from Carbon Direct provides carbon credit buyers, carbon project developers, and policymakers with an analysis of key trends and market developments. Read More

As the business sector gains a more sophisticated level of understanding around climate change, there has been an increased recognition that sustainability efforts must extend beyond a company’s direct operations. “Going to where the emissions are” is key to driving sustainability impact and meeting stakeholder expectations, producing tangible benefits for your business. Read More

The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is expected to catalyze $3 trillion of investment in the US over the next 10 years (according to Goldman Sachs), principally through its use of clean energy tax credits, many of which are transferable for the first time. This launched a new market, which rapidly took shape in the second half of 2023, as new tax credit buyers, sellers, and intermediaries transacted billions of dollars of credits. Read More