Carbon offset market

Three primers for buying carbon offsets

Offsets

Three primers for buying carbon offsets

As interest and scrutiny involving the use of carbon credits toward net zero goals intensifies, resources from Shopify, Frontier Climate, and Ecosystem Marketplace have some answers for corporate buyers

clock 02 December 2022 • 4 min read
Patch raises $55m to expand carbon credit market tech

Investment

Patch raises $55m to expand carbon credit market tech

Latest series B funding led by Energize Ventures brings total investment to $80m

clock 16 September 2022 • 2 min read
Carbonplace: UBS, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas join CO2 offset trading platform

Carbon Trading

Carbonplace: UBS, Standard Chartered, and BNP Paribas join CO2 offset trading platform

Seven multinational banks join drive to develop platform they claim will help to facilitate trade of high integrity carbon credits

clock 15 February 2022 • 3 min read
'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility?

Offsets

'Indispensible': Can the carbon offset market bolster its credibility?

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered

clock 28 September 2021 • 11 min read
Mark Carney-led offset market taskforce hands over reins to new governance body

Carbon Trading

Mark Carney-led offset market taskforce hands over reins to new governance body

The Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets announces new independent governance body to oversee development of carbon offset credit principles

clock 21 September 2021 • 5 min read
'A prime example of doublethink': How surging demand for land-based CO2 offsets could threaten global food security

Offsets

'A prime example of doublethink': How surging demand for land-based CO2 offsets could threaten global food security

Oxfam warns many net zero goals rely too heavily on forestation to offset carbon emissions, providing a potential threat to agricultural land

clock 03 August 2021 • 7 min read

Offsets

'Trade with confidence' or 'get-out-of-jail'? Carney-led Taskforce plots legal standards for 'unified' carbon offset market

Carney-led carbon market Taskforce has sets out plans to establish legal standards and governance body to bolster integrity of CO2 offsets, but environmental campaigners remain unconvinced

clock 08 July 2021 • 5 min read

Carbon Trading

Research: Carbon offset prices set for ten-fold increase by 2030

Current carbon credit prices are 'unsustainably low' but could surge to $50 per tonne of CO2 by the end of decade as corporate demand surges, new research indicates

clock 07 June 2021 • 4 min read

Politics

Green recovery or bust? Six green things we learnt from the Budget (and a lot of things we didn't)

The Chancellor Rishi Sunak served up a host of green infrastructure and financial measures, but has kicked many key issues down the road

clock 04 March 2021 • 12 min read

Offsets

One year on: Microsoft updates on carbon removal ambitions

New investment in direct air capture firm Climeworks just one milestone since landmark pledge to tackle tech giant's historic emissions

clock 29 January 2021 • 4 min read