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The impending EU Deforestation Regulation is set to have a significant impact on the Cambodian and Southeast Asian rubber export industry when they come into effect. FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To expressed that compliance issues would also affect Vietnam, a major importer of Cambodian rubber.

On November 3, Vietnam’s Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Le Minh Hoan, chaired a conference on deploying the action plan to adapt to the European Union Regulation on Deforestation-free Products. According to FPTF Managing Director Phuc Xuan To, Vietnam will be in a disadvantageous position if the EU takes the product with the highest […]

El Encuentro Nacional “Perú Merese”, de Mecanismos de Retribución por Servicios Ecosistémicos, que se realizó en la ciudad de Arequipa, superó todas las expectativas al impulsar los proyectos Merese hídricos para conservar y recuperar las fuentes naturales de agua que abastecen a las ciudades. El evento fue organizado por Sedapar y el Proyecto Infraestructura Natural […]

New research from Ecosystem Marketplace, a Forest Trends program, has found that companies engaging with the voluntary carbon market were in fact mostly working hard to cut emissions in their own operations.

A recent deluge of media criticism paints credit-buyers as lazy, even nefarious. A comprehensive new study from Ecosystem Marketplace presents evidence that those broad-brush assumptions are wrong. It finds that most companies that participate in the VCM are climate leaders, not laggards.

Companies buying carbon credits are far more likely to be taking robust, ambitious and accountable action to decarbonize their business and supply chains, according to new EM research, which argues hits back at accusations that the voluntary carbon market is little more than a “greenwashing” exercise.

Un nuevo estudio publicado por el Ecosystem Marketplace de Forest Trends revela que las empresas que participan en mercados voluntarios de carbono (VCM) están tomando medidas significativas hacia la acción climática. Estas empresas superan a sus contrapartes que no compran créditos de carbono en diversas medidas de acción climática, responsabilidad y ambición.

Analysis by EM reveals that companies purchasing carbon credits are eight times more likely to be decarbonizing year on year, and three times more likely to have supplier engagement strategies.

A new study by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace – an initiative of non-profit organization Forest Trends – suggests that companies that participate in voluntary carbon markets are also leaders in several measures of robust climate action, accountability, and ambition and do better according to those criteria that firms that do not buy carbon credits.

Businesses engaged in voluntary carbon markets are already addressing climate change in their direct operations and throughout their value chains, and thus reducing emissions more quickly than peers, according to the report released by Ecosystem Marketplace on Tuesday.