Despite the cold start here in D.C., January is blooming with carbon news. Quebec and California started off the year by officially linking markets, while a sustainable agriculture project in Kenya became the first to verify credits from carbon sequestration in soils under VCS in mid-January. These new developments only enhance 2013’s top stories, also featured in this Special 2014 New Year Edition.
We take a look back at the forest carbon highlights in 2013, a year of supply-side success and demand-side growing pains. In this newsletter, our expert readers offer their predictions for the New Year, including continued momentum on landscape approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the prominence of forestry in the upcoming international climate negotiations in Lima.
Less than 5% of all companies have acted on the impact that landscape-level water disruptions can have on their bottom line. The few companies that have, however, are developing solutions that can be used to head off water shortages around the world. A new Ecosystem Marketplace report examines what works, what doesn’t, and why.
Al dar un vistazo hacia el 2013 en el tema de agua, nuestro sitio hermano, el Ecosystem Marketplace encuentra que el año estuvo marcado por eventos como la reunión Katoomba en Beijing y el lanzamiento del Reporte sobre Inversiones hídricas. Los programas de inversión en cuencas de agua tuvieron un aumento al este de África […]
2013 saw global agreement on rules for implementing REDD projects under the UNFCCC and an unprecedented expansion of projects that harness private funding for forest conservation – but many of those private initiatives could backslide if buyers don’t step up to purchase credits, and fast. Here’s a look at our coverage from the past year.
As Ecosystem Marketplace looks back over water in 2013, it finds the year was marked by events like the Katoomba meeting in Beijing and the watershed payments report launch. Watershed investment programs were on the rise in East Africa where participants include flower-growers along Kenya’s Lake Naivasha and Tanga, Tanzania’s water utility.
The year is winding down and the top stories of 2013 in biodiversity and wetlands may be the biggest headlines of 2014 as many of them remain unresolved. The lawsuits in Louisiana over their coastal wetlands are ongoing as is the decision over how best to conserve the dwindling prairie chicken. Here’s a look back.
Major corporations continue to support voluntary carbon offset projects – especially those with good stories behind them – and 2013 ended with the encouraging news that dozens of companies are establishing an internal carbon price for use in their business planning. But will that be enough to prevent the current projects from backsliding?
Just scant weeks after COP19 in Warsaw, the World Bank’s FCPF announced a new methodological framework for its Carbon Fund. The framework unshackles nearly $390 million already committed to these programs. It also supports a jurisdictional/subnational approach that can be scaled up to the national level, an approach proven popular among funders and donor nations.
Establishing an internal carbon price is becoming standard operating practice, with 29 of the top global corporations disclosing a price on carbon pollution in the latest reports to the CDP. If more companies actually want to implement an internal carbon fee, technology giant Microsoft has some sound advice on exactly how to do it.