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The global aviation regulator’s decision to toughen a new carbon market for airlines will cut supply of emission credits to offset greenhouse gases as the coronavirus slams ticket sales.

The coronavirus outbreak has sent the aviation industry reeling from one of its biggest economic shocks in recent years. But the virus is also putting the finger on one of the industry’s most difficult challenges: curbing the sector’s increasing greenhouse gas emissions from a baseline of 2019 and 2020.

Ecosystem Marketplace Forecasts Ample Supply of CORSIA Carbon Credits If ICAO Council Limits Eligibility to Post-2016 Offsets Study underscores risk of flooding airline carbon market if ICAO reboots old offsets March 10, 2020 | FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The international aviation sector is committed to delivering carbon neutral growth for flights between countries between 2021-2035. Airlines […]

Ten Takeaways for Facilitating Global Forest Restoration at-Scale

As pressure steadily rachets up on companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, addressing forest risk in supply chains is proving a hard nut to crack.

It is before dawn when we pass the last checkpoint perched above the Salween River, along the border between Thailand and Myanmar. As we wind north through a sparse woodland up an unpaved track, the first signs of daylight begin to appear. It is the end of the dry season, and most of the trees […]

As an outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has raged in its northern neighbor China over the past several weeks, Vietnam has been impacted in some perhaps unexpected ways.

Trey Hill’s family has been working the land around Rock Hall, Maryland, since the early 1900s. Their company, Harborview Farms, harvests corn, wheat and soy from thousands of acres. But something is different this year. The Hill family has a new crop: sequestered carbon, which they sell to individuals and companies across the United States.

The world is rallying around planting trees for climate action. Even President Donald Trump is on board, announcing at the World Economic Forum that the United States would join the One Trillion Trees Initiative.

  La pasantía, organizada por Forest Trends y EcoDecisión, permitió conocer el trabajo en infraestructura natural realizada por el Fondo para la Protección del Agua (FONAG) de Quito y la Empresa Pública Metropolitana de Agua y Saneamiento EPMAPS en temas de restauración de páramos, recuperación de humedales y monitoreo hidrológico. Participaron un grupo de funcionarios […]