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A teacher and farmer in Lukolela, DRC.

The future of forest carbon credits and voluntary markets

John Cannon 16 Jan 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Leveraging the hypothetical: The uncertain world of carbon credit calculations

John Cannon 12 Jan 2024
Women making skirts from grass in Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea.

‘Cowboys’ and intermediaries thrive in Wild West of the carbon market

John Cannon 9 Jan 2024
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

How will we know when local communities benefit from carbon offset schemes? (commentary)

Beth Allgood, John Waugh, Craig Talmage, Laura Musikanski, Dehara Weeraman 5 Jan 2024
Aellow-cheeked crested gibbon

Do carbon credits really help communities that keep forests standing?

John Cannon 5 Jan 2024

False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Gloria Pallares 4 Jan 2024
A fisher casts a net in Malaysia.

Forest carbon credits and the voluntary market: A solution or a distraction?

John Cannon 3 Jan 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 Dec 2023

Company sells Indigenous land in Amazonas as NFTs without community’s knowledge

Fábio Bispo 26 Dec 2023

Colombian companies defy laws, push Amazon carbon projects in Indigenous lands

Fábio Bispo 22 Dec 2023
An aerial view over the Central Cardamoms National Park, one of several protected areas that constitute the Cardamom Mountains, an evergreen forest situated on the Thai-Cambodia border. In November 2023, the Cambodian government approved the construction of two new hydropower dams in the protected forest. Credit: Andy Ball/Mongabay.

New dams in Cambodia pit ‘green’ hydropower against REDD+ project

Gerald Flynn 20 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)

Emiel de Lange, Sushil Raj, Yun Mane 1 Dec 2023
Clouds reflected in a lake in the Amazon Rainforest.

At COP28 & beyond, fair carbon markets must be part of the climate finance solution (commentary)

Charles Bedford, John Edward Myers 30 Nov 2023
A REDD+-supported nursery at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Carbon credit certifier Verra updates accounting method amid growing criticism

John Cannon 28 Nov 2023
Sitio Paho, Pala’wan Indigenous leader Mami Lapasan, carrying a heavy load of almaciga resin.

How Indigenous peoples and local communities can make the voluntary carbon market work for them (commentary)

Francisco Souza, Jennifer Tauli Corpuz, Kanyinke Sena, Levi Sucre Romero 27 Nov 2023
A river in the Amazon rainforest interior of Suriname. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler.

U.N. carbon trading scheme holds promise and peril for tropical forests

Sarah Sax 23 Nov 2023
Reserva Narupa in Ecuador. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Jurisdictional REDD+ ready to fund forest-positive, socially-inclusive development in the Amazon and beyond (commentary)

Daniel Nepstad 20 Nov 2023
People walking through a forest.

Control of Africa’s forests must not be sold to carbon offset companies (commentary)

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023
Mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata).

Carbon counting without the guesswork: Q&A with FCL proponent Jerry Toth

John Cannon 17 Nov 2023

Shell affiliate accused of violating Indigenous rights in carbon credit contracts

Fábio Bispo 14 Nov 2023
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023
A pair of orphaned orangutans in Sabah.

Critical questions remain as carbon credit deal in Sabah presses forward

John Cannon 1 Nov 2023

For 1st time, Indonesia government recognizes ancestral forests in Aceh — but only some

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 Oct 2023

New Paraguay law aims to improve carbon credit market

Maxwell Radwin 20 Oct 2023
The Deekali Project: Women washing plastic waste to prepare for the grinding machine at a local recycling facility in Senegal.

As companies buy ‘plastic credits,’ are they reducing waste or greenwashing?

Charles Pekow 19 Oct 2023
Rainbow over rainforest in Sumatra. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Indonesia opens carbon trading market to both skepticism and hope

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Oct 2023
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Beyond ‘no,’ more positive visions for conservation need communication (commentary)

Rachael Garrett 12 Oct 2023
Smoke from a factory chimney.

How nonprofit journalism revealed many problems with the UN’s climate neutrality claims

Mike DiGirolamo 10 Oct 2023
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023
Laborers at Land Rover's wind energy project purposed for carbon finance in India.

Revealed: Why the UN is not climate neutral

Jacob Goldberg, Leopold Salzenstein, Sarah Brown, Shaz Syed 13 Sep 2023
Jerry Lotawa.

‘The forest is so much more than money’: Q&A with Fijian carbon project ranger Jerry Lotawa

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

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