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Eucalyptus for Brazil’s steelmaking dries out communities in Minas Gerais

Daniel Camargos, Emmanuelle Picaud, Simone Fant 29 Apr 2025
Melquiades, a Brazil nut producer in the Amazon rainforest. Image by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Forest communities craft recommendations for better ART TREES carbon credit standard

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Feb 2025

Mineral exploitation overshadows green diplomacy in Congo’s Sangha region

Elodie Toto 30 Jan 2025
Mikkel Larsen

Carbon exchange leader and sustainability advocate Mikkel Larsen dies at 50

Rhett Ayers Butler 27 Jan 2025

Rainforest Outlook 2025: Storylines to watch as the year unfolds

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2024

The state of carbon markets in 2024

John Cannon 23 Dec 2024

Nepal’s forest-protecting communities may miss out on World Bank carbon funds

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Dec 2024
Timber illegally extracted from the Amazon by Ricardo Stoppe's group was sold to the USA and Europe.

Illegal timber from Amazon carbon credit projects reached Europe, U.S.

Fernanda Wenzel 16 Dec 2024

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024
Blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Prosecutors urge suspension of Amazon carbon projects, citing Mongabay investigation

Fernanda Wenzel 22 Nov 2024
A female mountain gorilla carrying her baby on her back.

Biodiversity credit approaches multiply as concerns cloud confidence

John Cannon 19 Nov 2024

Activists fear supercharged ‘business as usual’ under Indonesia’s new president

Hans Nicholas Jong 15 Nov 2024
Mangroves in Thailand

Thailand’s budding mangrove restoration plans spark both hope and concern

Carolyn Cowan 17 Oct 2024

‘World’s largest’ carbon credit deal in the Amazon faces bumpy road ahead

Carla Ruas 9 Oct 2024
Indigenous Masai women at a community leadership meeting in Kenya. Photo by Edna Kaptoyo, Community Conservation Resilience Initiative, 2018

Indigenous communities can decide for themselves on carbon market risks (commentary)

Kanyinke Sena / Lemada (Bariki) Lesamana Lelya / Aaron Marr Page 27 Sep 2024
Significant deforestation was linked to the Lower Russei Chrum dam, which has been operational in Koh Kong province since 2015. Image by Gerald Flynn / Mongabay.

Hydropower dams further undermine REDD+ efforts in Cambodia

Gerald Flynn & Vutha Srey 28 Jun 2024

Verra suspends carbon credit projects following police raid in Brazil

Fernanda Wenzel 11 Jun 2024

Top brands buy Amazon carbon credits from suspected timber laundering scam

Fernanda Wenzel 21 May 2024
A jaguar

Are biodiversity credits just another business-as-usual finance scheme?

Shreya Dasgupta 19 Mar 2024
Indigenous women of Guatemala’s Polochic Valley

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

John Cannon 29 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
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
People walking through a forest.

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

Alexandra Benjamin 17 Nov 2023
Woman carrying a solar pannel near Yangambi, DRC.

Can carbon markets solve Africa’s climate finance woes?

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Nov 2023

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

Hans Nicholas Jong 26 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
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

Photos: Fiji’s first Indigenous-owned carbon credit project

Monica Evans 12 Sep 2023

Brazil cap-and-trade carbon framework in sight, but agriculture gets a pass

Sarah Brown 6 Sep 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023

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