Offsets

A UK Collective Offsetting Fund would enable firms to pool investment in high-integrity rewilding, retrofitting and direct air capture projects at home, argues BusinessLDN's Ioanna Mytilinaiou

Researchers call for a new approach to corporate climate standards to better capture the impact of corporate lobbying, investment, and product development activity

Climeworks' flagship project the subject of BeZero carbon's first ever public rating of a Direct Air Capture with Carbon Storage project

Research by risk management firm Gallagher finds strong corporate appetite for carbon credits, despite risks associated with offsetting market

International Tree Foundation urges standards body to promote alternatives to carbon offsets that it argues would better support the transition to a net zero and nature positive economy

Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market rejects eight assessment methodologies for renewable energy carbon credit projects over 'additionality' concerns

Voluntary carbon market institutions must work hard to dispel uncertainty and build transparency and trust in the system, writes the Climate Change Advisory Group's Sir David King

Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative preps consultation over 'guardrails' and guidelines for the use of offsets to tackle companies Scope 3 emissions

Brewing giant claims voluntary carbon market has been flooded with poor quality schemes that have meant the price of credits from credible projects have shot up to 'astronomical' levels

Voluntary carbon market platform Patch warns against plan to wait to finalise rulebook for delivering net zero corporate value chains until 2025