Conservation Finance Network

You've got to go where the science leads you. This May 19 update encapsulates research warning that climate perturbations may be rendering trees less fit to suck up carbon at the rate the carbon market has assumed.

This May 13 story shows funding flows from cap-and-trade revenue shifting by the billion to prevent and remediate wildfires in California forests.

On May 10, Axios reported a deal between Visa and Sustainable Carbon on an ambitious platform called Carbonplace.

Rachel Kyte, who helped hammer out the Paris agreement, talks through techniques to deliver robust carbon markets before (or instead of waiting until) governments make the rules. The interview requires a 7-day free trial.

This May 4 study summary attests that more industrial players need more serious forest-carbon commitments to make forests' ecosystem activities meaningful in carbon math.

This All Things Considered story from April 28 situates carbon removal in the forefront of many popular science-aligned strategies for climate survival.

This April 29 story from a partnership between Bloomberg and an Indian news provider looks at global tightening of standards for carbon-offset claims.

This April 22 executive order from President Biden instructs agencies to inventory old-growth forests in the next year and pursue a coordinated strategy for managing and replenishing them.

So five gargantuan companies are deploying $925 million for what they say are verifiable carbon-credit projects. Here's the April 13 take in GreenBiz on a new venture from Alphabet, Meta, McKinsey, Shopify and Stripe.

A March 24 radio report summarizes a pending plan for forest management that some say vests too much financial clout in the traditional timber business.