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This May 8 story, spotlighting an official pledge to sustain herd sizes and farm operations, captures Ireland's tension as the government races to meet climate goals by 2030.

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 January, Environmental Defense Fund and Farmers Business Network launched the pilot Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund (RAFF). Enrolled farmers who meet soil health and nitrogen efficiency standards will access a 0.5% discount on a one-year credit line. This product, years in the making, aims to update farm financing.

This April 21 item looks over a project that sells farmed kelp...and an executive who wants to propagate ocean farming into a viable piece of the carbon-credit marketplace.

This April 19 TV story from a Baltimore affiliate elucidates some water-management practice in a state where conservation finance now flows through public policy.

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.

This April 15 feature spotlights the premise, promise, and peculiarities of the investor-farmer.

This April 4 news item catches us up on (still-in-draft) efforts to create a state conservation bank in South Carolina.

This April 1 report scrutinizes a low price amid low supply for carbon removal projects, which analysts ascribe to broad preference for more familiar carbon-offset strategies.

Conservation Finance Network

Did You Hear What They Herd?

Worth Reading About Worth: Kyte Addresses Voluntary Markets

Still Some Whacking to Do

The Regenerative Agriculture Finance Fund's Climate-Smart Rebate

Kelp-able of More

Take a Chesapeake at This

Meta and Partners Push Nearly $1 Billion Into Offsets

An LP Goes For the Groove

Steering Into the Conservation Bank?

You Can Only Remove What's Already There