Forest owners in Mississippi can earn revenue by delaying timber harvests to store more carbon in trees for climate benefits.

Lynn Strongin Dodds looks at the evolution of the carbon markets and the role they hope to play in meeting the Paris Agreement targets. Carbon markets are not new, but they have gained momentum as the ...

Enel powered the Winter Olympics with “100% low-carbon electricity,” but relied partly on carbon credits. Carbon offsets ...

E-commerce giant Amazon (AMZN) is buying carbon offset credits that will be applied to the rainforest in South America’s Amazon jungle. According to a report on CNBC, Amazon is purchasing the carbon ...

The Land Matrix, a collaboration between the International Land Coalition and several universities, just published a new report on land deals for carbon offsets. Carbon offsets are “credits” sold to ...

The Biden administration is unveiling a framework for using carbon offsets to drive climate progress, with principles that it says are meant to help ensure the trading regimes deliver real emissions ...

The market for carbon credits is facing a renewed wave of opposition as climate activists deliver a fresh warning to companies and governments not to use such financial instruments to offset their ...

Duke recently achieved carbon neutrality — but this doesn’t mean the University’s emissions equal zero. In reality, this historic achievement was made possible by both emissions reductions and the ...

After more than three decades on Wall Street — first at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and then at Bank of America Corp. — Tom Montag thought he’d seen most forms of financial wizardry. Then Hank Paulson ...

Replacing windows and adding a heat pump in place of a furnace can save energy, reducing emissions. Tristan Spinski for The Washington Post via Getty Images Under pressure from customers and investors ...

Academics at the University of Oxford and the University of Pennsylvania have conducted the most comprehensive review of evidence on the effectiveness on carbon offsetting to date and concluded the ...

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