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A Ministry of Environment ranger on patrol in the Cardamom Mountains. Image by Andyb3947 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Cambodian carbon credit project hit by rights abuse claims is reinstated

Gerald Flynn 11 Sep 2024

In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 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
Rescue efforts in the aftermath of the GLOF event in Sikkim on October 4. Photo by Press Information Bureau, Government of India.

Multilateral development banks must prioritize clean & community-led energy projects (commentary)

Alessandro Ramazzotti/Vaishnavi Varadarajan/Anggita Indari 1 May 2024
Eucalyptus trees at the Burapha Agro-Forestry plantation near Xathany District, Laos, 2023. Image courtesy of Melissa Lo.

Land tenure lesson from Laos for forest carbon projects (commentary)

Melissa Lo / Simran Kaur / Oluwole Soyinka / Sheng Huan Tang / Song Fu 2 Apr 2024
Samburu pastoralists walking with their herd.

How will we know when local communities benefit from carbon offset schemes? (commentary)

Beth Allgood/John Waugh/Craig A. Talmage/Laura Musikanski/Dehara Weeraman 5 Jan 2024

False claims of U.N. backing see Indigenous groups cede forest rights for sketchy finance

Gloria Pallares 4 Jan 2024
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Keo Seima forest. Image by user Pygathrix nigripes via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Indigenous land rights are key to conservation in Cambodia (commentary)

Emiel de Lange, Sushil Raj, Yun Mane 1 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
A REDD+-supported nursery at Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia. Image by John Cannon/Mongabay.

Carbon credit certifier Verra updates accounting method amid growing criticism

John Cannon 28 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
A kipunji.

World owes it to Tanzania to keep Eastern Arc forests standing, study shows

Ryan Truscott 6 Oct 2023
A biodiverse island in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

For the oceans, global community must fund Sustainable Development Goal 14 (commentary)

Eric Schwaab 18 Sep 2023
The Pataxó territory overlaps with Monte Pascoal National Park in the Brazilian state of Bahia. Image courtesy of André Olmos.

At Climate Week, guaranteeing Indigenous land rights and funding is crucial (commentary)

Dinamam Tuxá and Leila Saraiva 15 Sep 2023
Pierre Friedlingstein is a member of the IPCC and a climate professor.

‘We don’t have much time’: Q&A with climate scientist Pierre Friedlingstein

Sarah Brown 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
Aerial view of a road.

Study: Tricky balancing act between EV scale-up and mining battery metals

Liz Kimbrough 8 Sep 2023

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

Sarah Brown 6 Sep 2023
Coal protest in Indonesia

Indonesian voters want a clean energy plan, but candidates haven’t delivered

Basten Gokkon 6 Sep 2023
The Philippine-endemic JC’s Vine.

Global green growth stalled by climate finance shortfalls (commentary)

Justin Liew Jin Soong 5 Sep 2023
French President Emmanuel Macron

Macron touts forest conservation while promoting gas project on PNG visit

Rachel Donald 10 Aug 2023

As one Brazilian state takes up carbon trading, others may fall for the ‘illusion’

Sarah Brown 27 Jun 2023
The endangered pig-nosed turtle, also known as the Fly River turtle, lives in northern Australian and southern New Guinea, including in the area Medco is operating in. Image by Jin Kemoole/Flickr.

Report: Forest-razing biomass plant in Indonesia got millions in green funds

Philip Jacobson 2 Jun 2023

IPCC warns of ‘last chance’ to limit climate change via drastic emissions cuts

John Cannon 20 Mar 2023
Sunset over the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Mobilizing Amazon societies to reduce forest carbon emissions and unlock the carbon market (commentary)

Dan Nepstad, Monica de los Rios, Ronaldo Seroa da Motta 13 Mar 2023
Aerial image of a reforestation program in the DRC.

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

John Cannon 24 Feb 2023
Karst mountain in Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forest carbon offsets are a tool, not a silver bullet (commentary)

Robert Nasi and Pham Thu Thuy 7 Feb 2023

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