Learn how carbon markets work, including compliance and voluntary markets, to reduce emissions through carbon credit trading.

With record breaking sales once more in 2024, the popularity of carbon dioxide removal credits continues to rise. As the industry speculates incorporation of carbon removals into broader compliance ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. Carbon credits have become a buzzword in the fight against ...

Taylor Swift may not be the first person who comes to mind when you think about climate change. But more than once, the singer has found herself in the middle of a media storm over her carbon di­oxide ...

The voluntary market for carbon credits is projected to reach nearly $100 billion by 2030 and as much as $250 billion by 2050. Despite its growth, still fall short of the carbon reduction targets ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the voluntary carbon market expands, not all carbon ...

Carbon credits meant to protect forests may overstate their impact, with projects claiming far more emissions cuts than they ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The University at Buffalo has become the first State University of New York (SUNY) campus to further reduce greenhouse gas emissions by purchasing high-quality carbon credits as part ...

The U.S. could lose up to 15 million acres of forestland to development by 2060. One effort to keep forests intact is to give landowners a financial incentive through the carbon market. Paul Martin ...

For centuries the monetary value of forested land has been realized only when trees are felled, when standing timber is turned to finished lumber. With the onset of climate change, the economics of ...

Washington’s Department of Natural Resources is making a renewed push for legislation that would allow it to sell carbon offset credits created from state timber lands. Under bills proposed in the ...

The airline’s deliberate, years-long search for high-integrity credits shows just how much scrutiny now surrounds the carbon market. Air New Zealand has made its first major carbon credit purchase, ...