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Banking on Cities: Investing in Resilient and Low-Carbon Urbanization

Banking on Cities advances the discussion on urban climate finance by exploring how cities can identify sources of funding and finance that are suited to different types of resilient and low-carbon…

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Green Technologies: Decarbonizing Development in East Asia and Pacific

The book proposes a framework to guide policy on green technology development and diffusion. It will be of interest to policy makers, businesses, and researchers working at the intersection of…

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Just Transition Tool for Private Sector Activities

The Just Transition Tool for Private Sector Activities provides actionable guidance to policymakers for developing place-based economic strategies that leverage the private sector to deliver…

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Global Carbon Capture Storage Institute (CCS): Carbon Capture Legal Programme Legal Resources

Case studies on the implementation of Directive 2009/31/EC on the geological storage of carbon dioxide

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UK Carbon Trust Fund: A Public-Private Partnership for Eco-Innovation

UK Carbon Trust Fund: A Public-Private Partnership for Eco-Innovation 

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Post Durban: Moving to a fragmented carbon market world?

Post Durban: Moving to a fragmented carbon market world?

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Just Transition for All: The World Bank Group’s Support to Countries Transitioning Away from Coal

Transitioning countries away from coal—the world's most dominant and most carbon-intensive source of energy—is crucial to ensuring a clean energy future. 

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Legal Implications of Voluntary Carbon Credits

The transition to a low carbon economy is estimated to require significant funding globally. The voluntary carbon market continues to play a critical role in that transition by helping to channel…

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Compliance Carbon Markets Final Report

Compliance Carbon Markets (CCMs), or Emissions Trading Systems (ETS) markets, fall under two broad categories. The first and most widely used type of compliance carbon market, also called “cap-and-…

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Voluntary Carbon Markets: An introduction for exchanges

This Market Monitor focuses primarily on the voluntary carbon market, although the newly launched SSE Carbon Markets Advisory Group may also explore the compliance market in more depth as part of…

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Carbon Opportunities Fund and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas Lead the Way with First Transaction of Tokenized Carbon Assets reflected in the Climate Action Data Trust

In an important step for carbon markets, and key milestone for the Carbon Opportunities Fund and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) announced one of the first transactions of tokenized carbon…

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2023 State of the Voluntary Carbon Market

The Carbon Direct State of the Voluntary Carbon Market report provides carbon credit purchasers, project developers, and policymakers with a snapshot of key trends and market developments. The market…

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Verra Publishes Responses to Consultation on VCU Label Proposals

Verra has published a summary of comments received during the public consultation on proposed Verified Carbon Unit (VCU) labels, along with Verra’s responses.

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The Legal Nature of Carbon Credits

Notwithstanding the important role of offsetting as a tool to help deliver Paris Agreement alignment and the widely anticipated surge in demand for VCCs (noting the emergence of new VCC marketplaces…

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Zimbabwe to regulate carbon credit market to curb greenwashing

Zimbabwe's government will closely regulate voluntary carbon offset trading in a bid to curb greenwashing and ensure benefits for local communities.

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Zimbabwe backs down from carbon deals bonfire threat – report

The Carbon Pulse website introduces Zimbabwe's carbon offset practice.

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The Core Carbon Principles

The Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) are a global benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits that set rigorous thresholds on disclosure and sustainable development.

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Carbon Offset Credit Insurance

Volante provides a truly unique underwriting framework. A multi-class, MGA and Lloyd’s Syndicate managed by Asta Managing Agency Ltd, delivering niche, specialist re/insurance products developed by…

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Protecting carbon credits through data-driven insurance solutions

As Australia and New Zealand continue to face wildfire risk, Timber Investment Management Organizations (TIMOs) issuing carbon credits are left incompletely insured by the traditional market.

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Howden launches ‘World-First’ voluntary carbon credit insurances products to help scale the market

Designed to give buyers and sellers of high-quality, verified carbon credits greater certainty and help the voluntary carbon market grow to $50bn by 2030

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Parametric Insurance & Carbon Risk

Growing wildfire risks hinder carbon offset efforts.