Published by The Nature Conservancy, this explainer summarises COP29 decisions that operationalise Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, covering authorisations, registries, and reporting, and explains implications for NDCs, REDD+, and voluntary carbon markets.
This makes clear the urgency of investing in tropical forests. Published in May 2023, The World Resources Institute explains how the voluntary carbon market can channel finance for forest conservation and restoration. It provides context to corporates embarking on their decarbonisation journey and shares four useful steps that they can take to help end tropical deforestation.
In this explainer released in October 2022, the World Resources Institute explains that carbon markets are currently undervaluing tropical forest carbon credits. Why? They do not account for tropical forests’ non-carbon biophysical processes such as albedo; evapotranspiration, surface roughness and aerosols. Is there a way to accurately reflect these non-carbon benefits and climate mitigation potential in the voluntary carbon market?