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Guest Post: Why Carbon Removals Are Here to Stay

ESG Today

As businesses ramped up their climate action plans, questions lingered: Would carbon removal be effective, or was it merely a distraction? Wasn’t it just another form of carbon offset, akin to forest protection or renewable cookstove initiatives? Carbon removals are no longer a “nice-to-have”. This shift is timely.

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What Are Carbon Offsets and Why Do Corporations Use Them?

3BL Media

When one greatly outweighs the other, problems arise, and currently there is a big one brewing in the carbon offset market—demand has grown exponentially and supply simply cannot keep pace. What are carbon offsets and why is it so difficult to make them verifiable, impactful, and scalable? What are carbon offsets?

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Offsets 101: What You Need to Know to Buy Carbon Offsets

GreenBiz

Speakers: Elizabeth Sturcken | Managing Director, EDF+Business | Environmental Defense Fund Kelley Kizzier | Vice President for Global Climate | Environmental Defense Fund This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE Net Zero, July 27-28, 2021. Learn more about the event here: [link]

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How to Reach Net Zero – and Go Beyond

Chris Hall

More and more, household names – like British Airways, Arup, London Marathon Events, Microsoft and Google see that carbon removal is important not just for its potential to mitigate carbon but for its broader environmental, social and governance impact. Carbon removal is not just a technical fix for carbon emissions.

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Our Climate Transition Opportunities and Risks

3BL Media

As demand for carbon credits grows, voluntary markets that are large, transparent, and verifiable are developing. Regulatory landscapes and market frameworks are evolving, which could build confidence in the use of forest carbon offsets to support a company’s transition to net-zero.

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Net zero transition – the latest signals of change: March 24, 2023

We Mean Business Coalition

Signals of change in the net zero transition this week show businesses advocating for strong climate policy in the finance, transport and land sectors. And UK pension provider Scottish Widows has called on the government to start regulating carbon offsets.

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Salesforce Launches Carbon Credit Marketplace

ESG Today

Net Zero Marketplace brings together carbon credit project providers, buyers, & third-party raters. Salesforce announced that several third-party ratings companies have joined Net Zero Marketplace as inaugural partners, including Calyx Global and Sylvera.

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