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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting independent experts for a new panel term beginning in 2025, as the existing panel's mandate expires at year-end 2024. Selected membe…
3 Oct 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market is recruiting senior and young professionals to join its independent Expert Panel for a term of up to three years beginning in 2025. The panel adv…
3 Oct 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market participated in New York Climate Week 2024, co-hosting a flagship event focused on scaling high-integrity voluntary carbon markets. Speakers from …
3 Oct 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has acknowledged US enforcement actions against C-Quest Capital and its former employees following allegations of over-issuance of millions of car…
3 Oct 2024
Indigenous Peoples and local communities must be central partners in shaping the reformed voluntary carbon market if it is to achieve its full potential to fund climate solutions and protect nature, a…
25 Sept 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has launched an Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPs and LCs) VCM Engagement Forum to give communities managing critical ecosystems a for…
25 Sept 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market welcomed the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's guidance on voluntary carbon credit derivatives, which identifies the ICVCM's Core Carbon P…
24 Sept 2024
Dhruba Purkayastha, Director of Growth and Institutional Advancement at the Council on Energy, Environment and Water in India, has contributed to IEEFA's research network with over 30 years of experie…
12 Sept 2024
Subham Shrivastava served as a Climate Finance Analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, working at the intersection of finance, climate policy and data modelling to suppor…
10 Sept 2024
New Zealand will cut emission units auctioned under its Emissions Trading Scheme from 45 million to 21 million across 2025 to 2029 to counter oversupply that depressed carbon prices and caused failed …
21 Aug 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market ruled that carbon credits from existing renewable energy methodologies, covering approximately 236 million unretired credits and 32% of the volunt…
6 Aug 2024
Iberdrola secured a 15-year €500 million syndicated green loan from ICO, Sabadell, and HSBC, backed by Cesce, to fund 897 MW of wind, solar, and battery projects in the US, Australia, and Italy. The f…
4 Aug 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market named eight members of a new Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities VCM Engagement Forum representing Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania and t…
30 Jul 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market said it would analyse the claims made in a CarbonPlan policy report before determining next steps, welcoming the scrutiny of carbon market project…
3 Jul 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market welcomed the ABACUS principles for quantifying the climate impact of forest restoration projects as a complementary initiative to its own global q…
2 Jul 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced it would investigate alleged fraud at C-Quest Capital, whose former CEO is accused of over-issuing millions of carbon credits from cooks…
26 Jun 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market named Amy Merrill as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer, effective 1 July 2024. Merrill, who has over 20 years of experience in carbon market p…
20 Jun 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market approved its first Core Carbon Principles label for seven methodologies covering an estimated 27 million carbon credits. The benchmark sets qualit…
7 Jun 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced the first batch of carbon crediting methodologies meeting its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles, enabling the CCP label to be applie…
6 Jun 2024
The Core Carbon Principles label, issued by the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, denotes that a carbon credit meets a rigorous global benchmark for environmental integrity, governanc…
5 Jun 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market welcomed the Biden-Harris Administration's announcement of principles to advance high-integrity voluntary carbon markets, noting that the US gover…
28 May 2024
Indigenous Peoples and local communities are establishing a self-led global forum to shape the future of the voluntary carbon market, with a first convening scheduled for June 2024. The forum was deve…
24 May 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has published a statement responding to a BBC Panorama documentary that raised concerns about the quality of carbon credits and voluntary carbon m…
3 May 2024
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has confirmed that Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), operated by Verra, and the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions (ART), operated by Winrock Inter…
2 May 2024
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