It’s been an eventful few quarters for the Carbon Market industry. The year began with a watershed article from the Guardian calling out REDD+ credits for being worthless, “phantom credits”. This set off somewhat of a chain reaction, with the ICVCM later releasing revised guidelines for the assessment of

I was first introduced to Siddarth Shrikanth in 2022. Back then, he was still in the process of writing his book and I remember feeling incredibly excited to learn that he was concerned with and addressing the question of how to find economic value in the preservation of nature. We

Santosh owns a small two hectare plot of land, roughly half the size of the London Eye, in Northern India. He is a second-generation farmer and agriculture is his only source of income. Things aren’t the same as they were when he started working in his fields two decades

Let’s start with some trivia. Here is the story of the first carbon credit. “In 1988, Applied Energy Services (now AES) planned to build small coal-fired power plants around the United States, selling the electricity to local utilities. But the CEO of AES, Roger Sant, was concerned about climate