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📣 White House & Depts of Treasury, Agriculture and Energy publish Voluntary Carbon Markets Principles 📝 Today, The White House, U.S. Department of the Treasury, US Department of Agriculture OIG and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) published their #VCM Joint Policy Statement and Principles (link in the comments below), signalling the Biden administration's continued prioritization of VCMs as a tool for tackling climate change. The Principles serve a function similar to that of the ICVCM Core Carbon Principles: exhibiting consensus among key stakeholders and codifying an approach to developing high-integrity voluntary carbon markets, which is critical to unlocking capital for carbon reduction and removal projects. #carboncredits #decarbonization #cdr

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of November 18. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including France, China, India, Poland, and more. They are implementing a broad range of activities, including activities related to sustainable grassland management, EV infrastructure, landfill biogas pollution and treatment, and farm resilience and regeneration. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove at least 804,535+ tCO2e annually from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects that opened for public comment during the week of November 18 in our announcement: https://bit.ly/4fEPd9d 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonCredits Photo by Verra staff. View of a red deer family on grassland.

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What are corporations looking for when investing in #waterstewardship projects and how can utilities leverage private sector funding? https://ow.ly/7yIK50SCNmK BC’s Dr. Carla De Las Casas and Dr. Patricia Whitby share their expertise in Part 2 of the #WaterOnline series “Unlocking the Potential of Corporate Funding to Address Water Challenges.” #sustainability #ESG #utilities #funding

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of November 11. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Program. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including Ireland, Vietnam, Peru, Bulgaria, South Africa, and more. They are implementing a broad range of activities, including activities related to mangrove restoration, methane avoidance in anaerobic lagoons, e-waste recycling, and sustainable dairy farming. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove at least 1,689,556 tCO2e annually from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects open for public comment in our announcement: https://bit.ly/4hMbpzv 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonCredits #CircularEconomy Photos by Waranont(Joe) for Unsplash.com

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Novi Strategies is delighted to have partnered with the Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition (SEEC) Institute to produce the SEEC Institute’s inaugural report, Catalyzing Climate Solutions: Assessing the IRA and IIJA's Use of Public Funds to Spur Private Investment. Two years into the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) and three years into the IIJA, Novi conducted interviews with key stakeholders to gain and share insight about some of the most significant of the IRA and IIJA’s public-private partnership approaches to driving GHG emission reductions through what is becoming known as the United States' climate industrial policy regime. The interviews and other research conducted on early implementation of the IIJA and IRA yielded several important recommendations for future implementation practices as well as potential statutory action to improve how these programs are implemented and hasten the climate and domestic manufacturing benefits intended.    The provisions considered in the SEEC report include (1) the expansion of the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Loan Program Office (LPO), (2) the creation of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF), (3) the Climate Pollution Reduction Grant (CPRG) program at EPA; (4) various cost share programs aimed at technology demonstration and deployment, and (5) the transferability and direct pay provisions of the tax code, each of which in their unique ways seeks to blend public financing with private investment, require cost-share private investment to gain generous public grants, or invite public entities into the tax credit market. The actional recommendations and guidance for yielding the statutes' intended outcomes focus on ways that implementing entities are currently empowered to immediately improve implementation practices, ways that Congress might adjust the underlying statutes, and a mixture of both. For a detailed look at the assessments and the full report: https://lnkd.in/ebwK-K57. The webinar about the report will be available for viewing shortly.

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Wheaton Precious Metals Publishes 2023 Climate Change Report. Read the full news release here: https://ow.ly/96jl50SoLxq Access the report here: https://ow.ly/ocWf50SoLxm #TCFD #reporting #climate #sustainability #mining

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Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of July 1. #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #SustainableDevelopment https://bit.ly/4cvVUZD

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of August 12. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Plastic Waste Reduction Standard Programs. The projects are located in Kazakhstan, China, India, Paraguay, to name a few, and are implementing a broad range of activities, including plastic waste recycling and management activities, activities that reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, and more. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove 442,839 tCO2e from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects open for public comment in our announcement: https://bit.ly/4ctQ5uL. 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CircularEconomy Photo courtesy of Second Life Thailand. Second Life Thailand: Ocean and Land Plastic Waste Recovery, Recycling and Reuse (Verra Project 2513).

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of November 25. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including China, India, Paraguay, Turkey, and Peru. They implement a wide range of activities, including urban forest development, landfill gas (LFG) recovery and utilization, PET bottle and textile waste recycling, and protecting and restoring Amazonian ecosystems. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove at least 597,881+ tCO2e annually from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects that opened for public comment during the week of November 25 in our announcement: https://bit.ly/3Z18mLm 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonCredits Photo by Lisa Murray, Abdul Haji Ismael working in the Bale Mountains Eco-Region REDD+ Project - Verra Project #1340

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of October 7. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including in Ghana, Turkey, and Brazil, and are implementing a broad range of activities, including those related to biogas, Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR), landfill gas (LFG) and more. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove over 2,986,884 tCO2e from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects open for public comment in our announcement: https://bit.ly/3zLuQrf 🗣️Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonReduction #CircularEconomy Photo by Lisa Murray. Bale Mountains Eco-Region REDD+ Project, Ethiopia (Verra Project 1340).

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of October 14. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS), Plastic Waste Reduction Standard, and the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including in India, Indonesia, Ghana and more, and are implementing a broad range of activities, including those related to plastic waste collection and recycling, manufacturing, Afforestation, Reforestation, and Revegetation (ARR), cookstoves and more. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove over 325,428 tCO2e from the atmosphere, and 255,526 metric tonnes of plastic from the environment, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects open for public comment in our announcement: https://bit.ly/4he1jYa 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #PlasticWaste #CarbonNeutral Photo courtesy of Deekali Plastic Recovery Project (Verra Project 2720).

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of December 2. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), the Plastic Waste Reduction Standard, and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS) Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including China, India, Chile, Turkey, and Peru. They implement a wide range of activities, including composting, forest management to reduce deforestation and degradation, a grassland management, and PET waste recycling. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove at least 35,246 tCO2e annually from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects that opened for public comment during the week of December 2 in our announcement: https://bit.ly/3D0ZjCZ 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonCredits #PlasticWaste #CircularEconomy Photo courtesy of Deekali Plastic Recovery West Africa: Recycling, Reuse, and Community Action (Verra Project 2720)

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📢 Public Comment Period Now Open! 🌍 Every project seeking to register in a Verra standards program undergoes a 30-day public comment period. The public comment periods for the projects listed here opened during the week of November 4. This week's listing includes projects seeking registration and/or verification in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Standards (CCBS), the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta), and the Plastic Waste Reduction Standard Programs. The projects are located in various geographic regions, including Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, South Africa, Cambodia, Spain, and more. They are implementing a broad range of activities, including activities related to domestic waste power generation, REDD+, recycling, and clean cookstoves. 🌱 Impact Highlight: Collectively, these projects could reduce and/or remove at least 18,823,317 tCO2e annually from the atmosphere, helping to accelerate our transition to a more sustainable future. 🔗 Learn More: View the full list of projects open for public comment in our announcement: https://bit.ly/48OKVcM 🗣️ Get Involved: Share your thoughts and contribute to shaping these projects. Your feedback matters! #ClimateAction #CarbonMarkets #Verra #SustainableDevelopment #CarbonCredits #CircularEconomy Photo by Lisa Murray, Bale Mountain Eco Region REDD+ (Verra Project 1340).

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On 17 September, Benjamin Chee will speak in a panel discussion titled “Renewable Electricity Supply Constraints in Wholesale and Voluntary Markets.” The panel will delve into the obstacles and restrictions of renewable electricity supply in wholesale and voluntary markets, with a focus on the Western Electricity Coordinating Council region and New York. It will explore the unique supply constraints in the region and their implications for voluntary renewable energy procurement and compliance markets. In a separate session, Mr. Chee, Jane Kim, and Hannah Farrell will lead a roundtable discussion and present on “Compliance Market Procurement Drivers.” The speakers will discuss the distinctive features of Virtual Power Purchase Agreements contract terms in the compliance market. https://bit.ly/4dNKRvi

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The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has made a $40 million loan commitment to Africa GreenCo. The facility aims to enhance GreenCo’s creditworthiness, providing financial backing for its payment obligations to independent power producers (IPPs), while helping the company establish itself as a reliable energy aggregator and an alternative to financially strained public utilities in countries like Zambia, South Africa, and Namibia. “DFC’s involvement will further enhance our operations and enable us to scale our capacity to provide clean, affordable energy to more people across Southern Africa,” said Pug Bennet, Chief Investment Officer of GreenCo. “With DFC’s facility, GreenCo will be able to access $50 million of Liquidity Buffer Capacity that will back over 350 MW of renewable energy capacity. Together, we can help address the region’s growing demand for energy while supporting global climate goals.” GreenCo’s model involves aggregating renewable energy-generated power and trading it in both national markets and the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). Erica Koszalka Ehst, DFC’s Vice President of Energy, stated: “DFC is committed to supporting projects that create sustainable and scalable impacts. Our financial support to GreenCo is part of our ongoing effort to help build clean energy economies in Africa and support the region’s transition to a net-zero future.” #cleanenergy

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We were thrilled to demonstrate our Decarbonization-as-a-Service platform at the 29th annual LDC Gas Forums & US-Mexico Natural Gas Forum & Gulf Coast Energy Forum - Northeast, which took place here in Boston last week. Context Labs BV participates in the forum to demonstrate the ways that the DaaS platform is enabling our energy customers to quantify and reduce emissions, then prove climate performance at scale. Our panel on gas emissions reduction, “Differentiated Gas: An innovation offering a lower-carbon alternative to the energy mix,” was one of the highlights of the event. During the panel, Context Labs CEO Dan Harple; Jim Kerr, CEO of Southern Company Gas; Chad Zamarin, Executive Vice President of Corporate Strategic Development for Williams, and Toby Z. Rice, CEO of EQT Corporation, shared the tools and strategies they’ve used to scale emissions reductions across the energy value chain. Kerr discussed how his company is scaling its decarbonization program and delivering premium-priced differentiated gas to the market. Rice of EQT, and Zamarin of Williams, both Context Labs’ customers, explained how they are using Context Labs’ Decarbonization-as-a-Service (DaaS™) platform to deliver natural gas with a verified carbon intensity to customers like Kerr, by providing end-to-end emissions proof of performance, while also using DaaS to meet their respective Net Zero goals. DaaS, a secure, scalable, end-to-end solution for managing carbon performance, is helping EQT and Williams discover and implement effective actions to reduce methane and carbon intensity by leveraging granular emissions data at the source level. By enabling more carbon efficient carbon operations the companies are able to commercialize decarbonization through the development of NextGen Gas. Harple concluded the panel with a demo of DaaS, showing how the AI-enabled solution transforms operational and third-party data into trusted, contextual Asset Grade Data climate analytics that accelerate and prove performance beyond compliance. We’re proud to be part of the conversation shaping the future of decarbonization. Thank you to all who attended and contributed to making this event a success. Let's continue driving innovation and collaboration to accelerate the energy transition. https://lnkd.in/g3NtrA83 #netzero #decarbonization #energy #climatechange #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #carboncredits #energytransition #ldcgasforums #microsoft

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