Thank you to Amy Falcione from Big Picture Marketing for design templates. Thank you to
Erika Barnett from GHGMI for formatting and design implementation for this guidance …

Greenhouse gas (GHG) offsets have long been promoted as an important element of a
comprehensive climate policy approach. Offset programs can reduce the overall cost of …

The Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) has become a key instrument
for climate change mitigation. Parties with emission targets are using it to buy greenhouse …

Carbon offsets are produced and sold under the international climate change regime (the
United Nations Kyoto Protocol) and also within an expanding voluntary offset market in …

Ensuring the environmental integrity of internationally transferred mitigation outcomes,
whether through offset arrangements, a market mechanism or non-market approaches, is a …

With nature-based offsets emerging as a core strategy for meeting near-term climate targets,
it is essential they deliver real and verifiable mitigation gains. However, the interventions that …

Carbon offsets allow greenhouse gas emitters to comply with an emissions cap by paying
others outside of the capped sectors to reduce emissions. The first major carbon offset …

Summary As the United States designs its strategy for regulating emissions of greenhouse
gases, two central issues have emerged. One is how to limit the cost of compliance while still …

The research into Verra, the world's leading carbon standard for the rapidly growing $2 bn (£
1.6 bn) voluntary offsets market, has found that, based on analysis of a significant …

This paper identifies factors that explain the large variability in the price of voluntary carbon
offsets. We estimate hedonic price functions using a variety of provider-and project-level …