Pervasive over-crediting from cookstove offset methodologies

A Gill-Wiehl, DM Kammen, BK Haya - Nature Sustainability, 2024 - nature.com
Cookstove carbon offset projects can progress multiple Sustainable Development Goals
(SDGs), including climate, energy, health, gender, poverty and deforestation. However …

Tourism and Environment: Ecology, Management, Economics, Climate, Health, and Politics

RC Buckley, S Underdahl - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
We review research on tourism and the environment using a temporal framework, distinct
from previous reviews. We identify six main phases, all still active, but with different histories …

Australian human-induced native forest regeneration carbon offset projects have limited impact on changes in woody vegetation cover and carbon removals

A Macintosh, D Butler, P Larraondo… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Carbon offsets are a widely used climate policy instrument that can reduce mitigation costs
and generate important environmental and social co-benefits. However, they can increase …

The geography of avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management offsets: the enduring question of additionality

C Gallemore, A Bowsher, A Atheeque, E Groff… - Climate …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Avoided deforestation and sustainable forest management (AD/SFM) offset projects have
developed piecemeal, lacking consensus standards and receiving only quite low carbon …

Funding forests' climate potential without carbon offsets

L Blanchard, BK Haya, C Anderson, G Badgley… - One Earth, 2024 - cell.com
Nature-based climate solutions (NbCSs) could play an important role in meeting the goals of
the Paris Agreement. The contribution approach offers an alternative model to carbon …

[PDF][PDF] Biodiversity credits: learning lessons from other approaches to incentivize conservation

S Wunder, C Fraccaroli, JW Bull, T Dutta, A Eyres… - 2024 - es.savimbo.com
Biodiversity credits are an emerging vehicle for pro-environmental financing. Here we define
and delimit biodiversity credits and explore the pathways through which credits can be …

Current forest carbon offset buffer pools do not adequately insure against disturbance-driven carbon losses

WRL Anderegg, AT Trugman, G Vargas G, C Wu… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Nature-based climate solutions in Earths forests could strengthen the land carbon sink and
contribute to climate mitigation, but must adequately account for climate risks to the durability …

[PDF][PDF] The Standards-Regulation Nexus: Mapping the Ecosystem of Standardisation

A Lang, G Messenger - 2024 - bsigroup.com
The authors were commissioned to produce a report for the British Standards Institution
(BSI), examining how best to deliver policy outcomes through the relationship between …

[PDF][PDF] Climate Policy Options

MJ Kotchen - 2024 - resources.environment.yale.edu
This paper provides an economics perspective on climate policy options that focus in
particular on creating incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Questions are …

Non-compliance and under-performance in Australian human-induced regeneration projects

A Macintosh, MC Evans, D Butler… - The Rangeland …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
The 'boom-and-bust'nature of rangeland ecosystems makes them ill-suited to nature-based
solution (NbS) carbon offset projects involving sequestration in vegetation and soils. The …