Verra has sold one billion carbon credits since 2009, each representing one tonne of carbon dioxide removed permanently from the atmosphere, of which 40% are rainforest carbon offsets. They are one of the leading certifiers of carbon credits, with 88 countries worldwide relying on them for guidance. Although Verra has strongly rejected claims made by the investigation, an...Read More

The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) launched an expanded version of its interactive scoring tool to assess the quality of several newly added types of carbon credits. The new CCQI scores reveal that the majority of carbon credit types assessed are low in quality in one or more criteria, and underscore the need to improve the quality...Read More