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Carbon Credits and Offsetting

What’s a Carbon Credit? A carbon credit represents either the permanent removal of a tonne...

Understanding Measurement, Reporting, and Verification of Climate Change Mitigation

The historic Paris Agreement brokered in December 2015 established universal and harmonized measurement, reporting, and...

What are Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)?

What are Determined Contributions (NDCs)? Determined Contributions (NDCs) are ‘Nationally Determined Contributions’ and they represent...

Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) of greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation

The Bali Action Plan introduced language on “measurable, reportable and verifiable” greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation...

Strategic support to Tanzania to become REDD+ ready by 2022

Executive Summary Sector: Climate Change: (Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation – REDD+) National...

What You Need to Know About the Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) of Carbon Credits

A wide array of programs and markets around the world offer to deliver, buy, and...

Climate action

Introduction to Climate Action At the United Nations climate change conference in Paris, COP 21,...

Measurement, Reporting and Verification – Technical Material

Under the Convention, developing country Parties are to submit National Communications (NCs) every 4 years...

Why forest carbon credits are an important part of climate action

The severity of the climate emergency requires us to deploy every high-quality tool at our...

What is a forest-based carbon credit?

Forest carbon credits are promises that companies, individuals and governments can purchase to counteract their emissions...

Carbon credits from award-winning Kenyan offset suspended by Verra

The carbon offset certifier Verra told Mongabay it had initiated a “quality control review” of...

Request for Proposals: Climate and Forests – 2023

Lacuna Fund supports the creation, expansion, and maintenance of equitably labeled datasets that enable the...

Biodiversity credits as an economic instrument

One mechanism to help businesses deliver nature-positive outcomes is a biodiversity credit. A ‘biodiversity credit’ is an...

A New Report Shows Huge Issues With Carbon Credits Project In Kenya

According to a report from Survival International, the Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project, a prominent...

US scopes projects for carbon credit scheme under heavyweight committee

The US proposal for a new carbon credit system has begun sizing up potential interest...

How much do investors care about carbon emissions? A new study sheds light

Carbon emissions are a major contributor to global warming and premature deaths due to air...

Businesses Have ‘Gone Quiet’ After Voluntary Carbon Market Revelations

Global stakeholders are witnessing the effects of climate change — a phenomenon that caused hundreds...

Virginia’s First Reforestation Project for Generating Carbon Credits

Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry, GreenTrees Plant Seedlings to Launch Virginia’s First Reforestation Project...

Indigenous, conservation groups pen guide on tropical forest carbon credits

An updated guide written by eight conservation and Indigenous organizations offers a detailed path forward...

Stafford Capital’s Forest Carbon Credit Fund Secures $242 Million

Stafford Capital Partners announced the initial close of its global carbon offset fund at $242...

Importance of additionality and accurate baselines for carbon credit integrity

Forest carbon credits may prove to be a useful tool to reduce net carbon emissions...

Biggest carbon credit certifier to replace its rainforest offsets scheme

The world’s leading carbon credit certifier – used by Disney, Shell, Gucci and other big corporations for...

Carbon Credit Ratings Agency Explores Opportunities in Biodiversity Market

BeZero, a carbon credit ratings agency, has suggested in a research note that independent ratings...

Kanuni za udhibiti na usimamizi wa biashara ya Kaboni za mwaka 2022

4.-(1) Taasisi yoyote inayotekeleza mradi wa kaboni au mtu yeyote anayetekeleza mamlaka chini ya Kanuni...

National Carbon Trading Guidelines

The United Republic of Tanzania is a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on...

Delegation of Powers

Delegation of Powers (Under Regulation 7) 1, SELEMANI SAIDI JAFO, the Minister responsible for the...

Seminar presentation and lunch from UNDO Carbon Ltd

From quarries to crops: could quarry fines increase crop yield, improve soil health and remove...

Starting a VCS Project: What to expect?

Looking to develop a project using the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS)? This section outlines important...

Voluntary Carbon Markets in 2023: A Bumpy Road Behind, Crossroads Ahead

The markets for carbon credits will either rationalize or be stifled by uncertainty and complexity....

Carbon Credit Futures (How Does It Work)

The buying and selling of credits that allow an entity to emit a certain amount...

A new crediting framework can be created through biodiversity

Biodiversity credits have the potential to accelerate funding for biodiversity conservation while benefiting local communities...

How biodiversity credits can benefit businesses, nature, and communities

We are getting dangerously close to environmental tipping points, which the natural world may not...

What exactly are biodiversity credits?

Biodiversity credits are the common unit of measure for offsets in the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme...

Plan Vivo is preparing to publish a draft protocol for biodiversity credits

As the Plan Vivo Foundation prepares to publish its draft biodiversity protocol on Tuesday, the...

Blue Carbon and the Tanzanian government have joined forces to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy.

Blue Carbon, an entity based in the United Arab Emirates, and the Government of Tanzania,...

The Voluntary Carbon Market: Is it effective?

Verra has sold one billion carbon credits since 2009, each representing one tonne of carbon...

Expansion of Carbon Credit Scoring Tool Identifies Opportunities to Improve Carbon Market Quality

The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) launched an expanded version of its interactive scoring tool to assess...

Mwongozo wa kitaifa wa biashara ya kaboni

Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania imeandaa Mwongozo wa Kitaifa wa Biashara ya Kaboni kwa ajili...

Shell anticipates a fivefold increase in carbon credit markets by 2030

According to Shell Plc, the value of the voluntary carbon market, which allows polluters to...

Verra Completes Third-Party Crypto Instruments and Token Consultation

Verra has concluded its consultation on a proposed approach to third-party crypto instruments and tokens and has...

Verra’s Reaction to the Guardian’s Article on Carbon Offsets

Based on collaboration with Die Zeit and Source Material, The Guardian incorrectly claimed that Verra-certified...

Why you should consider adding carbon credits to your climate action plan

Carbon credits, which represent the avoidance, reduction or removal of greenhouse gases in order to...

Minister demands that climate change user projects be protected.

The government has made an appeal to communities that have benefited from climate change adaptation...

Experts warn that climate change can have an impact on mental health

Climate change-related hazards, according to experts, can have a significant impact on mental health. This...

2022: An environmental milestone year

On March 2, in a packed Kenyan conference hall, Norwegian environment minister Espen Barth Eide hammered...

WWF-Canada announces new fund for indigenous protected and conserved areas

Funding will support Indigenous communities in the considering, establishment and stewardship of IPCAs Montreal, December...

UN Biodiversity Conference (CBD COP 15) Key Highlights

The fifteenth meeting of the Member States of the International Convention on Biodiversity (UNCBD COP15)...

EU Strikes Deal to Boost Carbon Market, Europe’s Biggest Climate Policy

BRUXELLES — On Sunday, European Union negotiators reached a political agreement to overhaul the bloc’s...

Using agroecology to combat the effects of climate change

Agroecology is a type of farming that focuses on food production while making the best...

Financing the fight against climate change

“The private sector has an enormous role to play. But what we need is the...

Prize in Green Energy

The Milken-Motsepe Prize in Green Energy is a global competition to reward entrepreneurs and innovators...

Public Awareness on Climate Change

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges funds communication projects that mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Proposals...

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change — Call for Proposals

The Adaptation Fund makes grants for projects and programs that address the adverse impacts of...

What we are doing to counter climate change?

Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Hon. Dr. Phillip Mpango says the government...

How tourism must shift to actually address climate change?

Do you know? Tourism is responsible for an estimated 11% of global greenhouse gas emissions,...

The Africa Climate Change Fund will concentrate on women and youth entrepreneurship

The Africa Climate Change Fund (ACCF) has launched a program to support climate change adaptation...

New efforts are being made to protect smallholders from the effects of climate change

New initiatives are being launched to assist African smallholder farmers in weathering the effects of...

COP27: Climate Investment Funds announces nine countries to participate in the first Nature, People and Climate platform

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) will extend $350 million in financing and other support for...

COP27: 10 key facts about climate change

This article is part of:United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 Adapting our world will not...

COP27: Snapshot of announcements

The conference heard many announcements: Countries launched a package of 25 new collaborative actions in...

What are the most important outcomes of the Cop27 climate summit?

The takeaways from Sharm el-Sheikh range from loss and damage to the 1.5°C target and...

Participation of SUA at UNFCCC COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, November 6 to 18, 2022

Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) was one of the stakeholders from the United Republic of...

What Exactly Is “Net Zero Emissions”?

The recent report from climate scientists is crystal clear: the world must act now. That...

India Unveils Long-Term Plan to Achieve Net Zero at COP27

What’s New in India’s Climate Change Strategy? Last August, India updated its NDC with two...

Adapt or perish: COP27 highlights agricultural challenges and solutions in the face of climate change.

Small-scale farmers in developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they receive only...

COP27: Joe Biden apologizes for the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement

President Joe Biden, who rejoined the agreement shortly after taking office, told the COP27 climate...

What is going on during COP27 at Egypt?

The Sokoine University of Agriculture is one among stakeholders from United Republic of Tanzania participating...

Climate change has been in the news for the past 110 years. Are we finally willing to listen?

We should have acted on climate change in 1912. Linden Ashcroft of The Conversation explains....

Environmental Management (Control and Management of Carbon Trading) Regulations, 2022 is out

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide, is a key element in the fight...

Tanzania Census 2022 Results

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Climate Security and the EU: Toward Ecological Diplomacy

To achieve its goal of becoming an effective geopolitical power, the EU should prioritize ecological...

Dar es Salaam is suffering from a drought

Residents in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, are facing water shortages as a result...

Construction on the World’s Largest Carbon Removal Plant Begins

Occidental Petroleum Corp. of the United States and Carbon Engineering Ltd. of Canada are preparing...

Climate change: The UN warns that a critical warming threshold is evaporating.

According to a bleak new UN assessment, there is “no credible pathway” to keep global...

Climate change is the greatest threat the world has ever faced, according to a UN expert.

Human-caused climate change is the world’s largest and most pervasive threat to the natural environment...

Climate crisis poses ‘growing threat’ to health in UK, says expert

The climate crisis poses a “significant and growing threat” to health in the United Kingdom,...

President Ruto explains the government’s plan on climate change during Mashujaa Day Celebrations

President William Ruto’s Madaraka Day speech on Thursday focused on agriculture, the impact of climate...

Global Climate Challenge

The Social Shifters and Rathbones seek applications to the Global Climate Challenge. The program is...

Public Awareness on Climate Change

The Minor Foundation for Major Challenges funds communication projects that mitigate anthropogenic climate change. Proposals...

A new guide offers assistance to businesses looking for high-quality carbon credits.

The newly released Tropical Forest Credit Integrity (TFCI) guide aims to assist businesses in making...

The true worth of carbon credits and why nature is more than just a carbon sink

Carbon credit debates at COP26 demonstrated how difficult it is to apply a global standard...

Putting forests on the front lines of the fight against climate change

Forests help to mitigate global warming, but they are also endangered by it. Many tree...

Climate change and habitat loss are pushing some primates out of the trees and into an uncertain future.

Climate and fossil records show that large swings in the Earth’s average temperature over eons...

Climate Innovation Accelerator

The Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA) accepts applications for small grant funding. Grants are...

Renewable Energy Promotion in Developing Countries

The independent platform Renewable Energy, Energy and Resource Efficiency Promotion in Developing and Transition Countries...

Climate change in Tanzania

Tanzania’s natural environment and residents are being impacted by climate change. Tanzania’s temperatures are rising,...

Egypt replants mangrove ‘treasures’ to combat the effects of climate change.

Fish swim among thousands of newly planted mangroves on Egypt’s Red Sea coast, as part...

Nature-based solutions and climate change

What are nature-based solutions? Nature-based solutions are actions that protect, sustainably manage, or restore natural...

Climate change puts energy security at risk

WMO, Geneva, 11 October 2022 – To limit global temperature rise, the supply of electricity...

Tanzanian eco-villages are fighting climate change.

Tanzania’s economy is heavily reliant on sectors that are vulnerable to climate variability and change....

Civil societies are critical to Africa’s resilience to climate change

According to Dr. Adesina, civil societies are critical to Africa’s resilience to climate change. Dr....

Climate change adaptation will cost Tanzania 44trn/-

The government is set to spend USD19.2 billion (over 44trn/-) to implement a national action...

What causes climate change?

Climate is commonly thought of as the expected weather conditions at a given location over...

Forest Carbon Credits

Carbon stock valuation within forestland has emerged as a promising new method of incentivizing conservation...

Guidelines for integrating climate change adaptation into national sectoral policies, plans and programmes of Tanzania

Climate change is a global problem posing challenges to the survival of mankind and sustainable...

National Climate Change Response Strategy

The National Climate Change Response Strategy (NCCRS) has been revised based on a number of...

Tanzania Forest Reference Emission Level for Deforestation and Forest Degradation

The Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change...

Carbon sequestration and biodiversity

Biodiverse ecosystems have the potential to provide important services to humanity. One such service involves...

Forest health and carbon sequestration

Forest health signifies the carrying capacity of a forest for carbon sequestration. A healthy forest...

Carbon markets

Carbon markets are a critical tool for achieving global climate goals, especially in the short...