Tag: Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market

The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market announced recently that Amy Merrill will become its first Chief Executive Officer. Amy has served as the Integrity Council’s interim Chief Operating Officer since December 2023 and since February 2023 has worked with the Integrity Council’s Executive Secretariat on secondment from her role as Senior Director and Head of Global Markets at Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). She has steered the Integrity Council through a key period of growing support and recognition for its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). She…

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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market recently announced the first carbon-crediting methodologies that meet its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). In the third of an ongoing series of assessment decisions, the Integrity Council approved seven carbon crediting methodologies. This means that the high-integrity CCP label can now be used on an estimated 27 million carbon credits issued by projects that tackle potent greenhouse gases by capturing methane from landfill sites and by destroying ozone-depleting foams and refrigerant gases from discarded equipment such as refrigerators and air conditioners. Another…

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The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has released its full global benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits, with the goal of maximizing the ability of the voluntary carbon market to support delivery of global climate targets. Following consultation with hundreds of organizations throughout the voluntary carbon market and advice from scientific and carbon-crediting experts, the Integrity Council has completed the framework it will use to assess whether carbon credits meet its high-integrity Core Carbon Principles (CCPs). Carbon-crediting programs can now apply for assessment by submitting evidence that they meet…

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