{"id":6683,"date":"2023-08-15T12:31:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=6683"},"modified":"2023-08-15T12:31:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T10:31:09","slug":"investors-guide-to-purchasing-forest-carbon-offsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/08\/15\/investors-guide-to-purchasing-forest-carbon-offsets\/","title":{"rendered":"An investor&#039;s guide to buying forest carbon offsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>REDD+ projects<\/span><span> they make up the largest number\u00a0 <\/span><span>carbon credits<\/span><span> in the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM), which was worth almost $2 billion in 2021 \u2013 almost four times its value in 2020.\u00a0<\/span>It has come a long way since the first REDD credit was issued under the Voluntary Carbon Standard in 2011. <span>Over the course of ten years, REDD+ \u2013 which means reducing emissions from\u00a0<\/span><span>deforestation<\/span><span> and forest degradation, while &quot;+&quot; refers to sustainable forest management,\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><span>protection <\/span><span>\u00a0a\u00a0<\/span><span>reforestation<\/span><span>\u00a0\u2013 passed from the little-known Framework Convention\u00a0<\/span><span>United Nations<\/span><span> about climate change. (UNFCCC) on a critical policy solution for rainforest countries.\u00a0<\/span><span>Until last year, VCM growth projections were optimistic. Non-profit initiative\u00a0<\/span><span>Ecosystem Marketplace<\/span><span> painted an optimistic picture for 2022 in its annual report &quot;The State of Voluntary Carbon Markets&quot; as carbon prices rose. (<em>Gabrielle See)<\/em><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REDD+ projects account for the largest number of carbon credits in the voluntary carbon market (VCM), which was worth almost $2 billion in 2021 \u2013 almost four times its value in 2020. It\u2019s been a long journey since the first REDD credit was issued under the voluntary carbon standard in 2011. Over the course of a decade, REDD+ \u2013 which [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uhlikove-kredity"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}