The highly anticipated UN climate meeting, COP26, is just one week away. National governments, campaign groups, corporates and climate investors will come together to address the biggest challenges of our lifetime at the climate conference, with the race to cut carbon emissions taking centre stage. But how could the conference impact rules around emissions trading schemes, like compliance based offsetting, and what does it mean for net zero strategies?
Investancia Paraguay S.A. has commenced a 30-day public comment period on its VCS+CCB ARR carbon project named 'Impact Reforestation in the Chaco Project"
Not all carbon offsets are created equal. In fact, some are outdated and no longer meet the standards of top carbon offset certification organisations. Some do not do what they claim to do. They are unfit for the global voluntary carbon market.
Nature-based solutions are essential in the fight to tackle climate change. Ensuring combined efforts and involvement from private and public sector in Nature-Based Solutions could amount to significant development in the fight against climate change.
While deforestation in Latin America has typically been focused on the rapid destruction of the Amazon, the second largest forest in South America, the Gran Chaco, stretched between Paraguay, Argentina and Bolivia, ranks as the number one deforestation hotspot on earth. Climate change and its effects is greatly linked to the loss of biodiversity and the rapid destruction of these forests.
The notion of environmental governance, where private and public sectors get involved on several levels, assists to the importance of scalability of REDD+ programs.
The Paraguayan Chaco forest covers 24 million hectares, and is particularly vulnerable— yet vitally important—in addressing the climate and biodiversity crises.
Verra has commenced a 30-day public comment period for CCB Verification of the 2023 monitoring period on Quadriz’ REDD+ carbon project named ‘Corazón Verde del Chaco Project’. Comments are invited from the public.
Paraguay and Singapore marked a significant milestone in global climate action by finalising a bilateral Implementation Agreement under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement.
Quadriz, a leading developer of high-quality carbon offset projects in Paraguay, has been instrumental in shaping the country's carbon market framework, in concert with the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development (MADES).
This achievement underscores our unwavering commitment to occupational health and safety, ensuring a safe and secure working environment for all our employees. This milestone represents our dedication to continuous improvement in workplace safety standards.
To support the fight against climate change, corporate actors must navigate a growingly complex vernacular - with objectively far too many acronyms - as they plan their pathways to a low carbon economy.
From human-caused climate change and biodiversity loss, to warming oceans, desertification and the loss and degradation of entire forest ecosystems, there’s no doubt that the world is facing a convergence of global crises. Yet there is some good news.
