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Our Take: The Miracle of Carbon Pricing – Where It Came From, Why It Is So Important
In conservation finance, “community engagement” has become almost reflexive. Projects mention it in their opening paragraphs, check the box in their logic models, and schedule a round of stakeholder meetings before implementation begins. Yet across the Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) program, this language often masked a deeper problem: communities were being informed about decisions, not invited to shape them.
Our Take: IMPACT 2026 Predictions
As we look ahead to 2026, carbon markets and climate finance more broadly are moving from
a period of rebuilding to one of structural reshaping. COP30 in Belém concluded with limited
political progress, yet markets themselves continue to evolve through integrity reforms, the
expansion of compliance frameworks, rapid shifts in impact investing, major new blendedfinance initiatives, and increased flows of private capital into transition and resilience solutions.
Drawing on developments across 2025, we outline our predictions for 2026 across our six
IMPACT pillar framework.
IMPACT stands for – Integrity, Momentum, Prices, Achievement, Collaboration, and Targets.The Data Economics Company and Gordian Knot Strategies highlight deployment of Enkrateia to support The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
Enkrateia’s Lydion-powered data network facilitates the Integrity Council’s Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Platform for the voluntary carbon market Los Angeles, August 8, 2023 —The Data Economics Company (DECO) and Gordian Knot Strategies (GKS) announced the deployment of Enkrateia to support the effort of setting and enforcing a definitive global threshold for high quality carbon credits undertaken by…
Sliced: 🎙️ Eric Wei on Scaling Safe Water Through Carbon Markets
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “We need to position climate finance as an opportunity – not a controversy, not a cost, and not a non-sustainable source of capital.” — Eric Wei In our June episode of Untangling Climate Finance, Jay connected with Eric Wei, Carbon Credit Program Director at…
Sliced: Turning Urban Forests Into Climate Assets: City Forest Carbon+ Credits For Sale
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Seeds of Change: A Conversation With Mast Reforestation
In this episode, Jay speaks with Grant Canary (Founder & CEO) and Jonathan Loevner (VP, Carbon Markets & Policy) of Mast Reforestation. The three connected in September 2023 and dove deep into the innovative financial mechanisms and environmental strategies driving Mast’s post-wildfire reforestation efforts. They discuss their $15 million project financing deal with Carbon Stream…
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