Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Jay Tipton Global inequality continues to widen amid ongoing conflicts, inflation, and accelerating climate impacts. Recent climate-finance developments underscore how large the investment gap has become – global climate-finance flows now exceed USD 1.9 trillion annually, yet developing countries still face…
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “Carbon markets aren’t the worst – they just went first. They’ve been the testing ground for global climate finance, and now we get to build the high-integrity version the world actually needs.” – Madeleine Carnemark In our November episode of Untangling Climate Finance, Jay…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Jay Tipton Everyone knows that COP30 has kicked off in Brazil. Honestly, it feels impossible to think about anything else right now. Brazil is the center of the climate universe at the moment, and if you’ve been anywhere near climate finance…
Welcome to the October edition of our Virtus newsletter! As autumn settles in and the season turns, we’re reflecting on the pace of change in climate finance – much like the shifting October leaves, the landscape continues to evolve. This month brings bold policy moves, major capital deployment signals, and new science that deepens our…
Written by: Sean Penrith A couple of weeks ago, I read the piece titled “Study Finds Carbon Offsets Failing to Deliver Real Climate Impact,” which was based on the article “Are Carbon Offsets Fixable?” In the abstract for the article, authors Romm, Lezak, and Alshamsi conclude that “most popular offset project types feature intractable quality problems,” and…
