August 25, 2026 🎙️ Untangling Climate Finance: The State of the Voluntary Carbon Market with Anton Root Listen to this episode of Untangling Climate Finance by clicking any of the streaming platforms below! “We’re sitting on about 1.6 billion tons of carbon that have been issued but not retired, and that number is growing by…
Welcome to the July edition of the Virtus newsletter! This month, we’re asking why carbon pricing, decades after its first pilot markets, remains the linchpin for pricing in climate risk at scale. In Our Take, we hand the pen to a guest voice: Paula DiPerna, strategic environmental advisor and carbon markets pioneer. She traces the…
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.
Listen to this episode on any of the streaming platforms below. “There is no one solution to the very, very complex problem that is global climate change. We should be pushing at every level, especially the local level. We need to build community, divest from fossil fuels, and advocate for the changes we want to…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Written by: Sean Penrith This is the fifth and final installment of a five-part Innovative Finance for National Forests (IFNF) Insights Brief Series produced by Gordian Knot Strategies, the U.S. Endowment for Forestry and Communities, and the U.S. Forest Service. Each brief distills…
