Tuesday, May 4, 2024 Sliced: Transparency in the Voluntary Carbon Market In this edition of Sliced, we focus on a key voluntary carbon market topic – transparency. We highlight the challenges around transparency, as well as the initiatives from market actors working to improve it and improve the integrity of the VCM. — Sliced is a…
Listen to this Sliced essay on any of the streaming platforms below. Within the framework of the Paris Agreement, much of the attention tends to focus on Articles 6.2 and 6.4 due to their market-based approaches to climate finance and carbon trading. Even we have been known to fall into the trap of spending much…
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 Sliced: Let's Not Forget About Article 9 In this edition of Sliced, we shed some light on an often less discussed part of the Paris Agreement, Article 9 and how this key Article impacts climate finance flows from developed to developing nations. — Sliced is a weekly short-form dispatch released every Tuesday…
Welcome to our April edition of Virtus! This month, our focus shifts to resilience and transformation. In “Our Take,” titled “Stumbling Blocks to Steppingstones,” we explore how nascent markets beset with trials and blockades persisted to become leading industry segments and offer conviction that carbon markets are following in those footsteps. In this month’s “Untangling…
“Renewables cannot do it. …. They are just low-density power sources. You can’t run a modern economy on wind farms and rooftop solar.” This was the outlook of a prominent economist in 2012. He shared this opinion in a book he published in 2012. To be fair, Sir Dieter Robin Helm is on the right side of addressing climate change.
