Nossa equipe entrevista e coleta divulgações anuais de participantes do mercado, como desenvolvedores de projetos e revendedores de créditos, e combinamos essas informações com dados de registro dos principais padrões e certificações de créditos de carbono. Embora os relatórios do SOVCM sejam sempre retrospectivos, também buscamos ter uma visão de futuro do que pode vir a seguir, especialmente à medida que o MVC continua a evoluir para atender a padrões mais elevados de qualidade e integridade. Baixe as principais descobertas.

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Our team interviews and collects annual disclosures from market participants, such as project developers and credit resellers, and we combine this with registry data from the largest carbon credit standards and certifications. While SOVCM reports are always retrospective, we also aim to take a forward-looking lens of what can come next, especially as the VCM continues to evolve to meet higher standards of quality and integrity. 

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This report assesses China’s embedded tropical deforestation and emissions footprint linked to its agricultural and plantation forestry imports. These calculations are based on a major global analysis and database of deforestation and carbon emission impacts of the international trade in agricultural and timber products, augmented by Forest Trends’ (2021) analysis of the extent and nature of illegal tropical deforestation.

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These economic instruments have been around for decades. The first habitat banks appeared in the United States in the early 1980s. But recent growth in the market for voluntary carbon credits has clearly been a catalyst for renewed interest in whether a similar instrument might be applied to the problem of global nature loss. It’s been buoyed by a surge in venture capital funding for NatureTech startups, a sizeable number of whom are focused on measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) and biodiversity credits.

This report offers a diverse set perspectives from experts in biodiversity and nature finance on what the forward path looks like to drive more private investment into nature and biodiversity. It begins with a look back on what we’ve learned about delinking development from nature loss from three decades of experience and experimentation with biodiversity markets, with an essay contributed by Adam Davis, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Ecosystem Investment Partners (“Offsets and investments: Thoughts on de-linking economic development and biodiversity loss”).

There are sizeable opportunities, connected to a wave of new infrastructure investment on the horizon globally to expand that model to new geographies, as Mariana Sarmiento, Charles Bedford, and Dr Timothy Male argue (“How we harness an infrastructure boom to close the biodiversity finance gap,”). Doing so would chart a different course for economic development in Global South countries where nature is substantially still intact. Nature-based asset classes are a promising field for entrepreneurs and land managers. But a reality check is due on what is likely to really attract demand, Ben Guillon and Genevieve Bennett argue (“Design for demand: What actually drives private finance for nature?”).

On the demand side, biodiversity credits and other conservation assets offer a path to not simply fix the damage, but go “nature positive” by creating more nature than there was before. These ambitions need to be grounded in the mitigation hierarchy, or credits could be used for greenwashing, warn Martine Maron, Fabien Quétier, and Amrei von Hase (“No shortcuts to nature positive”). Biodiversity might lend itself well to being “stacked” with or “stapled on” to other investments in carbon and value chains. Julia McCarthy and Ryan Sarsfield (“Beetles in a pay stack”) offer a useful framework for thinking about how to do this effectively.

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Since 2021, Forest Trends has published regular updates on the status of Myanmar’s forest sector and the impact of these sanctions. Post coup, data have become increasingly difficult to obtain. It is clear the sanctions have hurt the military junta’s ability to financially benefit from the forest sector and continue to fund the armed conflict. Their control over the forest sector is waning. The military junta is more vulnerable than before, opening opportunities to pressure them for a peaceful transition to federal democracy in Myanmar. 

However, there is still a risk that the trade continues, particularly by circumventing sanctions through indirect imports from countries such as China and India – some of which may be linked to organized crime or the war crime of pillage, defined as the trade in stolen property, including natural resources, during armed conflict. 

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