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Verra carbon offset standards (VCS) play a central role in the voluntary carbon market, helping organisations ensure their climate actions are credible and measurable. This guide explores how Verra, Gold Standard and CER frameworks work, their key differences, and the growing debate around transparency and real environmental impact.
Carbon offsetting can be one of the most valuable tools in a business climate strategy, but only when it is used responsibly. For many UK businesses, the real question is no longer simply whether to offset. The better question is how to take responsibility for the emissions that cannot yet be avoided, and do so with transparency, care, and evidence.
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An in-depth look at the Paris Agreement, exploring its goals, how it works, key criticisms, and what it means for global climate action and policy.
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Is climate change real? These landmark scientific reports, involving thousands of experts worldwide, offer overwhelming evidence. Send to anyone who is in doubt.
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If you’ve ever sat through a sustainability presentation, you’ll know how quickly the human meaning can disappear. We talk about carbon credits as if they’re a neat accounting unit: a tonne here, a tonne there, all filed away under targets, timelines, and reporting frameworks. But a carbon credit is never just a number. It’s a mechanism that moves resources and attention across the world, and those flows land in real places: a village deciding whether to protect forest or sell timber, a family breathing less smoke in a one-room home, a community negotiating what “progress” should look like on their own terms.
Carbon credits are measured in tonnes; each carbon credit represents one metric tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e) reduced, or removed, but their consequences are felt in lives and landscapes. Understanding carbon credits requires more than market mechanics; it requires understanding the human and environmental impact they finance
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