Call for input to co-create definitive, consistent threshold for high-quality carbon credits
Integrity Council launches public consultation on Core Carbon Principles Proposals to establish a definitive and consistent global benchmark for high-integrity carbon credits, published for consultation today, aim to build trust and unlock urgently-needed...
The Integrity Council’s work with Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs)
This Q&A is with Daniel Ortega-Pacheco, Co-Chair of the Integrity Council’s Expert Panel and Director of the Center for Public Policy Development at ESPOL Polytechnic University in Ecuador. The Integrity Council fully recognizes that there is no path to 1.5degrees...
How to Build a High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Market – Innovate4Climate Fireside Chat
Fireside chat: Our chair Annette Nazareth was interviewed by Reuters’ editor-at-large, Axel Threlfall, for the World Bank Group’s Innovate4Climate, where they discussed 'How to Build a High-Integrity Voluntary Carbon Market'. https://youtu.be/VsddHadUidw
Revised timeline for public consultation
The public consultation on the Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Framework will launch in July 2022 and run for 60 days. The Integrity Council continues to work at pace to set and enforce a definitive global threshold standard for high-quality carbon credits...
Google.org gives $2m to Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market to help VCM accelerate a just transition to 1.5 degrees
21 April 2022, London, United Kingdom Today, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (Integrity Council) announces a USD $2m grant from Google.org to support its work to ensure the voluntary carbon market (VCM) accelerates a just transition to 1.5...
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market appoints new IPLC leadership
Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market appoints FSC Indigenous Foundation Managing Director and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad to its Governing Board and Distinguished Advisory Group 19 April 2022 – The Integrity...
Integrity Council’s Chair Annette Nazareth Speaks At Economist Impact’s Sustainability Week
Earlier this March, Integrity Council Chair Annette Nazareth spoke at Economist Impact Events’ Sustainability Week, where she discussed the importance of definitive global threshold standards for the voluntary carbon market. The event was an excellent opportunity to...
Initial statement from Annette Nazareth, Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market
Initial statement from Annette Nazareth, Chair of the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market The IPCC Report shows how desperately urgent the mitigation imperative is. To keep 1.5ºC within reach, we need every tool available to us working as...
Passing of Hugh Sealy, Integrity Council Co-Chair
Memorial service for Hugh Sealy, Integrity Council Co-Chair, on 1 April 2022 A memorial service will be held on 1 April for Hugh Sealy, Integrity Council Co-Chair. The service will take place at White Hall Lodge, Barbados at 10am local time (10am ET, 3pm UK, 4pm CET,...
Integrity Council Announces Timetable for New Voluntary Carbon Market Standards
Core Carbon Principles and Assessment Frameworkwill be issued in Q3, following public consultation launching in May "If we build high integrity, scale will follow.” Hugh Sealy, Co-Chair of the Integrity Council London, 16 March 2022 – The Integrity Council for the...
Publications
Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Phase 2 Final Report
July 2021
Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets Phase 1 Final Report
January 2021