Initiatives are underway to address integrity and scale in the voluntary carbon market (VCM). These international efforts to establish high-quality carbon market standards need to succeed to build confidence and move the market forward. In this special episode, President of the Climate Action Reserve Craig Ebert will discuss the work of these initiatives and how the Reserve continues to support scale and integrity by developing GHG accounting standards that achieve real emissions reductions, benefit communities, and support sustainable development goals (SDGs).

You may have heard the term 'biochar' thrown around in recent climate conversations but may not know the carbon in biochar resists degradation and can hold carbon in soils for hundreds to thousands of years. In this episode, our Reserve in-house expert and Director of Nature-Based Solutions Jon Remucal, and CEO of Pacific Biochar Josiah Hunt will explore the potential uses of biochar, its ability to bring co-benefits to communities, and what a biochar project may look like under Climate Action Reserve's upcoming U.S. and Canada Biochar Protocol.

The benefits of offsets go beyond emissions reductions and have historically provided new environmental, social, and economic opportunities for local and rural communities. These co-benefits can touch on many aspects of community livelihoods: biodiversity conservation, sustainable agriculture, water conservation and management, and social equity and justice. In this episode, Ana Moreno, Coordinator of Climate Change at MiAMBIENTE, will share experiences from Panama on how carbon project design and evaluation can support the inclusion of locally impacted communities and provide greater co-benefits.