Carbon markets have long been held up as efficient mechanisms to affordably achieve a safer climate future. By pricing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, allocating finance to climate-aligned activities, and incentivizing investment — to new technologies, key behaviors, and institutions — carbon markets promise to both protect our natural carbon sinks, such as forests, and remove the...Read More

American Farmland Trust and Sierra View Solutions release Agricultural Carbon Programs: From Chaos to Systems Change at the meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society annual conference in Des Moines, IA. Lead authors Michelle Perez, AFT Water Initiative Director and Robert Parkhurst, President of Sierra View Solutions will present their analysis of 22 agricultural carbon market programs and recommended changes that would help these programs succeed. Over the next decade, the...Read More