Ecosystem Marketplace’s State of the VCM 2023 indicated that credits from projects with at least one co-benefit certification had a 78% price premium compared to projects without any co-benefit certification. Looking exclusively at Verra’s VCS, the largest project standard, showed that credits from these projects with co-benefits had a 92% premium in 2022, compared to a 69% premium in 2021.
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How – and Why – Impact Inside Uses Real-Time Project Data in Storytelling
Reliance on static reports and delayed audits creates project risk and skepticism among project investors and others who crave concrete evidence that projects are delivering. For such stakeholders, use of real-time data promises a much more transparent view..
How we use AI to make quality project delivery easier
The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has challenges to overcome if it is to rapidly scale. This necessitates providing proponents and stakeholders with the best tools to help raise the bar for consistently high quality delivery of NbS projects…
Press Kit
Download as PDF Company Origins Impact Inside was originally created to meet the demanding quality requirements of technical carbon project consultancy EP Carbon, its first Certified Partner. For more than a decade, EP Carbon has been developing nature-based..
What is the true potential value of the voluntary carbon market? And what will it take to get there?
How can the VCM’s legitimate firms and projects credibly signal their integrity and establish an unassailable level of trust?
Carbon Project Fraud and the Need for Better Project Management Solutions
In September we shared our thoughts following C-Quest Capital’s troubled cookstove initiative. Just this last week, we also read Matt Levine’s analysis on Bloomberg Law to CQC’s fraudulent claims and the inherently opaque and challenging nature of the..
New Report from Ecosystem Marketplace Highlights Importance of Project Co-Benefits in Attracting Demand, Higher Prices
New research published by Ecosystem Marketplace indicates that project co-benefits, which are additional environmental and social benefits beyond carbon sequestration, are driving higher credit prices.