Reducing Bankability Challenges for Nature-Based Solutions
Understanding the financing challenges for nature-based solutions points to solvable problems to improve the quality and integrity of...
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Alex Prather
- Feb 6
- 8 min
The Future We Want: How Emission Reduction Credits Can Help Build the Net Zero 2050 Economy
High-quality emission reduction-based carbon credits are essential to carbon markets and the path to a net-zero economy if used...
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Alex Prather
- Jan 17
- 7 min
Emission Reduction Credits are Ready for a Makeover
As grid-connected renewable energy-based carbon credits see their way out of the market, a new wave of emission reduction technologies...
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Alex Prather
- Dec 23, 2022
- 6 min
The Looming Carbon Credit Supply Crisis: Shifting from Reductions to Removals
There’s a looming carbon credit supply crisis, and the carbon markets aren’t ready for it. Here’s the TL;DR: demand is expected to keep...
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Alex Prather
- Dec 13, 2022
- 4 min
Time for evolution or the start of a revolution? The carbon markets are feeling some growing pains
Carbon markets may serve as a powerful mechanism to help the global economy decarbonize. Still, they are far from perfect, and this past...
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Alex Prather
- Aug 11, 2022
- 9 min
A Tale of Two Carbon Markets: The Evolution Phase
This article is the second in a series of posts on the history of carbon markets. The first post on the origin stories of voluntary and...
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Alex Prather
- Jul 19, 2022
- 18 min
The Carbon Markets Jargon Decoder
Non-exhaustive, ever-growing. Jargon and acronyms got you down? Have no fear, the jargon decoder is here. This is a rolling list of...
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Alex Prather
- Jul 6, 2022
- 6 min
A Tale of Two Carbon Markets: The Origins
Originally published on FootPrintcoalition.com In the search for a way to profitably reduce greenhouse gas emissions, no approach is as...
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Alex Prather
- Jun 13, 2022
- 7 min
Some Initial Thoughts on Carbon Markets and Carbon Removal
One of my top priorities for this summer is to pressure test some intial biases and perspectives to develop a far more nuanced...
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Alex Prather
- Jun 5, 2022
- 4 min
A Summer in the World of Carbon Markets
For those in the climate space, carbon markets experienced a surge of interest this past year that took many by surprise, myself...
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