Carbon Finance

 
12 Mar 2025

International Women’s Day 2025: Meet the women behind the Asha Reforestation Project

EcoAct, in partnership with its local partner Tomorrow’s Foundation, is developing the Asha reforestation project, which aims to revitalise unproductive and degraded lands, improve carbon absorption through soil, increase biodiversity, and enhance the livelihoods of local communities. This International Women’s Day, we sat down with the women at the heart of the Asha project: Margarita ...
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3 Mar 2023

Protecting the endangered wildlife of Borneo’s last peatlands

Peatland ecosystems play a vital role in combatting climate change as they take up and store unmatched quantities of carbon, provide refuge for rare wildlife and contribute to rural livelihoods. Despite all these benefits, they are at a high risk of disappearing. For World Wildlife Day, discover the success story of the Katingan Mentaya Project. ...
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31 Oct 2019

CORSIA: Preparing for take off

As the aviation sector readies itself for CORSIA, we take a look at current progress on deciding eligible offsets and how airlines can prepare themselves for a 2021 take off. What is CORSIA? By 2020, international aviation emissions are projected to be 70% higher than 2005 levels according to the EU, and could even reach ...
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13 Sep 2019

Best Carbon Offsetting Project awarded to Cookstove project in Sudan

EcoAct’s Sudan Improved Cookstove Project has today been announced as Best Carbon Offsetting Project in the Environmental Finance 10th Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Awards. The awards are selected by carbon market industry participants who vote for the projects and companies that they believe are driving change in the world of voluntary carbon finance. EcoAct’s Sudan ...
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13 Nov 2018

Clean Water Saves Lives

For many people living in Ethiopia, access to clean water is not available outside of cities. This means that people collect water from rivers and lakes and risk catching water-borne diseases such as cholera or typhoid.
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