The avoidance of CO2 emissions that would otherwise have occurred under a Business As Usual (BAU) scenario. Examples include avoided deforestation programs, where deforestation is the norm in a given location, and an investor undertakes a project to protect an area of forest from clearance.
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27 October 2025
Demand for eligible carbon credits is set to grow under the UN’s Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) as airlines’ CO2 emissions continue to rebound from 2020’s...
23 October 2025
The global aviation industry faces a looming shortage of carbon credits to meet operators’ obligations under the CORSIA carbon market.
21 October 2025
The term ‘nature-based solutions’ encompasses a wide range of activities that aim to work with nature to resolve societal issues, ranging from climate change to coastal erosion, flooding, biodiversity loss and poor air quality in cities.
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