The Amazon rainforest faced another difficult year. Despite bright spots, humanity is still asking too much of the forest. One company says it has an answer.

March 13, 2025

Indigenous leaders on the island of Palawan recently signed a landmark deal to establish the country’s first locally owned forest carbon project. The project aims to halt deforestation through the sale of carbon credits

March 6, 2025

Companies that buy carbon credits are doing more to tackle their climate footprints than companies that don’t, a new report finds.

October 10, 2023

As dangerous heatwaves shatter records around the world, a new study provides the most comprehensive review yet of how to stop deforestation — a major cause of climate-warming greenhouse gases, second only to fossil fuel emissions.

August 16, 2023

From “blue carbon” to “ecosystem services,” environmental jargon is everywhere. Conservation International looks to make sense of it in an occasional explainer series. In this installment, we explore the role “HFLDs,” play in storing climate-warming carbon.

March 8, 2023

A recent article claims that buying carbon offsets for your flight doesn't help the climate crisis. This conclusion is bafflingly wrong: Paying to protect an area of forest to offset the climate footprint of your flight does in fact — demonstrably and verifiably — help.

March 1, 2023

Business leaders recognize the urgency of the climate crisis — and are taking action, according to a new report.

January 12, 2023

According to a Conservation International expert, carbon markets offer two things we need to stop climate breakdown: speed and reach.

November 9, 2021

The pandemic cratered ecotourism in Africa last year, depriving local communities of life-sustaining revenues. However, the people of Chyulu Hills in southeast Kenya were able to tell a different story — and make a number of investments toward their futures. Here's how.

April 13, 2021

The market for carbon offsets must be scaled up globally to make a sufficient dent in climate change, according to a new report that lays out a path toward a high-quality global carbon market.

February 3, 2021

Despite dire headlines, tropical forests are still among our best allies to fight climate change, an expert explains.

March 6, 2020

Conservation International's finance expert extolls the importance of forest carbon credits to tackle the climate crisis.

February 22, 2020

Forest carbon credits ‘worse than nothing’? There’s more to this story

May 24, 2019

Human Nature breaks down what “REDD+” is and how it helps to conserve forests.

March 28, 2019