This event seeks to minimize the environmental impacts generated, reduce the carbon footprint as much as possible, and mitigate environmental damage. Verra Staff in Attendance: Susana Velez Haller, Regional Representative, Latin America and the Caribbean
African Energy Week (AEW) is the African Energy Chamber’s annual event, uniting African energy leaders, global investors and executives from across the public and private sector for four days of intense dialogue on the future of the African energy industry. Verra Staff in Attendance: Heather McEwan, Regional Representative Africa and the Middle East
Program Update: We’ve made the difficult but thoughtful decision to pause the India Biochar Academy. Verra Staff in Attendance: Kranav Sharma, Technical Manager, Industrial Innovation
The Carbon Forward Expo London will take place from 7-9 October 2025 and celebrate its tenth year analysing European and global compliance and voluntary carbon markets. Over three information-packed days, we’ll bring you leading experts, thought-provoking content, trailblazing organisations, lively discussions, and innovative thinking across the compliance, voluntary, removal, and renewable energy markets. Verra Staff
Following the success of its previous edition, the Chile Carbon Forum returns in 2025 as the benchmark event for carbon market development in the country. This new edition will bring together industry leaders, carbon market experts, government agencies, and key stakeholders to analyze progress, challenges, and opportunities in a context of increasing regulation and new
Adam Daigneault and Spencer Plumb will review recent research using the Global Timber Model to quantify carbon leakage from forest conservation and management projects across the globe, indicating that current one-size-fits-all leakage discounts oversimplify the market and carbon dynamics behind robust leakage accounting. Verra Staff in Attendance: Spencer Plumb, Senior Manager, Forest Management Innovation
As one of the world’s 20 largest economies, Indonesia faces the dual challenge of promoting economic growth while ensuring environmental sustainability. To address this, the Indonesia Sustainability Forum (ISF) was established in 2023 as a collaborative platform to catalyze investments and actions that promote decarbonization and sustainable development. In 2024, ISF rebranded itself as the
Verra staff speaking: Spencer Plumb, Senior Manager, Carbon Forest Management Innovation. CIFB helps large scale corporations to develop a strategy on the value of investments in forestry and biodiversity, to reach a net zero future.
Verra staff speaking: Susana Velez-Haller, Regional Representative, Latin America and the Caribbean. Verra was invited to speak on biodiversity as an asset, addressing the incentives and challenges to scaling conservation credits. This engagement reflects Verra’s role in supporting high-integrity approaches to conservation finance in the carbon market space.
Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, Regional Representative Asia and the Pacific. The 2025 Forum will convene senior leaders from government, finance, and industry to strengthen Asia–Pacific carbon markets, accelerate investment, and advance the region’s net zero transition.
Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, Regional Representative Asia and the Pacific. Aligning with Malaysia’s chairmanship of ASEAN, the theme for this year’s forum is "Empowering Regional Climate Actions through the ASEAN Common Carbon Framework". The 3rd MCMF aims to facilitate the development of a vibrant and sustainable carbon market ecosystem through knowledge sharing from
On Thursday, October 16, at 11:00 am ET, Verra and Perennial (external) will be hosting a webinar to provide an overview of the new digital soil mapping (DSM) tool in the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program. The tool, VT0014 Estimating Organic Carbon Stocks Using Digital Soil Mapping, v1.0, was released in August and facilitates the
Verra staff speaking: Ian Kuwahara, Director Energy and Industrial Innovation. Verra will join a campfire session on key quantification elements of engineered carbon removals, including technologies such as DACCS, BECCS, CCU, biochar, and enhanced weathering. The session contributes to ongoing technical discussions on how to robustly measure climate benefits from emerging carbon removal approaches.
Verra staff speaking: Mandy Rambharos, CEO (virtually joining the panel), Heather McEwan, Regional Representative Africa and the Middle East. The Carbon Markets Africa Summit 2025 in Johannesburg will explore Africa's role in the global carbon markets! Verra is proud to be part of these conversations. Africa is key to the future of climate finance. Verra’s
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Verra staff speaking: Valeria Enciso, Senior Program Officer, Market Relations. Our Diploma in Carbon Markets includes an introduction to all the elements associated with carbon markets, along with basic content on Emissions Trading Systems (ETS), carbon taxes, and the voluntary carbon market, using a participatory and interactive approach. The program is designed to respond to
Verra staff speaking: Julianne Baroody, Senior Director, Certification. Deforestation currently contributes 12 to 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, and addressing it is critical to mitigating climate change. Julie Baroody will address the carbon crediting paradigm for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD).
Verra staff speaking: Liz Guinessey, Manager, Food and Blue Carbon Innovation. Climate change is driving increasing risks of disturbances to forest carbon in many regions of the world. Successful nature-based climate solutions in forests require durability and robust, evidence-based mechanisms like buffer pools, which are urgently needed. Anderegg will present a suite of his recent
Connect with Verra at Trellis Impact 2025: Bloom, VERGE, and GreenFin Join Verra and other climate leaders at Trellis Impact, a three-track event running from October 28–30 at the San Jose Convention Center. Across Bloom, VERGE, and GreenFin, this convening brings together innovators, investors, and implementers to accelerate nature-based and climate-smart solutions. Verra will contribute thought leadership
Verra is pleased to participate in the upcoming webinar, “Proving Soil Carbon at Scale: AgreenaCarbon’s Landmark Verra Verification,” hosted by Agreena on 28 October 2025. This webinar marks a milestone for Verra’s VM0042 Methodology for Improved Agricultural Land Management (IALM)—highlighting how one of Europe’s largest soil carbon platforms is leveraging this framework to scale high-integrity
Verra staff speaking: Win Sim Tan, Senior Director, Regional Representative Asia and the Pacific (speaking remotely). The annual flagship exhibitions of the energy industry, Energy Taiwan and Net-Zero Taiwan, will take place from October 29-31, 2025, at Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1 (TaiNEX 1). Co-organized by TAITRA and GESA (Green Energy and Sustainability Alliance)