vcs
30 May 2013
VCS Names William Ferretti COO/CFO
(Barcelona, Spain) – Today, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) announced the promotion of William Ferretti to the dual-role of Chief Operating and Financial Officer. Mr. Ferretti had previously ...
redd+
23 May 2013
VCS Event: Bridging the REDD+ Gap from Projects to Programs
Please join us at Carbon Expo for a side event on government and private sector efforts to scale up to first-of-their-kind integrated jurisdictional REDD+ programs.
methodology
26 April 2013
CDM Vehicle Efficiency Methodology Revised to Include Mobile Machinery
VCS has approved a revision of CDM methodology AMS-III.BC, Emission reductions through improved efficiency of vehicle fleets. VMR0004: Revisions to AMS-III.BC to Include Mobile Machinery, v1.0 (developed by
jnr
17 April 2013
Jurisdictional REDD+ Branches Out
Dear colleagues, There’s lots of news to share with you, so I’ll just get right to it. Thanks to a $1.4 million grant by Norway’s International Climate and Forest Initiative ...
carbon credits
5 April 2013
Norway to Back ‘Breakthrough’ JNR Framework
By Carbon Finance Online The Norwegian government is to invest around $1.4 million to pilot a “breakthrough” jurisdictional and nested (JNR) avoided deforestation framework,...
carbon markets
4 April 2013
Nitrous Oxide Offsets Methodology Will Let Farmers Take Part in Carbon Markets
By Jeannine Anderson (Public Power Daily) The Electric Power Research Institute announced yesterday the approval of a methodology it developed with Michigan State University...
jnr
4 April 2013
Norway and VCS Team Up to Support Jurisdictional REDD+
(Washington, D.C.) – A major investment by the Norwegian government will soon allow countries and jurisdictions to scale up their forest conservation and emission reduction efforts by using the ...
vcs
3 April 2013
VCS Hires Former Bunge Executive for Brazil Post
By Marcelo Teixeira (Reuters) VCS has hired the former head of Bunge Environmental Markets in Brazil, Sandro Marostica, to lead its new office in...
vcs
3 April 2013
VCS Announces New Brazil Director
(São Paulo, Brazil) –Today, the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) announced the hiring of Sandro Marostica as the new VCS Director for Brazil. Mr. Marostica, who is based in São ...
carbon markets
27 March 2013
OAG’s Flawed Process Produces Inaccurate Report
(Victoria, B.C.) – Today, the British Columbia Office of the Auditor General (OAG) released a flawed report that calls into question the carbon neutrality claims of the provincial government. ...