Each year, Environmental Finance holds a vote to identify leaders in the voluntary carbon market (VCM) and related markets, including project developers, traders, and service providers.

Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program, the world’s largest voluntary greenhouse gas (GHG) crediting program, has won the award for “Best GHG Crediting Programme” (formerly “Best Voluntary Carbon Standard”) eleven times since 2012. Additionally, the Verra Registry was voted “Best Registry Provider” every year since 2021 when this category was first introduced.

This year, we also ask that you vote for Verra’s Nature Framework in the “Best Crediting Innovation (Non-Carbon).” Released in October of 2024, the Nature Framework is an asset methodology under the Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) Program that will incentivize widespread investment in measurable conservation and restoration activities benefiting nature and people.

The survey is open through Friday, July 25. We hope you’ll consider voting (again) for Verra this year!

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Why Verra?

Verra is a leading standards setter for the voluntary carbon market. In 2024, the quality and integrity of Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) Program was validated when the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM) approved the program and several of its methodologies as meeting the Core Carbon Principles.

We earned this trust by relentlessly advancing innovation and progress in the carbon markets. Key highlights from our recent work:

  • We have continued to develop new pathways for climate finance and strengthen existing ones. We released a groundbreaking methodology for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and a comprehensive and robust new cookstoves methodology. We also started to operationalize our revolutionary methodology for forest conservation and took steps to strengthen our methodology for agricultural land management.
  • We helped broaden the reach and impact of the voluntary carbon market. We collaborated on an Article 6.2 Crediting Protocol aimed at supporting countries in their use of Article 6 to achieve their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and sustainable development goals.
  • We developed a new framework that will drive investment in nature conservation. Verra’s Nature Framework provides a robust and credible approach for quantifying biodiversity outcomes and generating Nature Credits.