Tag: Carbon Offset

Investing in Brazil

Brazil Amazon River

Green Gold

Why Brazil’s Voluntary Carbon Market Is Turning Heads Abroad eyesonbrasil Amsterdam, August 12, 2026 – Picture a stretch of Amazon rainforest the size of a small European country, standing because someone, somewhere, paid to keep it that way. That’s the quiet transaction at the heart of Brazil’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) — and it’s quickly…
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The Price of a Ton of Air

How Carbon Credits Work, and Why Brazil Holds the World’s Best Hand eyesonbrasil Somewhere in the Brazilian state of Acre, a hectare of rainforest that didn’t get cut down this year just became a financial instrument. It has a serial number, a registry entry, and a buyer somewhere in Rotterdam or São Paulo who will…
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Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim

The Carbon Offset Conundrum

Is REDD+ a Green Miracle or a “License to Pollute”? eyesonindonesia In the boardroom of a multinational oil giant and in the deep canopy of the Indonesian rainforest, two very different conversations are happening about the same thing: REDD+. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) was designed as a bridge between the industrial…
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