As the climate and ESG agenda occupies more space in the strategic decisions of companies, understanding and contributing to their challenges regarding climate change and other ESG topics becomes an increasingly complex task. The topic is becoming a transversal agenda, appearing from daily operations to Board of Directors meetings. Therefore, a trajectory of evolution in […]

Brazil’s six biomes – Amazon, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal – contain around 20% of the world’s biodiversity and 12% of the planet’s freshwater reserves. This diversity is responsible for the quantity and quality of several ecosystem services on which society depends to function, such as climate regulation, maintenance of air and water […]

WayCarbon, in partnership with the Centre D’Études Avancées en Education et Développement Durable/CAESE-CAEDD, organised the meeting on “Social Vulnerability, Climate Risk, and the Challenges of Resilience Policies in Brazil,” which took place on April 21st at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO Paris) as part of the International Conference on Climate Risk, […]

The first writings on Corporate Social Responsibility appeared in the United States in the 1950s, with the publication of the book “Social responsibilities of the businessman”, by Howard Bowen¹. In the following decades, the importance of the theme grew and gained more strength, especially from the 1990s onwards.  If before it was presented almost as […]

Carbon markets have been growing significantly in recent years worldwide. The voluntary market surpassed the US$ 2 billion mark in 2022 (FOREST TRENDS’ ECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE, 2022). In the same period, the regulated market reached 23% of global emissions, equivalent to 12 GtCO2e (WORLD BANK, 2022). In the voluntary market, carbon credits generated by projects to […]