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Carbon Credit Ratings, A Symptom and Not a Solution
Carbon credit rating agencies have only recently emerged as a precondition for institutional capital for assessing and making decisions on projects.
Not Material At This Juncture
Why Malaysia’s first wave of insurance climate disclosures reads like a compliance exercise, and what that costs us
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Hours of Cold Rain and Calm Silence
It rained the whole 3 hours we were on the páramo. Not hard, just a fine steady sprinkle that you stop noticing after a while, until it becomes part of the quiet rather than an interruption to it
Carbon Credit Ratings, A Symptom and Not a Solution
Carbon credit rating agencies have only recently emerged as a precondition for institutional capital for assessing and making decisions on projects.
Not Material At This Juncture
Why Malaysia’s first wave of insurance climate disclosures reads like a compliance exercise, and what that costs us
The Thousand Dollar Tonne and the Ten Dollar Credit.
A publication paper by Stanford economists has put a price on climate damage per tonne of CO2. The voluntary carbon market may not ready for what that number means.
The US$14 Credit and the US$36 Credit Are the Same Tonne of Carbon. The Difference Is a Government Signature.
Carbon Forward Asia revealed what the market already suspects but few are willing to say out loud. The single biggest variable in carbon credit pricing is not quality, not methodology, not technology. It is whether a government has built the infrastructure to sign.
Everyone Wants Blue Carbon Credits. Almost Nobody Can Deliver Them.
The entire history of blue carbon credit issuance would not satisfy the annual offset requirement of a single large airline preparing for CORSIA Phase 1 compliance in 2028.
Why Carbon Market Pay Polluters Instead of Penalizing Them
Something strange is happening in global carbon markets. Systems designed to make pollution expensive are, in many cases, making pollution profitable. The very industries these markets were meant to constrain have found ways to turn them into revenue streams.
The Sacred Obligation. Why Protecting Allah’s Earth is the Path to Jannah
A reflection for the first Friday of 2026, on environmental stewardship as ibadah, and why every effort to conserve and restore Allah’s creation is a deed written for eternity. Have you ever noticed that if you rearrange the letters in “earth,” you get “heart”?
Global Mangrove Alliance - Malaysia Chapter Reflects on 2025
As 2025 draws to a close, the Global Mangrove Alliance-Malaysia Chapter takes a moment to look back at a year that brought us closer to what we set out to do. We have always believed that Malaysia’s mangroves are too vital and too threatened to be protected through fragmented efforts.