Leveraging Voluntary Carbon Markets to Fund Nature-based Solutions.
2025 was a turnaround year for the voluntary carbon market (VCM), entering a period of stabilization following the sharp contraction that began in 2022. While overall market value declined in 2024 amid falling issuances, pricing for transacted credits remained relatively resilient, indicating that demand is consolidating around a narrower subset of higher-quality credits, rather than leaving the market entirely.
Affordability Is All You Need
The U.S. power system is entering a period of rapid load growth driven by electrification, economic expansion, and AI-related data center development. Simultaneously, high cost-of-living is a central regulatory and political issue that constrains rate cases, limiting new build.
In this environment, affordability has become a binding constraint, selecting which capacity resources scale and earn durable returns.
Primer: Carbon Removal
Global discourse on decarbonization largely focuses on carbon conservation1—reducing or eliminating fossil fuel energy consumption in various applications.