Nature-based carbon accounting: How “integrity” has evolved, and what still matters

Opinion piece: Nature-based carbon projects have operated for more than 25 years. Early assumptions that greenhouse gas accounting would be simple have proven wrong. What has occurred instead is a…

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‘World leading’ land-based project to improve water quality on the Great Barrier Reef over 25 years will help drive action at scale

Media release: The construction phase of a major new project dedicated to improving water quality on The Great Barrier Reef has just been completed at a gully rehabilitation project in the Bowen River catchment in north Queensland.

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Helping to mitigate climate change and avert the extinction crisis: Investment in nature-based land management projects holds the key

Opinion piece: The way we use our land, or rather, ‘exploit’ our land, is one of the greatest contributors to carbon emissions and extinctions worldwide. Nature-based solutions harness the power of nature to restore and maintain ecosystems in ways that increase their resilience.

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Explanatory statement in response to the story in The Australian on Monday 19 May 2025

Statement: This statement is intended to provide further context and explanation to the article that first appeared in the online edition of The Australian under the title, ‘Carbon war: it’s the offsets firm versus the green activists’ shortly after 10pm on Monday 19 May 2025.

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A major leap in the evolution of biodiversity markets as Accounting for Nature® takes over NaturePlus® Standard

Media release: Nature and biodiversity markets worldwide have taken a crucial step forward with Accounting for Nature® taking on the role of independent administrator of the NaturePlus® biodiversity standard.

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Harnessing markets for conservation impact

Speech: 2024 ALCA Private Land Conservation Conference. While we discuss all the amazing innovative ideas for financing nature repair and building a nature-positive economy, we have not explained the concept of the contract we are in with the environment, which has been supplying its ecosystem services at ever increasing rates to us since time immemorial.

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Ground-breaking Reef Credit method for grazing land management approved and released by Eco-Markets Australia

Media release: The Grazing Land Management (GLM) method, developed via a partnership between Verterra Ecological
Engineering, AgriProve and GreenCollar for use under the Reef Credit Scheme, has been approved and released
by Eco-Markets Australia.

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