Press Releases and Announcements
March 2014: ACR Presents Annual Awards for Outstanding Environmental Achievements
March 2014: ACR Approves Expansion of Rice Sector Emissions Reduction Opportunities to the U.S. Mid-South
February 2014: ACR Approves Carbon Offset Methodology for Emissions Reductions from the Recycling of Transformer Oil
December 2013: Milestone Partnership Announced for Development of California Wetland Restoration Carbon Offset Methodology
October 2013: Conservation Partnership Celebrates First-of-a-Kind Carbon Offset Methodology and Innovative Prairie Preservation Project
September 2013: Air Resources Board Issues First California Compliance Offsets
August 2013: American Carbon Registry Issues First California Registry Offset Credits
June 2013: Green-e Climate Approves American Carbon Registry as Endorsed Offset Program
April 2013: ACR Presents Annual Awards for Outstanding Environmental Achievements
January 2013: 2012 Retrospective from the Director of the American Carbon Registry
December 2012: ACR Approved by Air Resources Board as an Offset Project Registry for the California Cap-and-Trade Program
November 2012: ACR Named the Most Widely Used Forest Carbon Standard in North America
October 2012: ACR Approves Landmark Carbon Offset Methodology for Emissions Reductions through Truck Stop Electrification
September 2012: ACR Approves First Offset Methodology for Deltaic Wetlands Restoration
September 2012: ACR Publishes Compliance Offset Supply Forecast for the California Cap-and-Trade Program
August 2012: ACR Announces Open Public Comment Period for Nested REDD+ Standard
July 2012: ACR Approves MSU-EPRI Methodology for Emissions Reductions from Agricultural N2O
May 2012: ACR Launches the First California Compliance-Ready Offset Project Registry
April 2012: ACR Presents Awards to Celebrate Environmental Accomplishments of Industry and Government Leaders
April 2012: ACR Goes West: Announces Golden State director, office, advisors and registry partnership
January 2012: ACR Initiates Approval of World’s First Carbon Offset Methodology for Deltaic Wetland Restoration
January 2012: ACR Letter from the Director
October 2011: Pinchot Institute Partners with ACR for Forest Health-Human Health Initiative
October 2011: ACR Approves Family Forests Offset Methodology
July 2011: ACR Recognized as Approved Offset Standard by International Carbon Reduction and Offset Alliance (ICROA)
June 2011: ACR Initiates Approval of Methodology for Reducing Rice Sector Emissions
April 2011: ACR Offsets Retired in First Ven Carbon Transaction
March 2011: ACR Presents Annual Awards for Outstanding Environmental Achievements
February 2011: ACR Awarded Runner-up "Best Registry Provider" in Environmental Finance Global Voluntary Carbon Market Survey
January 2011: Carbon Trade Exchange (CTX) Links with ACR
November 2010: ACR Approves Forest Carbon Risk Mitigation Product
November 2010: ACR approves Methodology for N2O Emissions Reductions from Changes in Fertilizer Management
September 2010: ACR approves IFM Methodology for U.S. Timberlands
August 2010: ANSI Partners with ACR for Greenhouse Gas Accreditation Program
May 2010: Christiana Figueres named Executive Secretary UNFCCC
May 2010: ACR Meets Requirements for Early Action Program
March 2010: ACR Approves New Methodology for the U.S. Oil & Natural Gas Sector
February 2010: GreenTrees is First Forestry Project Approved by American Carbon Registry
March 2009: American Carbon Registry releases forestry standard in anticipation of U.S. federal cap and trade bill
November 2008: Winrock International launches the American Carbon Registry
Interviews
ACR interviews Christian del Valle, director of environmental markets & forestry at BNP Paribas and ACR Advisory Council member, regarding the challenges for scaling up investments in REDD, April 2011
ACR interviews Winrock's Dr. Sandra Brown on the importance of and challenges for terrestrial carbon sequestration projects for climate change mitigation, September 2010
ACR interviews UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres on her vision for a global accord on climate change, May 2010
In the News
Ecosystem Marketplace: China Bets on Panda to Take a Bite Out of Land-Use Emissions (and Reduce Poverty), By: Molly Peters-Stanley, September 2010
Climate Change and the Developing World, By: Winrock International President and Chief Executive Officer Frank Tugwell, Monday Developments Magazine, September 2010
ACR Standard a top pick in the 2010 EcoSystem Marketplace State of the Forest Carbon Markets report, June 2010
Argus: Senate Bill Sees Big Role for Offsets, May 2010
Carbon Markets North America: ACR Guest Commentary “Offset investments in an uncertain regulatory environment” by: Nicholas Martin, January 2010
Environmental Finance: REDD supplement article “Seeing the Woods for the Trees” by: Sandra Brown and John Kadyszewski, November 2009
Carbon Finance: "Trading steps" by Wiley Barbour, October 2008
Portfolio.com: "Cap-and-Trade in the US", October 2008
Time: "Will the Environment Lose Out to the Economy?" by Bryan Walsh, October 2008
Time: "Going Green in Tough Times" October 2008
Trading Carbon: "Making the Grade" by Wiley Barbour and Julia Philipott, October 2008
Wall Street Journal: "Capping Carbon: Northeast Utilities Pay to Pollute, But Does That Matter?" by Keith Johnson, September 2008
Carbon Finance: "Under the Hammer" by Gloria Gonzales, September 2008
Point Carbon: "Interview: US pre-compliance VER buying on the rise" September 2008
Newsweek: "Explaining Carbon Offsets" by Paul Tolme, July 28th edition, page 55
Recorded Broadcasts
CNBC On-Air Debate regarding Cap & Trade: John Kadyszewski, Winrock International's American Carbon Registry and Margo Thorning, International Council for Capital Formation May 2009
Not Just Hot Air: EPA to Start Carbon Registry
American Carbon Registry founder Wiley Barbour speaks on NPR
3.12.2009
Carbon 101 Webinar: A Guide to the Emerging U.S. Carbon Markets and the Implications for Corporate Communications, co-hosted by the American Carbon Registry, Environmental Markets Association and Edelman.
3.5.2009
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