{"id":176524,"date":"2025-10-03T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176524\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T03:10:13","slug":"co2-credit-traders-brace-for-huge-growth-as-carbon-market-stages-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/176524\/","title":{"rendered":"CO2 Credit Traders Brace for \u2018Huge\u2019 Growth as Carbon Market Stages Comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The market for carbon credits, which just a few years ago was brought to its knees by allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-12-18\/what-s-greenwashing-how-can-i-steer-clear-of-it-quicktake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">greenwashing<\/a>, is quietly staging a comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In the first six months of 2025, companies used more carbon credits to offset emissions than at any point before, according to first-half figures compiled by MSCI Carbon Markets. The data, which goes back as far as 2010, also shows that about $10 billion of capital was publicly committed to financing the generation of carbon credits in the first half of the year. That\u2019s more than three times as much as during the same period in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The market for carbon credits, which just a few years ago was brought to its knees by allegations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1487,50690,891,1397,80,5149,78724,386,10182,306,90,17271,1892,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-176524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-bloombergnef","10":"tag-china","11":"tag-environment","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-green","14":"tag-guy-turner","15":"tag-japan","16":"tag-microsoft-corp","17":"tag-regulation","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-southeast-asia","20":"tag-taxes","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}