Press Releases

January 2012: ACR Initiates Approval of World’s First Carbon Offset Methodology for Deltaic Wetland Restoration

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

ACR Newsletters

ACR Summer Newsletter 2011

ACR Spring Newsletter 2011

ACR Winter Newsletter 2011

ACR Spring Newsletter 2010

ACR Summer Newsletter 2010

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