Earth911 Podcast: Emergent’s Allan Traicoff on the LEAF Coalition and Business’ Role in Nature Protection

Staying within the Paris Climate Accord’s 1.5 degrees Celsius limit, at which potentially devastating climate changes will occur, requires ending deforestation before 2030. But as of 2020, the world was still losing about 38,600 square miles of forest annually. Meet Allan Traicoff, chief commercial officer at Emergent, a nonprofit that creates incentives for and connects businesses to natural climate solutions in countries that protect tropical rainforests. Emergent focuses on identifying “high-quality carbon credits,” which we discuss during this interview. Emergent launched the LEAF Coalition — a group of 20 global companies, the United Kingdom, Norway, and the United States — which has has facilitated more than $1.5 billion in emissions reduction demand funding to date. Allan explains the role of JREDD+ carbon credits, a brand new class of credits aimed at nations that…