COMMENT: Are Your Forest Carbon Projects Leaking?
Recently published research shows how estimates of leakage for forest carbon projects can be significantly improved, which is necessary for addressing an important integrity issue and building confidence in carbon markets as a tool for climate action.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Carbon Markets Cannot Claim Integrity While Excluding Women
As carbon markets undergo an integrity reset, treating women’s inclusion as a co-benefit is no longer enough – inclusive finance can help make their contributions measurable, verifiable, and central to the credibility of carbon projects.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Clean cookstoves are becoming a carbon market litmus test
Local communities must be put at the heart of clean cooking projects for them to generate credible carbon credits and fulfil their potential as one of the only climate measures that can be deployed fast and at scale in displacement settings.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Look Beyond Binaries for Climate Progress
Echoing A Tale of Two Cities, today’s climate transition is marked by both unprecedented progress and mounting headwinds, and overcoming false binaries will be critical to unlocking the capital and action needed at scale.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Solving the integrity paradox – Accessibility for all ARR project sizes
On Earth Day 2026, a new Gold Standard methodology challenges the “one-size-fits-all” approach to ARR projects, proposing a flexible framework that reconciles integrity with accessibility to unlock carbon finance.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Financial infrastructure will unlock institutional finance in CDR
Fears of buyer concentration in durable CDR are overstated: beneath the headlines, a more diverse corporate base is emerging, and with the right financial infrastructure, institutional capital can unlock the scale the market needs.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Article 6.4’s quiet calendar could shape the future of carbon markets
Article 6.4’s upcoming technical decisions on large-scale crediting, risk management, and reversal assessment will determine whether global carbon markets can scale a diverse portfolio of climate solutions or narrowly exclude key approaches like nature-based solutions.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Cultivating Integrity First – The Collaboration Behind Soil Carbon’s Market Rise
Four key themes helped move agricultural soil carbon from a nascent category to the high-integrity climate solution that it is today.
Read MoreCOMMENT: The voluntary carbon market – A useful tool we are making useless
The voluntary carbon market is not the solution to global climate change, but it is a valuable instrument that can help mobilise finance, support sustainable development, and contribute to mitigation – when properly understood and managed.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Beyond Offsets – Making Permanence the Foundation of Global Carbon Markets
Carbon markets should evolve to finance long-term ecological stewardship, not merely insure credits, argues Charles Bedford, Founder of Carbon Growth Partners and Professor at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
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