COMMENT: 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.
Read MoreCOMMENT: What the Koko collapse means for carbon finance and clean cooking
Carbon credits remain the best mechanism to finance and deliver clean-cooking appliances to households across Sub-Saharan Africa, argues Peter Scott, CEO and Founder of cookstove developer Burn.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Why CORSIA’s next phase depends on insurance working at scale
As CORSIA moves toward mandatory compliance for most countries, insurance is emerging as critical infrastructure to unlock carbon credit supply and enable the aviation market to scale, writes Phoebe Thomas, CFC, for Women in Carbon.
Read MoreCOMMENT: 2026 Carbon Credit Forecast Calls for Greater Diversification as VCM Scales
The voluntary carbon market is heading into 2026 as a mature, pragmatic instrument for delivering credible net zero strategies at scale.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Restoring Confidence in Carbon Credits: How Dynamic Baselines Bring Rigour to Avoidance
The voluntary carbon market’s credibility has been undermined by reliance on static, assumption-based deforestation baselines that over-credit avoided emissions, but can be restored through dynamic, data-driven baselines that continuously measure real-world outcomes using scientific controls, advanced satellite data, and adaptive modelling.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Do Carbon Credits Get Stale? Amazon Says Vintage Doesn’t Define Quality
Amazon’s Head of Carbon Neutralization argues that a carbon credit’s value depends on its underlying quality and impact rather than its vintage, with older vintages often arising from slow but necessary measurement and verification cycles, meaning buyers should focus on methodological integrity and real-world outcomes instead of assuming newer credits are inherently better.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Strengthening, Not Discarding, Nature-based Carbon Credits
High-integrity natural climate solutions (NCS) carbon credits are essential to effective, efficient and equitable climate policy, including under Paris Article 6.4, write eleven scientists and researchers in response to a recent Nature comment.
Read MoreCOMMENT: COPs Need a Regular Science Track – Not a Seven-Year Science Lag
At COP30 in Belem, negotiators have again been asked to shape the planet’s future using climate science that does not reflect latest high-quality research. The problem is not the evidence itself. It is the way we organise it for global climate diplomacy.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Scale high integrity forest carbon markets
Access to high integrity carbon market finance could reduce emissions from HFLD regions; prompt decisions can accelerate progress.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Turning carbon into capital – Lessons for Asia and the way forward
Only greater transparency, standardisation and financial-market discipline can unlock the potential of carbon as a true investable asset class, argues Bastien Declercq from Marex.
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