COMMENT: 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.
Read MoreCOP30: COMMENT – We’re at a critical juncture for nature-based solutions. Our biggest risk now is delay
The newly launched Tropical Forest Forever Facility is creating a multi-billion dollar investment stream for tropical forest protection with a guaranteed share for Indigenous and local communities, even as conservation groups warn that emerging Article 6.4 rules risk sidelining nature-based solutions by imposing permanence requirements that could effectively exclude forests, soils, and blue carbon from the forthcoming global carbon market.
Read MoreCOP30: COMMENT – The Paris era has arrived. Carbon markets must align, or be left behind
As COP opens in Brazil, Gold Standard is the first major independent carbon standard to fully align its methodologies with the Paris Agreement — a move that cements integrity, safeguards market confidence, and signals that credible climate action under the Paris framework is no longer optional but essential.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Oil and gas producers must deliver CO2 storage – or pay up
EU member states must align around harmonised, capacity-linked penalties to compel oil and gas producers to deliver the CO2 storage capacity they themselves have previously supported.
Read MoreCOMMENT: CORSIA is charting a new course for financing high quality climate action
With scalable low-carbon flight technologies still years away, the aviation sector is relying on CORSIA to bridge the gap to net zero – an effort now constrained by limited credit supply, financing and political risks, and the need for stronger methodologies and insurance mechanisms to unlock investment and restore confidence in high-quality reduction and avoidance credits.
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