COMMENT: The Cost of Getting CBAM Wrong for Aluminium – and How to Get it Right
The competitiveness of Europe’s low-carbon aluminium industry is under serious threat from CBAM. Here’s how European policymakers can fix it. Â
Read MoreWORKING PAPER: Neutralisation Claims in the Era of Article 6
As Article 6 gains traction, a question emerges – is it acceptable that the same permanent CDR credit can be simultaneously co-claimed by a corporation and nation, without the need for a corresponding adjustment? In a new working paper, carbon market experts at the University of Oxford, Nasdaq, and AFRY Management Consulting, argue that yes, co-claiming for neutralisation ends is legitimate providing three additional principles are met.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Beyond Carbon – A Certification Co-designed with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
The draft “Beyond Carbon Benefits” certification under the Architecture for REDD+ Transactions marks a major shift in carbon markets by integrating social, cultural, biodiversity, and forest service co-benefits – co-designed with Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) – to ensure REDD+ initiatives are more equitable, inclusive, and effective beyond carbon accounting alone. Representatives from IPLC organisations explain why they chose to co-lead the design of a new certification, and how they think it represents a shift, both in terms of how forests are valued, and also how market instruments are designed.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Why the EU should hold the line on its Methane Regulation
At a critical point in its energy transition, the EU must resist deepening dependence on US LNG in exchange for tariff relief and instead stay the course on reducing gas demand and enforcing its Methane Regulation, which offers a strategic tool to boost climate action, energy security, and global market influence.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Buying time with carbon markets
As the US government retreats from climate action and undermines emissions policies, the rest of the world is advancing a global carbon economy that increasingly values nature-based carbon sinks, but mistrust in carbon accounting has devalued credits. Now, atmospheric monitoring technology offers a path to restoring market integrity, investment, and climate impact through more accurate, transparent verification.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Is the state of Germany’s land use sector a deal breaker for climate neutrality?
The climate targets in Germany’s land use sector (LULUCF) appear to be out of reach. However, abandoning targets for nature-based CO2 sinks would be equal to abandoning its climate neutrality goal, warns Milan Loose, who works as Policy Advisor on Negative Emissions at Bellona Deutschland.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Building on BECCS – The Blueprint for a Gigaton-Scale CDR Future
Elimini President Laurie Fitzmaurice gave the keynote speech at this week’s Carbon Unbound 2025 conference in New York. Here is a summary of her remarks.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Demystifying the Link between Article 6 and the Voluntary Carbon Market
A key takeaway from recent discussions on the link between Article 6 and the VCM is the persistent confusion surrounding Corresponding Adjustments (CAs), particularly regarding project eligibility, conditional NDCs, and the limited supply of CAs, with concerns emerging over pricing distortions, voluntary buyer behaviour, and the need for clearer frameworks to ensure environmental integrity and mobilise finance at scale.
Read MoreCOMMENT: And Yet it Burns – Climate Change, Galileo, and the late Pope Francis
It is Friday, June 14, 2019 and I am in the Vatican waiting for the Pope to make his entrance.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Ratings key to avoid bad carbon credits flooding compliance markets
To ensure integrity and effectiveness in compliance carbon markets, BeZero Carbon CEO and co-founder Tommy Rickets argues that governments must go beyond methodology-based approvals by mandating transparent, independent project-level carbon ratings, which will incentivise quality, minimise risk, and direct climate finance toward high-impact outcomes.
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