COMMENT: Why we should welcome Gabon’s big UNFCCC REDD+ issuance
Voluntary carbon market participants should look positively on the news that Gabon will soon come to market with an offering of 90 million tonnes of sovereign carbon credits, writes Federica Bietta of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations
Read MoreCOMMENT: The EU ETS is starting its own battle to survive the winter
The summer holidays are over. Carbon traders had a fun August in which EUA prices went up €22 and then went back down €22, but now the grown-ups are back from the beach and stuff’s getting real, writes Alessandro Vitelli.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Climate-positive agriculture: building a self-sustaining carbon sequestration ecosystem
Through working with recognised carbon certification organisations, as well as investing in the development of new and more effective protocols, we can accelerate the move towards climate-positive agriculture and champion farmers as key participants in the climate change solution, argues Mike Frank of agricultural solutions firm UPL Corporation.Â
Read MoreCOMMENT: The Rise of Co-Benefits
Co-benefits are slated to play a critical role in voluntary carbon markets, but only if they can evolve, writes David Chen, program development manager at ClimeCo.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Same old August for EU carbon prices… or is it?
European carbon prices have followed their now-traditional course in August by rising on the back of the 50% reduction in auction volumes. This has happened every year since 2008 – with one exception – and is pretty much baked in to trading strategy, writes Alessandro Vitelli.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Seeing the forest for the trees – How companies and countries can meet the challenge of REDD+
It is possible to scale the carbon markets fast and well, argues Carbon Growth Partners’ Charles Bedford. To do so, companies must stay focused on project quality, and countries must collaborate better. Â
Read MoreCOMMENT: Transparency holds the key to a $100 billion opportunity
Today’s voluntary carbon market (VCM) and the use of carbon credits to support net zero are at a crossroads. Embracing transparency offers a way forward, argues Tommy Ricketts of BeZero Carbon.
Read MoreCOMMENT: What will rising inflation do to the voluntary carbon market?
While higher inflation and slower economic growth may have short term temporary negative impacts on carbon credit prices, there are several structural reasons why we believe VCM credits are likely to remain resistant to long-term price declines and are in fact more likely to continue to rise in the medium to long-term, argue Respira’s CEO and co-founder Ana Haurie and advisor Joel Krueger.
Read MoreCOMMENT: A fistful of offsets: How the (wild) west was won
Critics comparing the voluntary carbon market to the wild west are missing the point and risk undermining decades of progress on climate change, argues Renat Heuberger, CEO and co-founder of South Pole.
Read MoreCOMMENT: ART board statement regarding the integrity of HFLD credits
The risks of non-additionality of conservatively-issued High Forest, Low Deforestation carbon credits pale in comparison to the risks of losing the world’s remaining expanses of intact forests, argues the board of ART TREES crediting programme in response to recent views that such credits should not be allowed for use to offset emissions by airlines under CORSIA because they are not additional.
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