COMMENT: Carbon Market Integrity – Ensuring Durable Removals Under the Paris Agreement
The co-Chairs of the Article 6.4 Methodological Expert Panel invite stakeholders to review a draft reversal standard intended to deliver credible removals – and to attend a webinar on Sep. 18 explaining the logic behind it.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Carbon Stored by Nature Can Be Durable, Valuable, and Urgently Needed
Fixation on “permanence” risks paralysing climate action, because evidence shows ecosystems deliver durable net carbon benefits at scale despite local losses. Instead, experts urge the adoption of a durability-based approach, the use of established risk-management tools (buffer pools, reinsurance, compensation for reversals) under strong integrity rules, and the deployment of portfolios of natural and engineered solutions now, at scale, and to refine them over time.
Read MoreCOMMENT: One Hundred Years of Permanence? The Climate Action Reserve is Reenvisioning its Approach
The Climate Action Reserve is reenvisioning its approach to permanence in its voluntary protocols.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Article 6.4 and the permanence trap – Unlocking climate ambition
As the UNFCCC’s Methodological Expert Panel and Supervisory Body prepare to make a pivotal decision on permanence under Article 6.4 in the coming months, the stakes could not be higher, write Gabriel Labbate and Ruben Lubowski.
Read MoreECOSYSTEM MARKETPLACE: Takeaways for Developing CCP-approved Projects for Nature-based Solutions
The voluntary carbon market is shifting toward higher integrity through the adoption of the Core Carbon Principles, but project developers – especially in nature-based solutions – face challenges in aligning with these standards and call for clearer guidance, greater feasibility, and stronger collaboration to scale adoption.
Read MoreCOMMENT: The elephant in the room – A call for carbon projects to leverage inclusive finance to make good on their development potential
Voluntary carbon markets have huge potential to deliver meaningful development outcomes, but they are not yet realising it. Inclusive financial services could be key to changing this, writes Max Mattern from CGAP at the World Bank.
Read MoreCarbon Forward Expo London 2025 – Call for Proposals
Carbon Forward Expo London celebrates 10 years this October, and we are inviting partners to be part of this special event.
Read MoreCOMMENT: A Steel Linchpin for Financing the Future
Steel offers a timely, real-world test case for how credible data and shared standards can protect investors and accelerate industrial decarbonisation, writes Annie Heaton, CEO of ResponsibleSteel.
Read MoreCOMMENT: Striking the Right Balance – How the EU Could Integrate Permanent Carbon Removals into the EU ETS
Integrating permanent carbon removals into the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) poses both benefits and risks and will require policymakers to introduce safeguards and well-targeted complementary policies.
Read MoreCOMMENT: 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.
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