Carbon Market Watch - for fair and effective climate action

Get to know Carbon Market Watch

Carbon Market Watch is an independent, not-for-profit watchdog and research organisation with unique expertise in carbon pricing and a track record of shaping and influencing international and European climate policy.

A carbon price that reflects the true cost of pollution, with revenue used for effective climate action

Rapid decarbonisation of industry and high corporate climate responsibility

Ambitious and rapid climate action in the aviation and shipping sectors

Robust and fair rules for UN carbon markets

Climate policies with high environmental integrity and ambition

Our current projects

Together with partners, we work on several campaigns within our work areas.

Find out more about our high-profile projects and visit their websites.

EU ETS Revenue Simulator

Estimating the revenue from the EU's Emissions Trading System

Latest news

EU carbon market

EU’s 2040 credit line risks bankrupting the climate

14/04/2025

Global markets

First wave of Article 6 carbon credits misfire spectacularly

10/04/2025

The EU Green Deal and Climate Law

There can be no flexibility in the EU’s 2040 climate target

08/04/2025

Featured videos

Our work areas

Carbon credits and claims

Carbon removals

Industrial and power decarbonisation

The decarbonisation of transportation and buildings

Whistleblowers: Your planet needs you

As a watchdog organisation, we strongly encourage anyone who would like to share information regarding carbon markets, carbon pricing or other topics that we cover, to contact us.

Latest publications

Global markets

Results Over-crediting analysis PoA 10415

Analysis of the available documents has found that PoA 10415, over the monitoring periods 5, 6 and 7, is likely set to issue 27.4 more credits than it should have according to available literature.

10/04/2025

Carbon dioxide removals

Biodiversity and the Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming Framework

This briefing delves deeper into how biodiversity is being handled in the carbon farming methodologies, with a particular focus on agriculture.

24/03/2025

Decarbonising European industry

Joint letter to establish an EU lending facility for ETS2 revenue for member states

Signatories believe that to better prepare member states for the implementation of ETS2, early access must be granted to revenue before the system begins in 2027.

12/03/2025

Featured event

(Un)conditional support to top polluting sectors in Europe: Do they pay, or do we pay?

This event discusses the impact of the EU ETS2 – the EU’s new emissions trading scheme that applies carbon pricing to buildings and road transport – on citizens and households, raising questions about fairness and revenue distribution.