Isa Mulder, Author at Carbon Market Watch

Out of the frying pan, into the cookstove: Too many carbon credits enter UN carbon market

by Isa MulderGlobal markets 09/06/202617/06/2026Comments are Disabled

The first two projects, both related to cookstoves, approved for use under the UN’s carbon market massively overestimate their climate impact, despite efforts to rein in overcrediting. In April of last year, Carbon Market Watch published an analysis demonstrating that the first Clean Development Mechanism project (known as Programme of Activities, or PoA, 10415) in …

Supporters of UN carbon market risk cheating nature

by Isa MulderGlobal markets 12/11/202512/11/2025Comments are Disabled

Efforts to dilute Article 6 rules risk turning the new UN carbon market mechanism into a false climate solution that harms both nature and global climate action

Carbon markets and the Global South: opportunity or exploitation?

by Isa MulderGlobal markets 07/11/202507/11/2025Comments are Disabled

Few climate instruments are as controversial as carbon credit markets: some see them a cost-efficient way to reduce or remove emissions globally and to help the Global South in the bargain, while others see a failure to deliver sufficient climate benefits, as well as inequitable, or even seriously negative, social consequences.

UN carbon market drops the ball on permanence

by Isa Mulder2050 climate strategies, Global markets, Land use and forestry 15/10/202515/10/2025Comments are Disabled

Instead of listening to its own technical experts and scientific evidence, the body overseeing the UN carbon crediting mechanism has chosen to side with market players after intense lobbying efforts.

Carbon market auditing process inherently flawed, concludes new paper

by Isa MulderGlobal markets 17/07/202517/07/2025Comments are Disabled

Third-party auditors are meant to safeguard and underwrite the quality of carbon markets, yet the intrinsic conflict of interest with which they grapple undermines their role as independent verifiers. This was the conclusion of a new study.

First wave of Article 6 carbon credits misfire spectacularly

by Isa MulderGlobal markets 10/04/202526/05/2025Comments are Disabled

A new Carbon Market Watch analysis, based on currently available project data, has uncovered that the first project transitioning from the CDM to the Article 6.4 market is poised to issue an astonishing 26 times more credits than it should as compared to the values from peer-reviewed scientific literature.