Carbon Market Watch analysed the climate strategies and underlying assessments of six European countries – Austria, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, and Norway – and the European Commission. Across the board, an alarming pattern consistently emerges: a heavy reliance on carbon dioxide removals (CDR) to achieve climate targets. Moreover, this dependence is resting on shaky ground due to a consistent failure to carry out critical feasibility assessments.
Oil and gas majors and their affiliated trade associations have striven behind the scenes to negatively influence government regulation on carbon credits in the United States. This report builds on our first Oil Spill report, and highlights how the fossil fuel sector’s influence is exrercised both at the federal level, with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and at the state level, where some fossil fuel interests have spent $273 million dollars in lobbying California climate legislation over two decades between 2005 and 2026.
With the 2026 World Cup, FIFA, football’s governing body, is scoring poorly for the climate and has even netted a few own goals.
FAQ on how companies can support external climate action.
The guide gives consumers advice on how to spot greenwashing, and to separate a true green claim, from a problematic red flag.
Carbon Market Watch works, among other topics, on ‘Regulating climate claims and corporate climate responsibility’, but how do we take responsibility for CMW’s own impact on the climate? It has been a gradual effort over several years. Our climate plan sets out how the organisation measures, reduces, and takes responsibility for its greenhouse gas (GHG) …
Read more “Internal climate plan”
CMW has sketched the scenario of companies adhering to both the LSRS and the SBTi’s FLAG Guidance, and found worrying evidence that compliance with the FLAG Guidance is taking precedence over the LSRS
A review of existing studies finds that there is insufficient evidence to support the hypothesis that corporate investments in the voluntary carbon market increase a company’s climate ambition.
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