Article 6 of the Paris Agreement sets out the principles for carbon markets. At COP29, governments must fix all the outstanding issues so as to ensure that Article 6 advances, rather than sets back, the climate agenda. This detailed guide explains what is at stake.
At the COP29 climate conference in Baku, negotiators need to fix Article 6 carbon markets but, most importantly, they need to fix the world’s failure to slash emissions.
The Article 6.4 Supervisory Body aims to adopt the sustainable development (SD) tool at its next meeting in September/October. This tool is the main instrument to safeguard environmental, ecological and human rights, including the rights of Indigenous People.
The latest round of UN climate negotiations in Bonn has laid the groundwork for the power players to finally agree at COP29 on transparency and wider quality issues of Article 6 carbon markets. Our CMW team reports.
As the line increasingly blurs between UN REDD+ and Article 6.2 carbon markets, this briefing sets the record straight. This comparison demonstrates that these two systems do not serve the same purpose and do not have comparable quality requirements. Urgent finance is needed for forest conservation, but Article 6.2 carbon markets are not the way.
Carbon Market Watch has prepared a set of recommendations for Article 6 negotiators ahead of the UNFCCC climate change conference taking place in Bonn from 3-13 June 2024 (SB 60).
Torn between countries demanding that Article 6 carbon markets be available with virtually no restrictions and countries insisting on upholding transparency, human rights, and climate ambition, negotiators at COP28 failed to break the deadlock. With all the unresolved problematic issues, the fact that they reached no deal was better than agreeing to a bad one that would torpedo the Paris Agreement.
Despite the wishful thinking of champions of carbon offsetting at COP28, the voluntary carbon market will only play a role in tackling the climate crisis with stricter standards and greater transparency.
Carbon Market Watch will be at this year’s climate change conference (COP28) in Dubai to demand, along with civil society allies, that major polluters speed up their decarbonisation and turn back the dial on accelerating global heating.
Ahead of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body’s 8th meeting, Carbon Market Watch welcomes the opportunity to respond to the call for inputs and has prepared a submission on the Supervisory Body’s ongoing work on developing recommendations on methodological requirements (baseline-setting, additionally, etc.).
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