Assessing and comparing carbon credit rating agencies
This report qualitatively assesses the robustness and reliability of evaluations of carbon credit quality by selected carbon credit rating agencies.
Rating the raters: Assessing the quality of carbon credit rating agencies
This briefing provides Carbon Market Watch’s analysis and recommendations related to the ‘Assessing and comparing carbon credit rating agencies’ report.
CMW input for South Pole consultation on corporate claims for Funding Climate Action
Carbon Market Watch submitted feedback and input for the South Pole consultation related to funding climate action. We analysed recommendations for the voluntary carbon market and added further comments for the South Pole approach and the carbon neutrality claims.
Carbon copy: Draft European Parliament report fails to correct faulty carbon removals framework
The European Parliament Environment Committee’s rapporteur has preserved most of the defects in her draft report reacting to the European Commission’s proposed Carbon Removal Certification Framework. The draft report, composed by MEP Lídia Pereira of the European People’s Party, contains many small improvements compared with the European Commission’s original proposal for a Carbon Removal Certification …
CMW input for FTC consultation on “Green Guides”
Carbon Market Watch provided feedback and input to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) consultation on the potential revision of its “Green Guides”.
Integrity Council’s new carbon market rules offer improvements but don’t close all loopholes
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has just released a set of new rules which seek to boost the quality of carbon credits for offsetting but ignore other issues with the market. While this is an improvement on current practices, the problematic concept of offsetting itself must be abandoned. As part of its …
Assessing the robustness of carbon market grievance mechanisms
This study assesses the effectiveness of carbon market grievance mechanisms of leading voluntary carbon market standards. While most voluntary carbon market standards have grievance mechanisms in place, most of them are opaque and do not properly describe their procedures.
Climate profiteering: Are intermediaries exploiting carbon markets for their own ends?
Despite the role voluntary carbon markets are meant to play in financing climate action, the exact amount of money reaching climate projects and local communities is shrouded in mystery, while nine out of 10 intermediaries do not disclose their fees or profit margins, a new study commissioned by Carbon Market Watch reveals.
Secretive intermediaries: Are carbon markets really financing climate action?
The purchase of carbon credits through the voluntary carbon market is widely considered to be an effective way to channel finance towards climate action. However, despite years of existence and the recent hype surrounding voluntary carbon markets, no public research exists to assess how much VCM finance is actually reaching climate mitigation projects and local …
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Analysis of voluntary carbon market stakeholders and intermediaries
Commissioned by Carbon Market Watch and conducted by AlliedOffsets, this report explores the role of intermediaries in the voluntary carbon market. It seeks to determine how much of the money flowing through these markets reaches climate projects on the ground and how much is intercepted by intermediaries as fees and mark-up to fatten their profits. The report identifies a dearth of information on the details of carbon credit trades and a lack of transparency on the part of intermediaries.
