Webinar: Do carbon credits really boost corporate climate ambition?
27 November 2025 | 15:00-16:00 CET | Online
Carbon markets and the Global South: opportunity or exploitation?
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.
COP30: No to misusing carbon markets to camouflage climate inaction
At the COP30 climate conference, countries that have cooled on climate action are set to exploit carbon markets to take the heat to act off themselves. But carbon markets are no substitutes for real emissions cuts and no replacement for climate finance.
Harmonisation of ISO and GHG-P standards must raise the quality bar
The International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO) and the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHG-P) decision to create common emissions accounting standards has the potential to streamline and simplify procedures. However, this must be done in a way that lifts climate ambition
Carbon Market Watch’s input on the UK Government’s proposed framework for voluntary carbon and nature markets
Carbon Market Watch (CMW) welcomed the opportunity given by the UK government to provide feedback on its proposed policy and governance framework, “Voluntary carbon and nature markets: raising integrity”.
Recommendations to the Government of Zambia
Carbon Market Watch welcomes the development of the Government of Zambia’s Carbon Market Regulations as part of its Statutory Instrument. National regulation for carbon markets are indispensable to regulate existing carbon market standards and frameworks.
Carbon market auditing process inherently flawed, concludes new paper
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.
Race against the climate clock: Can corporations make good on their climate pledges in time?
Corporate climate action is more often than not approached as a branding or marketing exercise, whereas it needs to be about rethinking and redesigning business models. As the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor (CCRM) 2025 reveals, companies need to urgently scale up their awareness of and commitment to transformative change by rolling out a number of …
New VCMI guidance risks justifying carbon offsetting and delaying real corporate climate action, NGOs say
In new guidance, the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI) is promoting the use of carbon credits to camouflage the fact that companies grappling with their indirect (scope 3) emissions are off track to reach their commitments. But carbon credits must not replace direct emissions reductions, NGOs warn.
