Carbon markets continued to feature prominently and often worryingly at COP30. Carbon Market Watch witnessed a stark contrast between the optimism championed by the many initiatives promoting “high quality” carbon markets and the negotiation rooms where concerted efforts were made to water down Article 6 rules.
27 November 2025 | 15:00-16:00 CET | Online
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.
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.
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 (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”.
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.
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.
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 …
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