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
Maintaining the incentive to decarbonise should be the guiding principle of the UK ETS, ensuring covered emissions go to zero or near zero. The integration of carbon removals in the ETS, even if gradual, goes
Carbon Market Watch gives specific feedback to rules considering a Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) system for non-CO2 aviation effects, and deplores the serious weakening of the commitments compared to earlier rules.
The voluntary carbon market (VCM) is often championed as a key tool for combating climate change and funding climate mitigation projects, especially in economically disadvantaged regions like Africa. Despite Africa’s minimal contribution to global greenhouse gas
There is no way around it: the EU LULUCF carbon sink is shrinking. Carbon Market Watch recommends three key areas for improvement in the next revision of the LULUCF Regulation
The Social Climate Fund (SCF) is the first EU fund developed with the explicit purpose of alleviating energy and transport poverty resulting from the transition towards zero-emission mobility and decarbonised buildings. Our latest FAQ has
Carbon Market Watch supports a scientifically sound and environmentally integer use of permanent CCU in industry and under the EU ETS Directive to incentivise its deployment and obtain additional emissions reductions. To achieve this goal,
In this joint statement, 80 civil society organisations, including Carbon Market Watch, express their opposition to the use of carbon credits for offsetting purposes and the recent move towards relaxing rules surrounding indirect scope 3
A new report finds that despite improvements, serious shortcomings persist in the grievance mechanisms of the standards. These shortcomings limit the access to recourse for those adversely affected by carbon market projects.
Whilst REDD+ credits have been the subject of intense media and civil society scrutiny, the same cannot be said of renewable energy projects, which are plagued by similar issues when used for offsetting, yet manage
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