FAQ: Social Climate Fund
Our latest FAQ has the answers to everything you always wanted to know about the Social Climate Fund
Blocked avenues for redress: Shedding light on carbon market grievance mechanisms (2024 edition)
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.
Un partage équitable du marché volontaire du carbone?
Comment l’absence de règles standard sur les accords de partage des bénéfices nuit aux communautés locales et aux peuples autochtones Comment et dans quelle mesure les bénéfices des ventes de crédits carbone sont-ils partagés avec ceux qui mettent en œuvre les projets et les communautés locales où ces projets sont situés ? C’est la question …
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Uma proporção justa do mercado voluntário de carbono?
Como a ausência de regras padronizadas sobre os acordos de partilha de benefícios prejudica as comunidades locais e os povos indígenas Como e em que medida os benefícios da venda de créditos de carbono são partilhados com os responsáveis pela implementação dos projetos e com as comunidades locais onde os projetos estão localizados? Esta é …
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¿Una distribución justa del mercado voluntario del carbono?
Cómo la ausencia de normas estándar sobre acuerdos de distribución de beneficios perjudica a las comunidades locales y a los pueblos indígenas ¿Cómo y en qué medida se reparten los beneficios de la venta de créditos de carbono entre los ejecutores de los proyectos y las comunidades locales donde éstos se ubican? Esta es la …
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Carbon Market Watch inputs to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body ahead of its 10th meeting: appeal and grievance processes
Carbon Market Watch welcomes the Call for Input for the annotated agenda and related annexes of the next meeting of the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body. We would hereby like to submit input on A6.4-SB010-AA-A04 – Draft procedure: Appeal and grievance processes under the Article 6.4 mechanism. For a grievance process, it is of utmost importance …
CMW inputs to the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body ahead of its 10th meeting: Operation of the mechanism registry
Before the Article 6.4 Supervisory Body’s 10th meeting from 26 February to 1 March 2024, Carbon Market Watch prepared inputs on the draft document, “Concept note: Operation of the mechanism registry (v01.0)”. The mechanism registry will be a core part of the Article 6 infrastructure, and all activity- and unit-related data must be made accessible to …
Common good v private profit: Making the EU’s Emissions Trading System work for the many rather than the few
23 January 2024 | 14:30 – 16:00 CET | ONLINE The EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) badly needs cleaning up. It needs to make heavy emitters pay a fair price for their immense carbon footprints and use that revenue to finance industrial decarbonisation and schemes that benefit society and the environment. Drawing on the …
Taming the Wild West of the voluntary carbon market
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.
A fair share of the voluntary carbon market?
How the absence of standard rules on benefit sharing arrangements hurts local communities and indigenous peoples How and to what extent are the benefits from carbon credit sales shared with those implementing the projects and the local communities where the projects are located? This is the question Öko-Institut investigated and the resulting report, commissioned by …
