Reports & Commentary – Commentaries
To date, the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has lacked a common benchmark for carbon credit quality. The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s (ICVCM) Core Carbon Principles (CCPs), which…
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Over 9,000 of the largest companies in the world have now set meaningful climate targets and have combined supply chain emissions of more than world’s releases of greenhouse gases.1 Nearly…
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Developing projects for the global carbon credit market is a potentially rewarding but risky business. Developers need to find the ‘goldilocks zone’ where projects meet ever-exacting quality standards and the…
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Host governments for carbon credit projects are trying to ensure as much revenue as possible stays in the country and benefits the local communities. But the way they are going…
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To date, the voluntary carbon market (VCM) has lacked a common benchmark for carbon credit quality. The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market’s Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) are a…
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To its supporters, BECCS – or bioenergy with carbon capture and storage – offers a near-miracle solution to the challenge of climate change. In the BECCS process, carbon trapped in…
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The Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI) published its finalised Claims Code of Practice yesterday to great fanfare. This document follows from the Provisional Code published in June 2022. The…
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If you missed the presentation of our CEO and Founder, Guy Turner, at Imperial College on 20th June on the subject “Are Carbon Credits Worthless?” you can now download the…
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Mark Twain’s response in 1897 to a journalist enquiring about his health could equally apply to rumours circulating today about the health of the voluntary carbon market. In recent months…
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We are excited to launch our new Carbon Credit Integrity Assessment tool as a new module on the Trove Intelligence platform. The tool assesses the integrity of over carbon 4,000…
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The IC-VCM’s newly launched Core Carbon Principles (CCPs) are an important and helpful initiative to improve integrity in the voluntary carbon market…
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Investing according to environmental, social and governance criteria has been one of the key macro investment themes in the last decade. Growing at over 40% per year since 2015, the…
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The following article is an extract from Trove Research’s China country profile, available to subscribers. These country profiles describe the opportunities and risks for developing and trading carbon credits in…
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Climate change has now emerged as a major investment theme. Even mainstream fund managers are screening investments on climate criteria.
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You have to hand it to The Guardian – they certainly created stir with this article! In the space of a few days there has been a flurry of impassioned responses. This is our take…
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In October, insurance broker Howden unveiled a new insurance product for voluntary carbon credits, and back in June, UK-based start-up, Kita, raised seed funding to develop new insurance products for…
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Carbon credit markets were supposed to be counter-cyclical. Our analysis shows the opposite is true. In this thought-piece we examine the relationship between carbon markets and stock markets, and provide…
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COP26 had the headline-grabbing agreement on Article 6, but did it really change the direction of carbon markets? While it clarified the use of corresponding adjustments for compliance use, the…
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Trove’s new project classification provides a comprehensive and granular picture of the entire voluntary carbon market by classifying circa 4,000 registered projects and 2,600 pipeline projects across the major crediting…
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The potential for "REDD.plus" to dump huge quantities of carbon credits into the voluntary carbon market has caused consternation in some parts of the market. It was definitely a hot topic…
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On 26 September, EasyJet announced a pivot in its sustainability strategy to end the purchasing of carbon credits and focus on technology solutions to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The decision to stop buying carbon credits has raised concerns in the voluntary carbon market as airlines have been some of the largest buyers of credits.
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The Code Giveth More to the Voluntary Carbon Market Than It Taketh Away On Tuesday 7 June, the Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative (VCMI) launched the Provisional Claims Code of…
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On Monday 21 March, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) formally proposed that US listed companies should be required to disclose climate-related information in filing statements and annual reports.…
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What is Going On? After 6 months of steadily increasing prices, voluntary carbon credit prices have seen a sudden correction over the past 4 weeks to (w.e. 13 March). The…
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Today the action of football fans saved the future of European football bringing the European Super League to a halt. They also did their bit for the planet, saving an additional 165,000 tonnes/year of CO2, equivalent to removing 100,000 cars…
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