Reports & Commentary - Policy and Guidance

Commentary

Trove Launches new VCM Country Opportunity and Risk Index

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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Commentary

The Scramble for African Carbon Credits – Should Governments Intervene?

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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Commentary

ICVCM’s Core Carbon Principles narrow the gap between idealism and pragmatism

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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Webinar

2Q23 VCM in Review – Carbon claims under the spotlight

The latest edition of our quarterly VCM in review webinar,  '2Q23 VCM in Review: Carbon claims under the spotlight,' was on Thursday, 20th July at 3pm BST. The Trove team…

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Commentary

VCMI Claims Code of Practice – Important progress but the difficult stuff still lies ahead

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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Webinar

Voluntary Carbon Market 1Q23 in Review – the State of Integrity

This video and slide pack is from the 18th April Trove webinar on key developments in the voluntary carbon market in the first quarter of 2023, including an in-depth review of…

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Commentary

Climate and ESG Investing in the Age of DeSantis and Republican Liberalism

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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Commentary

China’s voluntary carbon market could burst back into life

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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Webinar

South American carbon markets webinar

This video and slide pack (in English, Spanish and Portuguese) is from the 15th February Trove webinar on South American carbon markets. In the webinar the Trove team provided an overview…

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VCM: 2022 in review

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s 'VCM in Review 2022', where we discuss of the voluntary carbon market in 2022 and what to expect for 2023.

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Webinar

Demystifying the use of carbon credits for corporate climate targets

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s December 15th webinar in collaboration with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.

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Webinar

COP27 in a Nutshell

With the sun having set in Sharm el-Sheikh, what really went down at #COP27, and what does it mean for carbon markets? This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s December 6 on key developments and reflections on COP27.

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Commentary

Insurance joins list of options to de-risk carbon credits

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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Commentary

COP 27, 6 days to go: will carbon markets get a shake-down in Sharm?

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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3Q22 Review of Voluntary Carbon Market

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s October 27 on key developments in the voluntary carbon market in the first 3 quarters of 2022.  The presentation covers…

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Commentary

REDD.plus – A green idea, but too many red flags

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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Webinar

Raising the bar: Will new policies deliver higher carbon credit quality?

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s September 12th webinar on key policy development regarding carbon credit quality, including Core Carbon Principles and updates from IC-VCM.

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Report

Impact of the voluntary carbon market on tropical forest countries – implications for corresponding adjustments

This study, funded by the Environmental Defense Fund, estimates the capacity of tropical forest countries to meet forecasted corporate demand for forest-based credits. Three scenarios are developed for host country…

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Using carbon credits to enhance corporate climate action

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s June 2022 webinar on using carbon credits to enhance corporate climate action.

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Commentary

Voluntary Carbon Market Integrity Initiative – Provisional Claims Code Of Practice

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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1Q22 Review of Voluntary Carbon Market

This slide pack and recording contains the presentation from Trove’s April 26 webinar on key developments in the voluntary carbon market in the first quarter of 2022, together with an…

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Commentary

SEC Climate Disclosure Proposal

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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Report

Improving the quality of corporate climate reporting – An analysis of over 900 companies

Trove Research’s analysis of 920 companies reporting of carbon emissions and climate targets shows many companies do not follow best reporting practice. Many firms omit important information to enable meaningful…

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Report

COP26 Briefing – Implications for Corporate Climate Commitments and The VCM

The final negotiations of COP26 in Glasgow may have run over by 24 hours, but a number of important agreements were reached over the two weeks. This Briefing Note summarises…

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Report

The Voluntary Carbon Market and Climate Ambition

This is the final report summarising the consultation process convened by Trove Research on the interaction between the Voluntary Carbon Market and national commitments under the Paris Agreement. The report…

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The Global Voluntary Carbon Market – Dealing with the problem of historic credits

Established over a decade ago, the market for carbon offsets (known as the voluntary carbon market), is undergoing a surge of interest. It is used by firms as a method…

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Discussion paper on the use of corresponding adjustments for Voluntary Carbon Credit Transfers

This discussion document sets out a potential framework for assessing the contentious issues on the use of Corresponding Adjustments for voluntary carbon market transfers, and suggests a potential solution space.…

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Report

High Ambition Markets Accelerator – HAMA

This report summarises the outcome of two global workshops held on December 9th and 10th 2020 with Civil Society and Corporate actors. The aim of the workshops was to understand…

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