carbon credits

The ETS review and carbon credits: how many tonnes, how many credits?

The ETS review and carbon credits: how many tonnes, how many credits?

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The EU's renewed opening to international carbon credits has moved, within four months, from ...

Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits

Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Italy has 11.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 39% of the country’s territory...

International credits in the ETS: the Commission moves forward, the Parliament is divided

International credits in the ETS: the Commission moves forward, the Parliament is divided

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter On 17 July 2026, the European Commission issued a legislative proposal to overhaul the EU ETS...

Pricing carbon beyond ICAO and IMO: a “sovereign” experiment from Africa

Pricing carbon beyond ICAO and IMO: a “sovereign” experiment from Africa

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Despite adverse political headwinds and a general global retraction from climate action and m...

Neya, Mundys’ model for a high-integrity carbon credits market

Neya, Mundys’ model for a high-integrity carbon credits market

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Mundys, a leading Italian holding company managing airports and motorways primarily in E...

Could Iron Man Save the Carbon Market?

Could Iron Man Save the Carbon Market?

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter During the week of May 18 to May 23, I was in Singapore for two of the most important carbon ...

Transition credits: waiting for Godot?

Transition credits: waiting for Godot?

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The question of whether transition credits constitute a viable tool for accelerating coal pha...

CBAM: the challenges of international accreditation

CBAM: the challenges of international accreditation

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Who monitors emissions from a steel mill in Wuhan on behalf of Europe when we import material...

Political risk in the carbon market: the LOA trap

Political risk in the carbon market: the LOA trap

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter In almost every Article 6 conversation, the same acronym comes up: LOA – Letter of Authorisation....

CCS, how to resolve the incomplete carbon management chain

CCS, how to resolve the incomplete carbon management chain

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) is often described as a singular, monolith...

Shaping Article 6 from a National Perspective: Singapore’s Carbon Tax

Shaping Article 6 from a National Perspective: Singapore’s Carbon Tax

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Singapore has emerged as a leader in recent carbon diplomacy efforts under ...

Quality & Integrity: What are Developers really thinking about?

Quality & Integrity: What are Developers really thinking about?

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. I recently published Part I of this short series on the words “qualit...

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, a soil carbon market

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, a soil carbon market

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP), led by the Northern R...

Integrity and Quality: The Words That Now Decide Prices in Carbon Markets

Integrity and Quality: The Words That Now Decide Prices in Carbon Markets

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. What do integrity and quality really mean? I have my own interpretatio...

Carbon insetting: decarbonising the supply chain by regenerating ecosystems

Carbon insetting: decarbonising the supply chain by regenerating ecosystems

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Faced with the environmental, social and economic crises we are e...

The secret weapon of timber construction

The secret weapon of timber construction

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The construction sector is one of the most polluting in Europe. Accord...

The return of carbon diplomacy

The return of carbon diplomacy

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. Over the past year, two political developments have profoundly affecte...

Transition and international trade: China’s role at COP30

Transition and international trade: China’s role at COP30

From Belém - At COP30 in Belém, global trade was for the first time explicitly included in climate negotiations. It was inevitable: the transition is no longer just a matter of climate...

BRICS at a crossroads: mutual recognition or Article 6?

BRICS at a crossroads: mutual recognition or Article 6?

Relatively little attention was paid in the Western media to the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia, in 2024. Within the course of that summit, the BRICS Partnership on Carbon Markets was launc...

“Intractable” problems? A Door Selection to save carbon credits

“Intractable” problems? A Door Selection to save carbon credits

“It is highly likely that many of the problems festering in the carbon credit market are intractable, […] systemic problems with deep roots that cannot be solved by incremental changes....