Isabel Haase

Options for addressing the risk of non-permanence for land-based mitigation in carbon crediting programmes

To address climate change, we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions and scale up carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere. Carbon crediting programs incentivize these actions by issuing tradable credits for each tonne of CO₂ equivalent reduction. However, not all carbon credits guarantee permanen

Carbon Mechanisms Review; Volume 12; Number 2; Pages 58-65

Escaping the market for lemons - Ensuring quality carbon credits that incentivize climate action

Carbon crediting continues to be a popular policy instrument in the international community’s response to global warming. Public and private actors alike count on carbon credits to incentivize accelerated climate action as well as for complying with voluntary and mandatory climate targets. At the

Factsheet CCQI Commercial Afforestation

Commercial afforestation projects have higher additionality risks than projects establishing natural forests as they do not solely rely on carbon credit revenues but also gain revenues from harvesting. In addition, some carbon crediting programs do not require checking for new legal requirements

Factsheet CCQI Improved Forest Management

IFM serves as an umbrella term for a broad array of forest management practices aiming at increasing or maintaining forest carbon stocks. IFM projects often combine several activities or management practices and sometimes change them over time. This broad spectrum of activities will be presented an

Adapting CDM methodologies for use under Article 6 of the Paris Agreement

This study assesses whether existing international carbon market methodologies for determination of additionality and baselines and monitoring, particularly those from the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), can be adjusted to transition to the Article 6.4 mechanism. CDM methodologies need to be modi

Lessons Learned from the Kyoto Mechanisms for the Article 6.4 Mechanism

The report summarizes key lessons learned from the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) for the new Article 6.4 mechanism of the Paris Agreement. The report first provides an overview of the issuance and use of carbon credits under these mechanisms. This