Tag: Verification

A clerical error pushed Guyana's 2023 J-REDD+ issuance 40% too high. A ratings agency flagged it, ART is freezing and canceling credits. What buyers must check.

Gold Standard proposes tighter rules for community carbon projects: verifiable carbon-rights consent, equipment sourcing and end-of-life safeguards.

An ICVCM and World Bank working group wants satellite and AI tools that quantify carbon credits pre-approved and disclosed. What 16 recommendations change.

Qatar-based Global Carbon Council is shifting key verification tasks from human auditors to digital MRV, a structural test for carbon credit integrity.

New Zealand released endorsement criteria for voluntary nature and carbon schemes, a quality signal aimed at smaller and biodiversity projects.

A UK firm's plan to sell carbon credits from landfill-gas-powered AI data centres is under fire: the gas is already captured. Why the additionality test matters now.

TÜV SÜD has opened a S$30 million decarbonisation centre in Singapore to verify emissions data for ASEAN carbon markets, citing a US$3 trillion regional opportunity.

Sylvera has issued its first pre-issuance rating for a DAC project, grading Deep Sky One AAA-A. Why rating credits before they exist matters for CDR finance.

A Harvard-NUS study of 3,213 projects finds negative media coverage of one carbon project cuts credit issuance across its entire registry.

Two senior scientists have quit the GHG Protocol's forest carbon process over how companies may count natural removals. What is at stake for buyers.