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How Not To Mess With The ETS
Monday, 11 May 2026, 9:17 pm | Carbon Market Watch
Carbon Market Watch’s 10-point plan to keep the EU Emissions Trading System on track to serve the climate and society. More >>
Losing Ground: UN Carbon Market Will Likely Fail To Protect Marginalised Communities - Report
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 9:53 pm | Carbon Market Watch
Carbon Market Watch and the Land Matrix Initiative make a series of recommendations: ensuring the tool always complies with international human rights norms and expanding the need for free, prior and informed consent to cover all affected groups. More >>
Oil Spill: How Fossil Fuel Interests Are Seeping Into The Voluntary Carbon Market Rulebook
Thursday, 26 February 2026, 7:54 pm | Carbon Market Watch
Our report also delves into the more discreet methods of oil and gas company influencing techniques. The brigade of companies at the heart of climate inaction are extremely active and notorious networkers. More >>
Too Much Credit: No Connection Between Carbon Markets And Climate Ambition, Study Finds
Saturday, 29 November 2025, 3:57 pm | Carbon Market Watch
Corporate claims promise the world, but don’t deliver for the planet. Corporations that really want to make a difference must sharpen up their schemes to become aligned with the strained beating heart of climate science. More >>
Sky Polluters, Time To Chip In! Citizens, Time To Cash In!
Monday, 4 August 2025, 12:49 pm | Carbon Market Watch
European Union can generate 10 times more revenue for climate action by holding aviation industry to account in Emissions Trading System revision More >>
Flexibilities In 2040 Target Risk Breaking The EU Carbon Market - Study
Thursday, 19 June 2025, 7:50 pm | Carbon Market Watch
A new study commissioned by Carbon Market Watch through the LIFE Effect project and conducted by the Oeko Institute, which considers the contribution of the EU ETS to the 2040 climate target, reveals that not only are such adjustments unnecessary, ... More >>
Cookstove Carbon Credits: Recipe For Cooking The Climate Books
Saturday, 3 May 2025, 6:24 pm | Carbon Market Watch
A new report reveals that cookstove carbon projects eligible for the Korean Emissions Trading System are at risk of issuing 18 times more credits than they should, echoing past EU carbon market mistakes. More >>
COP29: Complex Article 6 Rules Pave Way To Unruly Carbon Markets
Saturday, 30 November 2024, 11:14 pm | Carbon Market Watch
Despite the best efforts of activists and some climate negotiators, the agreement reached on Article 6 carbon markets at COP29 in Baku risks facilitating cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff. More >>
Oxy’s Plans For “Net-zero Oil” And Carbon Removal Offsets Spell Trouble For The Climate – Report
Sunday, 5 May 2024, 6:25 am | Carbon Market Watch
The net-zero strategy of Occidental Petroleum (Oxy) relies heavily on unproven carbon removal technologies to camouflage its fossil fuel emissions and those of its customers while expanding its oil and gas production, a new investigation reveals. More >>
Going For Green: Is The Paris Olympics Winning The Race Against The Climate Clock?
Thursday, 18 April 2024, 6:49 am | Carbon Market Watch
The 2024 Paris Olympics promises a gold-winning climate performance and to set the pace for future games. Our in-depth assessment reveals that, despite improvement, the carbon footprint of the Olympics remains far too high to be sustainable. This ... More >>
COP27: Governments Must Slash Emissions, Not Ambition
Thursday, 3 November 2022, 6:01 am | Carbon Market Watch
As Carbon Market Watch prepares to attend the COP27 climate conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, we urge the international community to commit to far more ambitious climate action. Negotiators must design effective and fair carbon markets under Article 6 ... More >>
Environment Ministers Weaken Emissions Trading System In A Race To The Bottom With European Parliament
Thursday, 30 June 2022, 6:37 am | Carbon Market Watch
Rather than correct course after the European Parliament’s shocking abrogation of responsibility, EU environment ministers have lowered the ambition of the EU's Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) even further. Moreover, the Environment Council ... More >>
Carbon Copy: MEPs Vote For Emissions Trading System Reforms They Rejected Two Weeks Ago
Thursday, 23 June 2022, 6:22 am | Carbon Market Watch
After being recently voted down in the European Parliament, the reform of the EU’s Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) was successfully passed today. But there’s little cause for celebration: while the changes might appear favourable at first glance, ... More >>
EU Parliament Sends Carbon Market Review Back To The Drawing Board
Thursday, 9 June 2022, 6:17 am | Carbon Market Watch
In an unexpected turn of events in the European Parliament, a watered-down carbon market package was rejected by a majority of MEPs. The review of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) Directive was referred back to the Environment Committee ... More >>
Top Corporations Use Misleading Climate Pledges To Greenwash Image, New Report
Thursday, 3 February 2022, 6:52 am | Carbon Market Watch
Major global companies are avoiding meaningful climate action and are instead using false, misleading or ambiguous green claims, a new report shows. The first Climate Corporate Responsibility Monitor assesses the pledges made by 25 of the world’s ... More >>
COP26: Half-baked Carbon Market Rules Fail To Take Heat Off The Climate
Sunday, 14 November 2021, 7:21 am | Carbon Market Watch
After over five years of dithering and two weeks of intensive negotiations, the world’s governments settled on slimmed-down ground rules for carbon markets under the Paris Agreement’s Article 6. This deal will provide escape hatches for government ... More >>
Selling Net-zero Pipe Dreams – Fossil Fuels Cannot Be Carbon Neutral, New Investigation Shows
Tuesday, 19 October 2021, 6:34 am | Carbon Market Watch
A growing number of oil and gas companies are selling fossil fuels they market as “carbon neutral”. A Carbon Market Watch investigation has thoroughly investigated these claims and concluded that they amount to brazen greenwashing. Due out ahead ... More >>
New 1bn USD Initiative Raises The Bar For Forest Carbon Credits, But Risk Of Abuse Remains
Friday, 23 April 2021, 6:02 am | Carbon Market Watch
A joint reaction by Carbon Market Watch and the Rainforest Foundation Norway to the announcement of a new coalition to finance forestry climate projects BRUSSELS/OSLO 22 April 2021 In the context of the US President Biden’s “Leaders’ Summit”, ... More >>
EU Leaders’ 2030 Target Deal Ignores Europe’s Climate Responsibility
Saturday, 12 December 2020, 6:24 am | Carbon Market Watch
EU leaders have agreed a net 55% emissions reduction goal for 2030. While this replaces the outdated 40% goal, the target is not in line with the Paris Agreement[1] and Europe’s historic responsibility to cut emissions. Relying on forests and land ... More >>
EU Commission’s Climate Plan Two Steps Forward, One Step Backwards
Friday, 18 September 2020, 8:23 am | Carbon Market Watch
The European Commission’s 2030 Climate Target Plan reiterates positive elements from the European Green Deal such as strengthening the EU carbon market and reducing free pollution permits to airlines. But the plan to rely on carbon sinks to reach ... More >>
