CORSIA: Market Developments and Forecast Scenarios

This AlliedOffsets report released in May 2025 forecasts rising demand for CORSIA-eligible carbon credits through 2035, warns of a major supply gap, and projects price hikes, urging greater credit issuance and stronger enforcement to avoid non-compliance risks for airlines.

Understanding Carbon Markets

MSCI released its Understanding Carbon Markets guide in December 2024. It explains how compliance and voluntary carbon markets work, the role of high-quality carbon credits, and how investors and companies use them to meet climate goals. It aims to equip stakeholders to engage effectively with carbon markets and drive global decarbonization.

State of the Blue Carbon Market: An Ocean of Potential 2024

The State of the Blue Carbon Market report highlights the potential of coastal ecosystems (mangroves, seagrasses, salt marshes) in climate mitigation. Published by Ecosystem Marketplace in October 2024, it says that despite challenges like high costs and regulatory hurdles, the market for blue carbon credits is growing. Scaling up through better financing and policy support is key to unlocking their potential.

SF6: The Hidden Giant of Super Pollutants:

Published in April 2025, the AlliedOffsets and Planet 2050 SF₆ Report highlights the extent of sulfur hexafluoride’s climate impact and its overlooked role in carbon markets. It calls for greater focus on SF₆ reduction through new technologies, policies, and inclusion in global climate strategies.

Defining Impact and CDR: The Impact Framework

Released in April 2025, Opna’s Impact Framework helps assess carbon removal (CDR) projects beyond carbon capture. It evaluates five key areas: carbon, innovation, social, economic and environmental impacts. The framework supports the building of custom climate strategies, ensuring measurable outcomes, and de-risking carbon removal investments.

“Nature’s investment frontier: Practical paths forward for biodiversity markets and finance “

Ecosystem Marketplace’s Nature’s Investment Frontier report examines how biodiversity finance markets can help address global ecological challenges. Published in April 2025, it emphasizes the need for integrity in market design. It focuses on public-private partnerships, systemic changes in how we value nature, and integrating biodiversity into sectors like infrastructure. The report stresses that true nature-positive outcomes depend on careful planning, not shortcuts.

Balancing Bankability and Integrity: fostering investment-ready nature-based solutions

The World Wildlife Fund released a report in March 2025 based on research from Wild Business. It finds that the world must nearly triple its annual spending on nature-based solutions from US$200 billion to US$542 billion by 2030 to mitigate the climate crisis and biodiversity loss. It includes real-life examples of nature-based solutions in action to show how these projects can transform landscapes and create profits.