Sylvera’s Q2 2026 data snapshot finds retirement volumes fell 10% year-on-year to 38.55 million credits, while total retirement market value rose, driven by a quality premium and shifting registry dynamics.
How to structure your carbon portfolio under new net-zero standards
Abatable guides corporate buyers in designing carbon portfolios that balance decarbonisation, ongoing emissions responsibility, removals and remediation reserves while matching instruments to claims under emerging net-zero standards and procurement timelines.
Clean Energy 101: Advance Market Commitments Today Can Build a Low-Carbon Tomorrow
RMI explains how advance market commitments can aggregate buyer demand to signal market readiness, using low-carbon cement and concrete procurement as a case study for scaling clean energy solutions.
Market Insights Brief: Carbon Deal Dynamics, June 2026
Ecosystem Marketplace and Carbon Capital Lab surveyed 48 VCM project developers and intermediaries on deal timelines and friction; relationship capital, buyer readiness, and price emerge as dominant factors.
CCP Guide Module 1: Navigating High-Integrity Carbon Markets
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market launches the first module of a new guidance series helping organisations, businesses, and governments engage with high-integrity carbon markets using CCPs.
Regulatory frameworks for project-based carbon credit markets
Columbia’s Center on Global Energy Policy compares how G20 countries and Singapore regulate project-based carbon credit markets, finding supply-side rules have matured while demand-side governance stays inconsistent as national registries and Article 6 readiness spread.
Contracted Durability: A Framework for Performance-Based Carbon Removal
A new white paper from RMI, Beyond Alliance, the American Forest Foundation, and LongRun Climate introduces contracted durability: a set of legal and financial mechanisms that ensure a carbon dioxide removal credit keeps one tonne of CO₂ out of the atmosphere across the durability threshold it is required to meet.
Enabling conditions to unlock private sector demand in carbon markets: Policy considerations for host jurisdictions
Published by Beyond, Emergent and the Symbiosis Coalition, this briefing paper outlines nine policy enabling conditions host countries can set to unlock private sector demand in voluntary carbon markets, covering corresponding adjustment guidance, domestic governance and registries, benefit sharing, carbon rights/FPIC, and REDD+ nesting. It shows how clear, stable frameworks de-risk investment, reduce delays, and support high-integrity credit supply aligned with national climate and development priorities.
State of finance for nature 2026: Nature in the red
Published by UNEP, this report tracks global finance flows for nature and highlights implications for the voluntary carbon market, including declining investment in nature-based credits amid heightened scrutiny of integrity and credit quality.
The state of carbon credits 2025
Sylvera’s 2025 market review shows falling issuance and retirements alongside rising spot-market value, as buyers pay higher prices for higher-quality credits. The report highlights widening price differentials by rating, persistent oversupply of unrated credits, and growing convergence between voluntary and compliance markets.