Global Carbon Market: Ready for Action

The new issue of Carbon Mechanisms Review provides insights into the results of the interim negotiations in Bonn and assesses their implications for the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference in Baku in November.

Another article takes a closer look at the lack of transparency in the quality of carbon credits, which hinders their purchase. The authors also provide a possible solution: The "Carbon Credit Quality Initiative" provides scientifically sound, independent information on the quality of credits. This helps both buyers and sellers and thus contributes to an increase in quality in the entire carbon market.

An article on efficient cookstove usage in the Global South illustrates why it is so difficult to accurately and reliably calculate the climate change mitigation impact of projects: The authors describe the problems in quantifying the performance of such programmes, place them in the context of Article 6 – and use the example of Zambia to show how the calculations can be made more reliable.

Capacity building, particularly for governments in the Global South, is at the heart of the project "Supporting Preparedness on Article 6 cooperation" (SPAR6C). In the corresponding article, the authors present the project's new support formats and provide an outlook on future capacity-building measures that empower countries to participate in Article 6.

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