Land management has important implications for climate change, making it essential to monitor it transparently. Increased transparency helps to improve decisions, accountability, and responsibility of all actors.
At the same time data policies advocating for full, free, and open-access satellite
The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has released new scores for the integrity risks of carbon credits from improved forest management (IFM) projects. We find that unrealistic baselines and underestimated leakage are likely to lead to significant overestimation of emission reductions or removals under all assessed methodologies. The likelihood of additionality depends strongly on the forest management practices that are implemented. The sustainable development benefits are more limited compared to most other project types.
carbon markets, a well-established principle is that projects should provide the same
The Carbon Credit Quality Initiative (CCQI) has released new scores for the integrity risks of carbon credits from improved forest management (IFM) projects. We find that unrealistic baselines and underestimated leakage are likely to lead to significant overestimation of emission reductions or removals under all assessed methodologies. The likelihood of additionality depends strongly on the forest management practices that are implemented. The sustainable development benefits are more limited compared to most other project types.
carbon markets, a well-established principle is that projects should provide the same
Land management has important implications for climate change, making it essential to monitor it transparently. Increased transparency helps to improve decisions, accountability, and responsibility of all actors.
At the same time data policies advocating for full, free, and open-access satellite
Tangible results are hard to find. Countries failed to agree on a clear roadmap for enhancing the ambition of climate targets in 2020 and delayed several important decisions, in particular rules for international carbon market mechanisms. In this blog, the Oeko-Institut team provides a viewpoint from inside the negotiations.
this universe, countries have fundamentally divergent views and perceptions of the same
Is the Social Climate Fund of the EU designed to fulfill his promise? The aim is to address any social impacts that arise from the new system of emissions trading to the buildings and road transport sectors.
At the same time emissions are reduced so that less compensation (direct income support
At the same time, however, forests themselves can be carbon stores and help to reduce
In March and April 2025, the European Commission presented revised methodologies for the European Union’s Carbon Removal Certification Framework (CRCF). The methodologies continue to set a much lower standard than the Paris Agreement Crediting Mechanism and best practice in the voluntary carbon market. If the European Commission does not fundamentally improve these methodologies, the vast majority of CRCF units will not represent any actual emission reductions or removals. We explain why.
If the EU does not change its course of action, the same fate could happen to CRCF
Dr. Allison Macfarlane ist eine der wichtigsten Nuklearexpertinnen der USA. Im Interview spricht sie über den Stand der weltweiten Endlagersuche, Faktoren für eine gelingende Standortfestlegung und den Stand der Endlagerthematik in ihrem Heimatland.
The same applies to radioactive waste.
Anke Herold verhandelt seit 1998 für die europäische Delegation bei den Weltklimakonferenzen mit. In ihrem Blogbeitrag analysiert die Geschäftsführerin des Öko-Instituts die Ergebnisse detailliert: Was wurde bei der Umsetzung des Pariser Abkommens bereits erreicht und was muss noch verbessert werden?
At the same time, it was decided that national targets should now be renewed every
