Energy transition
2026-04-26
12 min read
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Voluntary Carbon Market Reset: Integrity, Tiers, and the Removal Pivot
ICVCM Core Carbon Principles, VCMI Claims Code 2.0, SBTi Beyond Value Chain Mitigation, and Article 6 are bifurcating a market that crashed from 192 megatonnes in 2022 to roughly 95 megatonnes in 2024.
The voluntary carbon market spent 2024 and 2025 in an integrity reset that no buyer can ignore. The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market published its first Core Carbon Principles assessments in mid 2024, rejecting the entire first batch of REDD+ project methodologies, partially approving Afforestation, Reforestation and Reve...