The Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) has the potential to drive meaningful climate action, from protecting forests to scaling carbon removal technologies. However, inconsistent standards, data opacity, and market fragmentation undermine its effectiveness. Buyers struggle to evaluate credit quality due to incomplete and inaccessible project data, while developers face conflicting and duplicative reporting demands. Verifiers, meanwhile, work with static, inconsistent datasets, making reliable assessments difficult. Without clear, standardized, and transparent information, the market remains high-risk and inefficient.
RMI’s Carbon Markets Initiative (CMI) is tackling these challenges by bringing transparency and integrity to carbon markets. Through an open, standardized data framework and educational resources, CMI empowers stakeholders to navigate the carbon markets with confidence.
RMI is leading efforts to standardize carbon credit data, ensuring that buyers, project developers, and registries have access to reliable, verifiable, and science-backed information throughout the credit lifecycle.
Understanding which carbon credits provide real impact is daunting. RMI provides the knowledge, tools, and frameworks for data-informed purchasing decisions.
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Email us as carbonmarkets@rmi.orgThis webinar covers the foundational concepts behind the CCDF. The VCM holds huge promise to scale climate finance but is held back by scattered, static, and hard to trust project information. The CCDF creates a common language and standard format to move the market toward more transparency and interoperability.
In this session, you’ll hear directly from early users and project developers who are testing the CCDF against real-world carbon crediting projects. A panel of practitioners will share how structured, standardized, and digitized data adds credibility and impact to projects. It highlights both the opportunities and challenges of building a more transparency and interoperable VCM.
RMI and Climate Collective invite you to a webinar to introduce due diligence tactics that can help buyers find, compile, analyze, and test carbon crediting data with confidence. Join us to learn how to build a data package anchored to climate performance information and how to use this approach to find high-quality credits. We will also discuss how, when, and why a buyer should connect with various data actors in the VCM to secure, screen, and vet data about projects and credits.