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Article 6, registry architecture, MRV technology, ESG, and compliance market intelligence from CAS's senior practitioners.
Operationalising Article 6.2 for hosts: from rulebook to registry
The first live Article 6.2 transfers — Switzerland–Ghana, Switzerland–Thailand, Sweden–Ghana — have moved Article 6 from negotiation into engineering. This is what host-country implementation actually requires.
ICVCM CCPs in practice: what the label changes for registries and methodologies
The CCP label is not a static badge. With Adipic Acid, ozone-depleting substances, and new clean-cookstove versions now CCP-Approved, the operational implications for methodology developers and registries are concrete.
The new economics of satellite-based MRV
Open Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 data have collapsed the per-hectare cost of credible deforestation monitoring. Methodology calibration and ground-truth networks — not pixels — are now the binding constraint.
Registry tokenisation: a sober engineering case
The Toucan/KlimaDAO experiment exposed both the real value and the real limits of on-chain registry layers. What remains useful, and what the underlying registry must still do.
Scope 3: from spend-based estimates to primary supplier data
CSRD's first reporting cycle, SBTi's updated FLAG guidance, and the 2026 GHG Protocol Land Sector & Removals Standard have closed the window on spend-based Scope 3 as an acceptable default in material categories.
VCM 2025 in review: prices firm at the top, volumes hold steady
MSCI's 2025 year-end review and Ecosystem Marketplace's SOVCM both show a market in stratification: the high-integrity tier is rising on price and demand while low-quality vintages continue to drag on average pricing.
Compliance carbon entering 2026: 80 instruments, expanding coverage
The World Bank's State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2025 counts 80 operating carbon taxes and ETSs worldwide. China's national ETS expansion and Brazil, India, and Türkiye's progress are reshaping the global compliance map.
MRV platform design principles for ten-year crediting periods
Verra's transition to its next-generation registry and the move to digitalised methodologies have exposed the architectural choices that survive a decade of methodology evolution — and the ones that do not.
EU & UK ETS: why geopolitical shocks reinforce the long-term carbon price floor
Middle East tensions have pushed EUA and UKA prices through a sharp repricing, but the structural architecture of both schemes — tightening caps, MSR withdrawals, CBAM ramp-up and rising industrial hedging — is absorbing the shock and reinforcing a higher long-term floor.