Carbon markets across Africa are developing faster than the governance frameworks meant to oversee them. Land and forest rights are frequently contested, methodologies for measuring impact vary across standards bodies, and government positions on how n carbon revenue should be shared are still being worked out project by project.
Climate and carbon markets
For investors, the risk is rarely the science. It is whether a project's land rights, community agreements and revenue-sharing terms will hold up as scrutiny of the voluntary carbon market increases.
How we work in this sector
We assess the integrity of land and forest rights underpinning a carbon project, alongside the community agreements and government positions that determine whether revenue-sharing terms will hold. This draws on our enhanced due diligence and stakeholder engagement services, applied to the specific integrity questions carbon projects raise.
What clients gain
A clearer view of whether a project's land and community foundations are strong enough to survive the scrutiny now facing the voluntary carbon market, before that scrutiny arrives.
Our clients
Investors assessing the integrity of carbon and land-based projects. Corporates building climate strategies that depend on credible offsets. Development institutions designing programmes that need to anticipate how carbon policy and land governance are likely to evolve.